Christian Reuter

Christian Reuter (born 1665 in Kütten; died 1712 or later) was a German author.

Work

He was especially effective in character delineation. In his L'honnête femme; oder die ehrliche Frau zu Pfissine (“The honest woman of Pfissine,” 1695), he skillfully uses Molière's fable in Les précieuses ridicules. His chief work is the novel Schelmuffskys Reisebeschreibung (“Schelmuffsky's trip description,” 1696), which was edited by Schullerus in 1885, and his other writings include Der ehrlichen Frau Schlampampe Krankheit und Tod (“Illness and death of the honest Frau Schlampampe,” 1696) and Letztes Denk- und Ehrenmahl der Frau Schlampampe (“Last monument to Frau Schlampampe,” 1697), which were republished in 1890.

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References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Reuter, Christian". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
• Georg Ellinger, Theodor Distel (1889), "Reuter, Christian", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German) 28, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 314–318

External links

• Works by Christian Reuter at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Christian Reuter at Internet Archive