Grimmelshausen

Grimmelshausen, Johann Jakob Christof von (d. 1676), a German novelist, whose works give a vivid impression of the social condition of Germany after the close of the Thirty Years' War. Grimmelshausen had himself served in the war, and afterwards strolled from place to place, finally settling down as bailiff to the Bishop of Strasburg. His materials were thus largely drawn from his own experience. His best work is his Simplicissimus (1669).