Gustav Adolf Müller (writer)

Gustav Adolf Müller around 1894

Gustav Adolf Müller (born May 24, 1866 in Buch ; † September 1, 1928 in Horb ) was a German writer, journalist and educator.

Life

Müller was born as the son of a primary school teacher in Buch near Waldshut , he was a great-nephew of Joseph Beck (1803-1883). He attended grammar schools in Freiburg , Stuttgart and Konstanz and studied literature, art history and archeology for two semesters at the University of Tübingen in 1886/87 . From 1886 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Guestfalia Tübingen . His archaeological interests led to a long trip to Italy in 1887-88. Müller married in 1888 and moved to Munich in 1889 , where he worked as a poet and scientist. His friendship with the Munich writer couple Elise and Julius Beck also resulted from this time . From 1893 to 1897 he was in Strasbourg with Robert Forrer editor of the "antiques magazine". During this time he also worked as an honorary curator of the Goethe collection in Sessenheim . It was in this context that his “cheerful, serious song from the Rhine”, Die Nachtigall von Sesenheim, was created. Goethe's spring dream about Goethe's love for Friederike Brion .

From 1894 at the latest, Müller called himself Dr. phil., although it can be proven that he never acquired this title, from 1892 to 1907 he referred to himself as "authorized representative" of the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig , he was allegedly a member of the Nordic Museum in Stockholm and the Society for Folklore in Berlin and the Orion writers' association, all this information to increase his own seriousness.

He returned to Munich in 1896, where he mainly worked as a journalist a. a. for the Allgemeine Handwerkerzeitung. He later lived in Bremen. He traveled all over Europe (Italy 1893, 1897 and 1909).

In 1917 Müller founded a reform school with boarding school in Leutkirch , which he moved to Crailsheim in 1919 , where he opened the reform pedagogy. Müller was instrumental in founding the Crailsheim Antiquities Association. Due to intrigues and problems related to school politics, he left the city with his educational reform project in 1921. He last lived in Gutach in the Black Forest and died at the age of 62 while staying at the Hotel Lindenhof in Horb.

Müller was an extremely productive and successful writer who, in addition to historical and archaeological publications, created numerous literary works of all genres.

Fonts (selection)

Non-fiction

• Archaeological expeditions in Italy, winter 1887/88. Constance 1888
• Pontius Pilatus, the fifth procurator of Judea and judge of Jesus of Nazareth: with an appendix "The sagas about Pilate" and a list of the Pilate literature, 1888
• Christ with Josephus Flavius. Innsbruck 1890
• Documented research on Goethe's Sesenheimer Jdylle, 1894.
• Sesenheim as it is and the dispute over Friederike Brion, 1894.
• About the early Christian animal symbols from Achmim-Panopolis and in the catacombs, Augsburg 1894
• The temples at Tivoli near Rome and the early Christian private house on Monte Celio, Leipzig 1899
• The Man of the Cave and Stilt Period: A Handbook for Teachers and Teachers, 1904

Literary works

• Nausikaa (play), 1890 (new adaptation 1899)
• The traveling lad's songs in Liebesfreud und Herzeleid, 1891.
• The Battle of Sendling (play), 1892.
• Nornagest. From Valhalla's Last Days (drama), 1892.
• Schnewelin (epic), 1893.
• The nightingale of Sesenheim. Goethe's Spring Dream (lyrical-epic poem), 1894.
• Unprinted material from the Goethe circle , ed., 1896.
• Der Pfeifer von Dusenbach (A love story from Alsace), 1896.
• From Lavater's wallet, 1896.
• Ortrud. A love idyll (story), 1897.
• Heinot. The love of two children of the world, 1899.
• Roman love sacrifice (3 realistic short stories), 1900.
• Bride's Night (4 Real Life Stories), 1902. 1906.
• Fiekensholt's Bride (A Romance Novel), 1902.
• When the gods died (novel), 1902.
• The wild Annsch (novel), 1902.
• The grave on the Rhine (novel) 1904.
• Father Fulgentius (novel by a lieutenant), 1904.
• Iuvenes dum sumus (2 student and love stories), 1904
• Cinderella (novel), 1904.
• Three nights of love (The novel Delilas), 1904.
• From Cupid's travel folder (Humorous Novellas) 1905
• In the magic of the Wartburg (novel), 1905.
• With cross and sword (novel from the Germanic prehistory), 1905.
• Martyrs of Fortune (3 short stories.), 1906.
• Goethe in Constance, 1906.
• Fairytale gold for people big and small, 1907.
• Under the wild apple tree (A bachelorette novel), 1907.
• Crowns of Thorns of Love (A Black Forest Novel), 1907.
• In the Maze of Love (Humorous Bachelorette Novels), 1907.
• Goethe memories in Emmendingen (new and old combined), 1909.
• The dying Pompeii (novel from Pompeii's last days), 1910.
• In the shadow of the Acropolis (2 stories from Hellas), 1910.
• Burning worlds. A German novel from the time of the war of nations, 1916
• The priestess of the Astarot. Story from the time of the Samsons, 1922.

literature

• Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. 6th edition. Vol. 5. Reclam, Leipzig, 1913, pp. 58-59 ( digitized version ).
• Martin Dennert: Müller, Gustav Adolf. In: Stefan Heid , Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology. Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century . Volume 2: K-Z. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , p. 936.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Brechenmacher : Joseph Beck (1803-1883). A late reconnaissance aircraft from Baden . Tübingen 1984, pp. 2-3 .
2. ^ Martin Dennert: Müller, Gustav Adolf. In: Stefan Heid, Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology. Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century. Volume 2: K-Z. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , p. 936.
3. ↑ Müller was also the editor of Bruno Volgers Das Magazin. Monthly for literature, art and culture .
4. ^ Folker Förtsch: The history of the home and antiquity club Crailsheim 1920–1943 . In: Crailsheimer Geschichtsblätter 2, 2009, esp. Pp. 45–48. 53 ( Digitized version ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ). 
5. ^ Message from the Horb City Archives.