Bretschneider

Bretschneider, HEINRICH GOTTFRIED VON, a satirist, of unsettled life and eccentric habits, born at Gera in 1739, from the Moravian Institute at Elbersdorf passed to the Gymnasium at Gera, and at seventeen entered the army. In 1778 he became librarian to the university of Ofen (Buda), and in 1782 Joseph II. gave him a government appointment. He died in 1810. Of his numerous works, including plays and poems, the chief are his satires, Almanach der Heiligen auf 1788 and Wallers Leben und Sitten (1793).