Andreas Heinrich Bucholtz's place in literary history was established by two gigantic narratives that are generally regarded as the first "courtly-historical" novels in German literature. With five editions of Des Christlichen Teutschen Groß-Fürsten Herkules Und Der Böhmischen Königlichen Fräulein Valiska Wunder-Geschichte (Marvelous Story of the Christian German Grand Prince Hercules and the Bohemian Royal Maiden Valiska, 1659, 1660) and three editions of Der Christlichen Königlichen Fürsten Herkuliskus und Herkuladisla (The Christian Royal Princes Herkuliskus and Herkuladisla, 1665), Bucholtz reached an audience significantly larger than either Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneberg or Daniel Casper von Lohenstein. As late as 1744, at the height of the German Enlightenment, a shortened version of Herkules und Valiska appeared, and during the period of Sturm und Drang an anonymous author published a four-volume adaptation of the novel as Die teutschen F...