Johann August Apel
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Johann August Apel was a German writer and jurist. Apel was born and died in Leipzig.
Johann August Apel
Gespensterbuch
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The Gespensterbuch is a collection of German ghost stories written by August Apel and Friedrich Laun and published in seven volumes between 1810 and 1817. Volumes five to seven were also published und
Johann August Apel
…was Apel's version of the Freischütz folktale, and it was published as the first story of the first volume of his and Friedrich Laun's horror anthology Gespensterbuch (1810). Friedrich Kind and Carl Maria von Weber drew on this version as the main source for the story of their opera Der Freischütz (1821). On…
First edition, volume 1 title page with an engraving depicting "Der Freischütz"
Frontispiece of the first volume by Johann Heinrich Ramberg, depicting "Das Ideal"