Friedrich Wagenfeld was a German philologist and author born in Bremen

Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...

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From 1829 to 1832 he studied philology

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

 in Göttingen

Göttingen

Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

, and subsequently spent several years serving as a tutor in Brinkum

Brinkum

Brinkum is a municipality in the district of Leer, in Lower Saxony, Germany....

. Afterwards he lived and worked as a writer in Bremen, where he died on August 26, 1846 at the age of 36.

Wagenfeld was the author a popular collection of Bremen folk tales titled Bremer Volkssagen (1844-45). In 1837 he published what purportedly was the entire text of Philo of Byblos

Philo of Byblos

Philo of Byblos was an antiquarian writer of grammatical, lexical and historical works in Greek. He is chiefly known for his Phoenician history assembled from the writings of Sanchuniathon.-Life:...

' Sanchoniathon, which was reported to have been found in the Portuguese convent of Santa Maria de Merinhão. However this publication was soon afterwards proven to be a fabrication by several scholars.