August Stöber

Stöber, August (Strasburg, 1808-84, Mülhausen), a teacher by profession, he edited together with his younger brother Adolf Stöber the journal Erwina, in which he published Oberlin's record of Lenz's stay at his rectory in Waldersbach early in 1778 (see Oberlin, J. F., and Lenz, J. M. R.), which Stöber published for a second time in his monograph Der Dichter Lenz und Friederike von Sesenheim (1842), adding in a footnote that it formed the basis of his late friend Georg Büchner's Novelle Lenz, which ‘unfortunately had remained a fragment’ and for which he had supplied all available material. Like his father D. E. Stöber and his brother, he contributed much towards the preservation of the cultural heritage of his native Alsace, notably Die Sagen des Elsaß (2 pts., 1851-2).