Johann Christian Trömer

Trömer, Johann Christian (Dresden, before 1700?-56, Dresden), at first a bookseller's apprentice, became servant and then factotum to the Duke of Saxe-Weißenfels. He wrote a comic account of his own adventures in a barbarous gallicized German and in rhyming verse under the title Jean Chretien Toucement des Deutsch Franços Schriften (1736). A second edition in 1745 had a new title: Die Avantures von Deutsch Franços mit all sein Scriptures. ‘Deutsch Franços’ has been suggested as a source for Lessing's Riccaut in Minna von Barnhelm.