!!!Rasch, Johann

Rasch, Johann, b. Poechlarn (Lower Austria), around 1540, 
d. Vienna, around 1615, writer, organist at the Vienna Schottenstift 
monastery, mathematician, bookseller. In his writings, a rich source 
of Austrian dialect and folklore, he was mainly concerned with 
phenomena of his time (astrology, pseudoprophetism, etc.), his 
"Weinbuch" (1582) is a didactic poem on viticulture in Lower Austria.

!Further works
Nininiter Klag, 1578; Fasten Reim, 1583; Fasten-Lob, 
1585.



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