Felix Johann Albrecht Mylius

Felix Johann Albrecht Mylius (also: Felix Johann Albrecht Müller ) (* 1717 in Regensburg ; † July 11, 1792 in Sondershausen ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Felix Johann Albrecht Mylius was a son of the Regensburg councilor Johann Ludwig Mylius (born January 24, 1682 in Rupprechtstein near Etzelwang ; † July 3, 1733 in Regensburg). He also had a brother and two sisters.

He attended the Poeticum grammar school in Regensburg, and he received intensive Latin lessons from his father, so that after a short time he spoke the language like his mother tongue.

Despite the death of his father, a family scholarship enabled him to study law for eight years at the University of Altdorf and the University of Jena . After completing his studies, he returned to Regensburg in 1741, but found no prospect of employment. On the recommendation of Count Gustav Adolf von Gotter , with whom he was on friendly terms, he received the prospect of an auditor position in a Prussian regiment. On the outward journey to Prussia , he traveled via Sondershausen to meet Prince Heinrich XXXV. to seek out someone who was known to his parents and, if necessary, to come into their service. The prince could not offer him a position, but should something become vacant in the future, he would hire him, until then he had offered him a free lawyer in his country for the time being.

After a short time this business also provided him with a profitable income. In addition, he won a legal battle in which the future widow of his opponent chose him to be her guardian. Among the papers of her husband were files that dealt with a family affair of Prince August zu Ebeleben , a brother of Prince Heinrich XXXV, who later ruled . concerned, which he communicated to the prince. This led to the acquaintance of the prince, who then appointed him secretary and companion of his two sons when they were transferred to the Collegium Carolinum in 1749 (an educational institution founded in Braunschweig in 1745, forerunner of the Technical University of Braunschweig ). were sent. A few years after their return, the elder, Christian Günther , took over government affairs in 1758 and appointed Felix Johann Albrecht Mylius to court and consistorial councilor .

In 1760 his friend from Braunschweig times, the court preacher Nikolaus Dietrich Giseke from Quedlinburg, was appointed superintendent in Sondershausen. In 1763 he was appointed senior to Frankfurt am Main . However, he was able to persuade his friend to decline this call. He died two years later in 1765, so that, for reasons of conscience, Felix Johann Albrecht Mylius paid the widow and her five children an annual allowance until his own death. This enabled the widow's four sons to attend university to study.

Felix Johann Albrecht Mylius was a translator of the Roman poets Virgil , Ovid , Horace , Juvenal and Aulus Persius Flaccus .

literature

• Felix Johann Albrecht Müller in Friedrich Schlichtegroll : Nekrolog for the year 1792 containing news of the life of strange Germans who died in that year . Gotha, Perthes 1793.