Note 106 — BOOK VIII[61]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Louis Charles Adélaide de Chamisso de Boncourt (1781-1835), known as Adelbert von Chamisso, a noted German writer and naturalist, of French birth. His parents had taken him to Germany during the Emigration, and he subsequently made Prussia his adopted country. The best known of Chamisso's multifarious works, most of which are in German, is the world-famed Peter Schlemihl, the story of the shadowless man.—T.