Schnabel, Johann Gottfried

Related Category: German Literature: Biographies

(yō´hän gôt´frēt shnä´bəl), b. 1692, d. after 1742, German author, whose pseudonym was Gisander. He fought in the War of the Spanish Succession. Schnabel's popular novel Die Insel Felsenburg [Felsenburg island] (4 vol., 1741–43) was modeled on Robinson Crusoe but was primarily concerned with utopian ideals.