PFEFFEL

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PFEFFEL, Gottlieb Conrad, a distinguished German author, was born in Colmar, Alsatia, in 1736, of Protestant parents. He went to Halle in his fifteenth year, to study law. In 1757, he became blind. This misfortune he bore, for more than fifty years, with wise cheerfulness, and became a most useful citizen. In 1773, he established a Protestant school at Colmar, with the approbation of the king of France, in which he educated many excellent scholars. The revolution put at end to the institution. In 1803, he was made president of the newlyestablished Protestant consistory at Colmar, and died May 1, 1809. He is one of the best poets of Germany, in the department of the fable, and tales in verse. His poetical xvorks are collected in his Poetische Versuche, 10 vols., 2d edit. (Tubingen, 1817), and his prose writings in Prosaische Versuche (Tubingen, 1810, 8 vols.). His biography forms the, last volume.