 Extremely proficient in metrical composition, and commanding an inexhaustible fund of drollery, he cultivated with especial success the comical poetic tale, frequently inclining toward frivolity, but teeming with fun.Many of his works have been illustrated by Johann Heinrich Ramberg, a renowned illustrator and painter of the Goethe era.The widespread popularity of Langbein's "Schwänke" (1792, 21st ed.