Josef Alois Gleich (also Joseph Alois Gleich; pseudonyms Adolph Blum, Ludwig Dellarosa, Heinrich Walden; 14 September 1772 – 10 February 1841)[1][2] was an Austrian civil servant, and a prolific dramatist and novelist.
At the University of Vienna he studied philosophy, languages and public accounting, and entered the civil service.
Like his contemporaries Karl Meisl and Adolf Bäuerle, his plays developed the tradition of Old Viennese folk theatre [de].
[2][3] Gleich also wrote about 100 popular novels about knights, robbers and ghosts, modelled on the stories of Christian Heinrich Spiess.
[3] In 1832 he founded a periodical for popular consumption, the "Comic letters of Hansjörgel von Gumpoldskirchen to his brother-in-law Maxel in Feselau with his accounts of daily events in Vienna".