E. H. (Edward H.) Rauch

Known in print as E. H. Rauch, Edward H. Rauch was a Pennsylvania writer, newspaper publisher, and early champion of Pennsylvania Dutch in written form. Modern editions of his work describe him as the author of a popular weekly Pennsylvania German-language column that ran for more than thirty years under the pen name "Pit Schweffelbrenner," and as an important figure in making the dialect visible to a wider reading public.

Rauch is especially associated with Rauch's Pennsylvania Dutch Hand-Book, a practical and lively guide that helped document a language that had long been mainly oral. Scholarship on the book notes that it gives an especially clear sense of his views on Pennsylvania Dutch and of the range of his writing.

There appears to be some catalog confusion around his birth year: library records for his books often list 1826–1902, while other historical sources for the Pennsylvania public figure Edward H. Rauch give 1820–1902. What is consistently supported is that he died in 1902 and left behind work that remains valuable for readers interested in Pennsylvania German language and culture.