About Eberhard Werner Happel
Lived 1647 – 1690 (aged 42). Eberhard Werner Happel was a German journalist, translator, writer, historian, polymath and novelist.
Eberhard Werner Happel (12 August 1647 in Kirchhain – 15 May 1690 in Hamburg) was a German writer, novelist, journalist and scholar who specialized in multiple disciplines.
Happel wrote fiction and nonfiction. He included many aspects of contemporary knowledge in his many works which therefore had an encyclopaedic form and dealt with historical and current political themes, compilations of anecdotes about famous people past and present, descriptions of exotic regions, and popular treatises on natural science.
Works Der asiatische Onogambo. 1673 Sogenannter christlicher Potentaten Kriegsroman. 2 volumes, 1681 Der insulanische Mandorell. 1682 Der ungarische Kriegsroman. 6 volumes, 1685-1697 Der italienische Spinelli oder so genannte Europäische Geschicht-Romans auf das 1685. 4 volumes, 1685–1686 Der spanische Quintana oder so genannte Europäische Geschicht-Roman auf das 1686. 4 volumes, 1686–1687 Der französische Cormantin oder so genannte Europäische Geschicht-Roman auf das 1687. 4 volumes, 1687–1688 Everhardi Guerneri Happelii Mundus Mirabilis Tripartitus, Oder Wunderbare Welt, in einer kurtzen Cosmographia. 3 volumes, 1687–1689 Der ottomanische Bajazet oder so genannte Europäische Geschicht-Roman auf das 1688. 4 volumes, 1688–1689 Afrikanischer Tarnolast. 1689 Der teutsche Carl oder so genannte Europäische Geschicht-Roman auf das 1689. 4 volumes, 1690 Der Academische Roman, worinnen das Studenten-Leben fürgebildet wird. hrsg. G. E. Scholz, Wien 1962 (Repr. d. Ausg. Ulm 1690)
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Eberhard Werner Happel was born on 12 August 1647 in Kirchhain.
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Eberhard Werner Happel died on 15 May 1690 in Hamburg.
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Eberhard Werner Happel was a journalist, translator, writer, historian, polymath and novelist.
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