Alois Blumauer

Blumauer, Alois (Steyr, 1755-98, Vienna), a minor Austrian poet and a Jesuit until the Society of Jesus was banned in Austria in 1781, when he accepted the post of censor of books. In 1793 he became a bookseller. Blumauer wrote poetry in the elegant manner of Wieland and Bürger. He is best known for a frivolous and indecent parody of the Aeneid (Virgils Aeneis oder Abenteuer des frommen Helden Aeneas, 1783).