page_title: Simplicius Simplicissimus
hierarchical_section_title: Simplicius Simplicissimus
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Frontispiz von Grimmelshausens Roman Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus English: Frontispiece [not cover page!] of Grimmelshausen’s book SimplicissimusTitle&#32;top&#58; &#32;Abenteuerlicher Simplicissimus&#32;&#91;Adventurous Simplicissimus&#93;Caption&#32;bottom&#58; &#32;Ich ward gleich wie Phoenix durchs Feuer geboren / Ich flog durch die Lüffte? ward doch nicht verloren / Ich wandert im waßer ich streiffte zu Land, in solchem Umschwermen macht ich mir bekant / was oft mich betrübet und selten ergetzet, was war das? Ich habs in dies Buch hier gesetzet / Damit sich der Leser gleich wie ich itzt thu, entferne der Torheit, und Lebe in Ruh.&#32;&#91;Like Phoenix I was born from fire / I flew though the airs? yet was not lost / I wandered in water I roamed over land, in such swarming around I made myself known / what oftentimes grieved me and rarely amused / what was that? I put it in this book here / So that the reader, like I'm doing now, may retire from folly and live in peace.&#93;
context_page_description: Simplicius Simplicissimus is a picaresque novel of the lower Baroque style, written in 1668 by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen and probably published the same year. Inspired by the events and horrors of the Thirty Years' War which devastated Germany from 1618 to 1648, it is regarded as the first adventure novel in the German language and the first German novel masterpiece.
  The full subtitle is "The account of the life of an odd vagrant named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim: namely where and in what manner he came into this world, what he saw, learned, experienced, and endured therein; also why he again left it of his own free will."
context_section_description: Simplicius Simplicissimus (German: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch) is a picaresque novel of the lower Baroque style, written in 1668 by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen and probably published the same year (although bearing the date 1669). Inspired by the events and horrors of the Thirty Years' War which devastated Germany from 1618 to 1648, it is regarded as the first adventure novel in the German language and the first German novel masterpiece.
  The full subtitle is "The account of the life of an odd vagrant named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim: namely where and in what manner he came into this world, what he saw, learned, experienced, and endured therein; also why he again left it of his own free will."
caption: Frontispiece of the first edition
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