Gottlieb Rabener

Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener (1714 – 1771) was a German writer of prose satires. He was born at Wachau near Leipzig, and died at Dresden.

In 1741 he made his debut as satirist in Schwabe's Belustigungen des Verstandes und Witzes, and was subsequently a contributor to the Bremer Beitrage. Rabener's satires are mainly levelled at the follies of the middle classes.

The papers which he published in the Bremer Beitrage were subsequently collected in a Sammlung satirischer Schriften (2 vols., 1751), to which two volumes were added in 1755.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.