Chamisso, Adalbert von, a German naturalist and littérateur born in France, but educated in Berlin; is famous for his poetical productions, but especially as the author of “Peter Schlemihl,” the man who lost his shadow, which has been translated into nearly every European language; he wrote several works on natural history (1781‒1838).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Chamillard * Chamouni, or Chamonix