Joachim Heinrich Campe was a German author and publisher. He was born in 1746 and died in 1818. In 1777 he became director of the Educational Institute of Dessau, and afterwards superintendent of the schools in the duchy of Brunswick. At Brunswick he became the head of a publishing house which soon became famous over all Germany, his own works, consisting mostly of books for youth, such as Robinson the Younger, adapted from Defoe, Discovery of America, etc, contributing greatly to extend its reputation. Research Joachim Campe
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