# Daniel St. André — The Adventurous Simplicissimus character guide

> Daniel St. André in The Adventurous Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** St. André, Daniel

**First appearance:** 0136-xx-treats-of-a-trifling-promenade-from-the-black-forest-to-moscow-in-russia

## Who they are

A character encountered in Simplicissimus's later travels.

## In the story

### [XVII: How It Happens That, Whereas in War the Nobles Are Ever Put Before the Common Men, Yet Many Do Attain from Despised Rank to High Honours](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_adventurous_simplicissimus_se/chapters/xvii-how-it-happens-that-whereas-in-war-the-nobles-are-ever-put-before-the-common-men-yet-many-do-attain-from-despised-rank-to-high-honours)

Mentioned as an example of a common soldier who rose to high rank.

### [On What Condition the Huntsman Was Set Free](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_adventurous_simplicissimus_se/chapters/xv-on-what-condition-the-huntsman-was-set-free)

The Swedish commandant who detains the Huntsman and offers him a choice: join the Swedes or face imprisonment.

### [II: How Simplicissimus Found a Better Host Than Before](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_adventurous_simplicissimus_se/chapters/ii-how-simplicissimus-found-a-better-host-than-before)

Mentioned as the colonel commandant in Lippstadt to whom Simplicissimus addresses his packet of letters.

### [IV: How Simplicissimus Departed Secretly and How He Believed He Had the Neapolitan Disease](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_adventurous_simplicissimus_se/chapters/iv-how-simplicissimus-departed-secretly-and-how-he-believed-he-had-the-neapolitan-disease)

Mentioned as the colonel of the regiment Simplicissimus claims to belong to.

### [XII: Of a Desperate Fight for Life in Which Each Party Doth Yet Escape Death](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_adventurous_simplicissimus_se/chapters/xii-of-a-desperate-fight-for-life-in-which-each-party-doth-yet-escape-death)

Colonel Saint André, who along with Simplicissimus's father-in-law, arranges his leave from the army.

### [IV: In What Manner Simplicissimus and Herzbruder Went to the Wars Again and Returned Thence](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_adventurous_simplicissimus_se/chapters/iv-in-what-manner-simplicissimus-and-herzbruder-went-to-the-wars-again-and-returned-thence)

Mentioned as the Hessian colonel who tricked Simplicissimus at Lippstadt.

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