Franz Xaver von Schönwerth

Franz Xaver von Schönwerth was a Bavarian complier of fairy
tales and folk stories. He travelled to breadth of Bavaria writing down the
stories of the local people. In all he complied around 500 Fairy Tales but
until this day the only surviving copy of his works was “From the Upper
Palatinate—Customs and Legends” this was until a great deal of his works was
discovered in an archive in 2009.Category:Rediscovered Literature