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August Heinrich Julius Lafontaine (1758–1831)
Lafontaine, August Heinrich Julius (lä-fo
-tān’). A German novelist; born at Brunswick, Oct. 5, 1758; died at Halle, April 20, 1831. He wrote more than 150 novels, and founded a school which in its day was regarded with high favor at the court of Prussia for its tone of illiberal moralizing sentimentality. Among his novels may be named: ‘Picture of the Human Heart’ (1792); ‘Descriptions of the Life of Man’ (1811); ‘The Parsonage on the Lake Side’ (1816).