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Wilhelm Raabe (Jacob Corvinus) (1831–1910)
Raabe, Wilhelm (rä’bė). A German novelist; born at Eschershausen, Brunswick, Sept. 8, 1831; died in 1910. He is distinguished as a humorist among German novelists of the nineteenth century. His principal works are: ‘The Chronicle of the Sperlingsgasse’ (1857); ‘Woodland Folk’ (1863); ‘The Hunger Pastor’ (1864); ‘Horacker’ (1876); ‘Wunnigel’ (1879); ‘The Horn of Wanza’; ‘The Lar’; ‘Cloister of Lugan.’