Scheffel, Joseph Victor von, German poet, bred to law, but abandoned it for literature; his first and best work “Der Trompeter von Sakkingen,” a charming tale in verse of the Thirty Years' War, succeeded by “Gaudeamus,” a collection of songs and ballads familiar to the German students all over the Fatherland (1826‒1886).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Scheele, Carl Wilhelm * Scheffer, Ary