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Johann Karl August Musäus
German author (1735–1787) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johann Karl August Musäus (29 March 1735 – 28 October 1787) was a German author. He was one of the first collectors of German folk stories, most celebrated for his Volksmärchen der Deutschen (1782–1787), a collection of German fairy tales retold as satires.
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