Andreas Matthäus Wolfgang
Andreas Matthäus Wolfgang (1660–1736) was a German memoir writer and engraver.
He was the son of the German-English engraver Georg Andreas Wolfgang the Elder from Augsburg and brother of the engraver Johann Georg Wolffgang.
He and his brother fell victim to the Barbary slave trade after having been abducted by the barbary corsairs on their way to Germany after having been educated by their father and sold in Alger, where they spent several years as a slave in 1684–1691. After having returned to Germany, they wrote a memoir of his experience as a slave.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Barbary Captives: An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa. (2022). USA: Columbia University Press.
Categories:
- 1660 births
- 1736 deaths
- 17th-century memoirists
- 17th-century slaves
- Writers of slave narratives
- Slavery in Algeria
- 17th-century slaves from the Ottoman Empire
- German memoirists
- Engravers from Augsburg
- 17th-century German engravers
- 18th-century German engravers
- 18th-century German male artists
- 17th-century German artists
- Algerian slaves