Peter Klaus

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Peter Klaus, the German prototype of Rip Van Winkle, was allegedly a goatherd who slept for the same number of years and at the end had similar experiences. The character is found in Peter Klaus the Goatherd by J.C.C. Nachtigal^{[citation needed]}, a short story set in a German village.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.