Adalbert Mueller

Adalbert Müller (born January 12, 1802 at Furth im Wald Castle ; † October 13, 1879 in Regensburg ; born Adalbert Franz Xaver Ernst Johann Nepomuk von Müller ) was a German writer and regional historian .

The son of an electoral district judge grew up in Passau , where his parents had moved after the district court was repealed in 1803. He attended high school there and studied law in Landshut and Munich . He then devoted himself to the management of the family property and in 1829 wrote four first local history articles, called Vignettes from the Bavarian Forest .

He lived in Regensburg since 1830, sold the handsome property and gave up the title of nobility. Müller hiked the Bavarian Forest, collected death-tray sayings, legends and folk traditions. He wrote short stories and descriptions of landscapes. For several years he was editor-in-chief of the Regensburger Zeitung , and also an employee of the Fliegende Blätter in Munich.

Together with the architect Bernhard Grueber , but probably in charge, he wrote the epochal work The Bavarian Forest in 1846 , for which he was awarded the Golden Medal by King Max II . In addition to other publications, he worked for the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung .

In 1856 he lost large parts of his fortune due to a guarantee for close relatives. He became editor of the Regensburger Morgenblatt and got a job as a librarian at the Thurn und Taxische Bibliothek St. Emmeran.

Publications

• 1831: Brief history and description of the Walhalla and the market town of Donaustauf
• 1833: sagas and legends of Bavaria in a sequence of novels and ballads
• 1838: Hall of Honor of Humanity
• 1838: Donaustauf and Walhalla (numerous other editions, 6th edition Regensburg 1844)
• 1839: The bee (collection of stories, fairy tales and legends)
• 1839–41: The Danube from its source to its mouth , 2 volumes
• 1842: History of Furth im Wald
• 1844: The oddities of the kings. Bavarian district capital Regensburg
• 1845: Kelheim and the Liberation Hall
• 1846: The Bavarian Forest (Bohemian Forest) (with Bernhard Grueber)
• circa 1850: The Lord's Prayer. Eight arabesques
• 1856: The Danube from the confluence of the Ludwig Canal to Vienna
• 1860: General martyrology or complete calendar of saints of the Catholic Church, containing the short life sketches of all saints and blessed in the main part of the Roman martyrology
• 1863: Brief history and description of the Walhalla and the adjoining market town of Donaustauf
• 1869: Ernst and Scherz (collection of his fiction articles)

literature

• Hyacinth Holland :  Müller, Adalbert von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 511 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Adalbert Müller  - Sources and full texts

• Adalbert Müller in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )