August Friedrich Ernst Langbein

August Friedrich Ernst Langbein (6 September 1757 in Radeberg, Saxony – 2 January 1835 in Berlin) was a German humor writer.

[1] Extremely proficient in metrical composition, and commanding an inexhaustible fund of drollery, he cultivated with especial success the comical poetic tale, frequently inclining toward frivolity, but teeming with fun.

1888) was almost equaled by that of his merry tales in prose, such as Thomas Kellerwurm (1806), Magister Zimpels Brautfahrt, and others, distinguished for inventive faculty and pleasing diction.

His writing was inventive and showed talent for humor and verse, but completely lacked the poet's touch.

While he was much read with enjoyment by the public of the 1820s, this speaks more against the times than against the writer, who was very conscious of his shortcomings.