Rudolph Erich Raspe

A native of Hanover who studied law at Göttingen and Leipzig, he began his professional life as a university librarian before securing a secretarial post at the Göttingen library and later a professorship in Cassel. His scholarly versatility earned him election to the Royal Society after a zoological paper appeared in its Philosophical Transactions, though the same year he was expelled for fraudul… Read more

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