Friedrich Konrad Müller

Müller from the Werra.

Friedrich Konrad Müller (born November 14, 1823 in Ummerstadt , † April 26, 1881 in Leipzig ) was a German poet. He called himself Müller von der Werra .

Life

Friedrich Konrad Müller's gravestone from the New Johannis Cemetery is now: Lapidarium Alter Johannisfriedhof Leipzig

Müller was the son of a pastor. He became an apprentice pharmacist in Hildburghausen and went to Heidelberg in the mid-1840s , where he met the poet Wilhelmine von Chézy , who supported him financially and encouraged him to write his first poems. He first studied pharmacy , but then switched to medical school.

Because of his participation in the March Revolution in 1848 , he had to flee to Switzerland and continued studying medicine in Zurich and Bern . In Bern he accepted a position as an assistant doctor. Further stations were Geneva and St. Gallen .

Then he came back to his home in Thuringia in Camburg , Weimar , Coburg and Gotha . In 1869, Müller took part in the opening of the Suez Canal as the Khedive's guest of honor .

In 1871 Müller received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena and a year later an honorary citizen of his hometown. He was probably an honorary member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar .

Works (selection)

• The Freedom Wunderhorn or Rothe Rosen und Schwerterklang . Biel a. See 1850 (poems).
• A German oak wreath . 1857 (poems).
• The midsummer dream . 1860 (narration).
• Thuringia . 1861 (travel guide).
• Leipzig victory song . 1863 (setting by Carl Kuntze )
• Inherited and inherited . 1871 (narration).

literature

• Julius Riffert:  Müller, Friedrich Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 702-704.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 505-506.

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