Menzel, Wolfgang, German author and critic, born in Silesia; wrote on German history, literature, and poetry, as well as general history, and maintained a vigorous polemic against all who by their writings or their politics sought to subvert the Christian religion or the orthodox policy of the German monarchies (1789‒1873).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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