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WILHELM MULLER (1794-1827)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 963 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MULLER (1794-1827)  , See also:German lyric poet, was See also:born at See also:Dessau on the 7th of See also:October 1794, the son of a See also:shoe-maker . He was educated at the gymnasium of his native See also:town and at the university of See also:Berlin, where he devoted himself to philological and See also:historical studies . In 1813–1814 he took See also:part, as a volunteer, in the See also:national rising against See also:Napoleon . In 1817 he visited See also:Italy, and in 182o published his impressions in Rom, Romer and Romerinnen . In 1818 he was appointed teacher of See also:classics in the Dessau school, and in 182o librarian to the ducal library . He died at Dessau on the 3oth of See also:September 1827 . Mailer's earliest lyrics are contained in a See also:volume of poems, Bundesbluten, by several See also:friends, which was published in 1816 . His See also:literary reputation was made by the Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten (2vols.,1821–1824), and the Lieder der Griechen (1821–1824) . The latter collection was See also:Germany's See also:chief See also:tribute of sympathy to the Greeks in their struggle against the See also:Turkish yoke, a theme which inspired many poets of the See also:time . Two volumes of Neugriechische Volkslieder, and Lyrische Reisen and epigrammatische Spaziergdnge, followed in 1825 and 1827 . See also:Muller also wrote a See also:book on the Homerische Vorschule (1824; 2nd. ed., 1836), translated See also:Marlowe's Faustus, and edited a Bibliothek der Dichtungen See also:des zq . Jahrhunderts (1822–1827; 10 vols.) .

His poetic See also:

genius was kindred to that of the composer See also:Schubert, who set many of his lyrics to See also:music . Wilhelm See also:Miller's Gedichte were first collected in 1837 (4th ed., 1858) ; edited by his son, F . Max Muller (1868) ; there are also numerous more See also:recent See also:editions, notably one in Reclam's Universalbiblio:hek (1894); See also:critical edition by J . T . See also:Hatfield (1906) . Miller's Vermischte Schriften were edited with a See also:biography by G . Schwab (3 vols., 183o) . See F . Max Miller's See also:article in the Allgemeine deu.•che Biographic; O . See also:Franck, " Zur Biographie des Dichters W . Muller " (Mitteilungen des Vereins See also:fur anhallische Geschichte, 1887) ; J . T .

Hatfield, " W . Mailers unveroffentlichtes Tagebuch and See also:

seine ungedruckten Briefe " (Deutsche Rundschau, 1902) .

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