TY - BOOK AU - Kortum,Karl Arnold AU - Schnettler,Friedrich TI - Die Jobsiade: Ein komisches Heldengedicht in drei Teilen AV - PT PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - German poetry -- 18th century KW - Humorous poetry, German N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobsiade; Release date is 2014-12-09; Produced by Norbert H. Langkau, Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Die Jobsiade: Ein komisches Heldengedicht in drei Teilen" by Karl Arnold Kortum is a comic heroic poem written between 1783-1784. This satirical work chronicles the life of Hieronymus Jobs, a failed theology student who stumbles through every situation he encounters. Written in Knittelvers rhyme, the poem mocks German narrow-mindedness and student life through its protagonist's descending life trajectory—a sharp contrast to the optimistic spirit of its era. Jobs's story ultimately ends with him working as a night watchman. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47608 ER -