August Stöber

August Daniel Ehrenfried Stöber (1808–1884) was an Alsatian poet, scholar and collector of folklore.

He was born on 9 July 1808 in Strasbourg and died on 19 March 1884 in Mulhouse, where he had worked as a teacher. Stöber composed poetry and tales in the Alsatian dialect, and studied the culture and history of his homeland.

• Elsässisches Sagenbuch. Straßburg 1842.
• Die Lindenkirche. In: Badisches Sagen-Buch. 2. Band. Karlsruhe: Creuzbauer und Kasper, 1846, S. 140–141
• Die Sagen des Elsasses. St. Gallen 1852.

• Ernst Martin (1893), "Stöber, Daniel August", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 36, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 267–270

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