Christoph Martin Wieland
German author and translator who was one of the most important writers of the German Enlightenment. His comic novel The History of Agathon is considered the first psychological novel in German literature.
Works
- The History of AgathonPhilosophical novel tracing young man's education and moral development through life
- OberonEpic poem about lovers separated by magic and war in fairy-tale realm
- The Republic of Fools
- Aristipp
- Don Sylvio von RosalbaComic novel of noble youth disillusioned by romance in picaresque adventures