←Author Index: Mu Johann Karl August Musäus
(1735–1787)
German author

Works

  • Grandison der Zweite (1760–1762)
  • Physiognomische Reisen (1778–1779)
  • Der deutsche Grandison (1781–1782), rewritten version of Grandison der Zweite
  • Volksmährchen der Deutschen (1782–1786)
    • "Die Bücher der Chronika der drei Schwestern"
    • "Richilde"
    • "Rolands Knappen"
    • "Legenden vom Rübezahl"
    • "Die Nymphe des Brunnens"
    • "Libussa"
      • Translated as "Libussa" by Thomas Carlyle in German Romance (1827); this edition from Tales by Musæus, Tieck, Richter (1874)
    • "Der geraubte Schleier"
    • "Liebestreue"
    • "Stumme Liebe"
    • "Ulrich mit dem Bühel"
    • "Dämon Amor"
    • "Melechsala"
      • Translated as "Melechsala" by Thomas Carlyle in German Romance (1827); this edition from Tales by Musæus, Tieck, Richter (1874)
    • "Der Schatzgräber"
    • "Die Entführung"
  • Nachgelassene Schriften (1791), posthumous, edited by August von Kotzebue

Edited

  • Freund Heins Erscheinungen in Holbeins Manier (1785) by Johann Rudolph Schellenberg, with additional explanations in prose and verse
  • Straussfedern (1787), unfinished on his death

Works about Musäus

  • Friedrich Hofmann, Ein alter Liebling der deutschen Jugend (1867)
  • Moritz Müller, Johann Karl August Musäus. Ein Lebens- und Schriftstellercharakter-Bild. Nebst einem Anhange, enthaltend einige Gedichte von Musäus. (1867)
  • Franz Muncker & Karl Musäus, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (1886)
  • Richard Andrae Studien zu den Volksmärchen der Deutschen (1897)
  • "Musäus, Johann Karl August," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)


Works by this author published before January 1, 1925 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

 
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