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Leonhard Wächter (25 November 1762 — 11 February 1837) was a German writer and historian who often published under the pseudonym Veit Weber. His most well-known work of fiction was Sagen der Vorzeit ('Legends of the Past'), a seven volume idealized account of Germany in the middle ages. The work influenced several 18th- and early 19th-century Gothic novelists in both Britain and France. According to the Germanist James Taft Hatfield, it also had an influence on Goethe's poem "Im ernsten Beinhaus".

References

1. Mendheim, Max (1896). "Wächter, Leonhard". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 40, pp. 428–431. Duncker & Humblot (in German)
2. Hall, Daniel (2005). French and German Gothic Fiction in the Late Eighteenth Century. pp. 22; 120121; 176; 201. Peter Lang. ISBN 3039100777
3. Bridgwater, Patrick (2013). The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective, pp. 83–114. Rodopi. ISBN 9401209928
4. Price, Lawrence M. (Summer, 1959). "Review: Englische Vorromantik und Deutscher Sturm und Drang. M. G. Lewis' Stellung in der Geschichte der Deutsch-Englischen Literaturbezie-Hungen by Karl S. Guthke". Comparative Literature, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 281-285
5. Hatfield, James Taft (September 1921). "Goethe's Poem "Im Ernsten Beinhaus"". PMLA, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 429-435

• 1762 births
• 1837 deaths
• 18th-century German historians
• 18th-century German novelists
• 19th-century German novelists