Eberhard Werner Happel

Eberhard Werner Happel

Eberhard Werner Happel (12 August 1647, Kirchhain – 15 May 1690, Hamburg) was a German author, novelist, journalist and polymath.

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