Johann Michael Moscherosch

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Johann Michael Moscherosch (1601-1669), German satirist and moralist, was born at Willstädt, on the Upper Rhine near Strasbourg, on 5 March 1601. His bitterly brilliant but partisan writings graphically describe life in a Germany ravaged by the Thirty Years' War (1618–48). His satires, which at times are tedious, also show an overwhelming moral zeal added to a sense of mission.

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