The New International Encyclopædia/Schnabel, Johann Gottfried

SCHNABEL, shnä'bel, (c.1690). A German author, who was known under the pseudonym of Gisander. During a part of his career he was in the service of Count Stolberg, but very few other facts concerning him are known. He wrote some of the best &ldquo;Robinsonaden,&rdquo; or imitations of Robinson Crusoe, that appeared in German, such as Wunderliche Fata einiger Seefahrer (1731-43), Die Inseln im Südmeere (republished 1826), and the famous Die Insel Felsenberg (republished 1827).