Friedrich Viktor Strauß, from 1852 von Strauß, and from 1872 von Strauß und Torney (

Bückeburg Bückeburg (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Bückeborg'') is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the border with North Rhine Westphalia. It is located in the district of Schaumburg close to the northern slopes of the Weserbergland ridge. Bückeburg ha ...

, 18 September 1809 – 1 April 1899 in

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) was a princely minister, church poet, and

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of Dresden. He had a D. theol. degree from

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, and was known as a scholar of religious history and translator from Chinese. In 1870 he published the first German translation of the

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, and in 1880 the first complete German translation of the

Classic of Poetry The ''Classic of Poetry'', also ''Shijing'' or ''Shih-ching'', translated variously as the ''Book of Songs'', ''Book of Odes'', or simply known as the ''Odes'' or ''Poetry'' (; ''Shī''), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, co ...

. He made a contribution to Germany gypsy romance literature genre with the story of Tuvia Panti, in the tragicomic novella ''Mitteilungen aus den Akten betreffend den Zigeuner Tuvia Panti aus Ungarn'' (1871).Nicholas Saul ''Gypsies and Orientalism in German Literature'' 2007 1900755882 p.80 "Strauss also wrote a noteworthy contribution to the corpus of German-Gypsy literature, the tragicomic novella Mitteilungen aus den Akten betreffend den Zigeuner Tuvia Panti aus Ungarn (1871).69 Set in large part in a Gypsy's prison cell, ..."

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