Melchior Meyr
Melchior Meyr (born June 28, 1810 in Ehringen , † April 22, 1871 in Munich ) was a German poet and philosopher.
Life
Melchior Meyr was born on June 28, 1810 in Ehringen near Wallerstein as the first child of the wealthy mayor and farmer Johann Georg Meyr and his wife Anna Margareta.
In the neighboring residential town of Wallerstein, his parents first sent him to a private teacher and to attend elementary school, then to the Nördlinger Latin school and, at the age of 14, to the grammar school in Ansbach . The next station was the St.-Anna-Gymnasium in Augsburg , which he left after six months to continue his self-taught education. During his school days he dealt with adventure and chivalric novels as well as the classics of German literature.
At the age of 19, Meyr enrolled at the University of Munich in 1829 , where he returned five years later. In the meantime he had decided to study law in Heidelberg, which he didn't like - his heart belonged to poetry.
In 1836 he moved to the university town of Erlangen , but without registering there. Here he met Friedrich Rückert and Paul Schelling, the son of the great philosopher Wilhelm Schelling . On October 30, 1837, Meyr left Erlangen and returned to Munich.
On December 27, 1840, he arrived in Berlin , the “metropolis of intelligence”. His financial problems - he earned little in contributions to journals - could not significantly change his father's contributions. In 1848, with the outbreak of the German Revolution, he was a sought-after writer of political articles.
In 1852 he left Berlin to relax with his sister Anna-Margaretha in the "Bruckwirtschaft" in Ebermergen . His parents had sold their farm in Ehringen in 1831 and acquired the Neudegg estate near Donauwörth , which they sold again in 1837. Then they also moved to Ebermergen. From November 1855, Melchior Meyr lived in Munich again.
Here he wrote his stories from the Ries and other works, including religious-philosophical content. His work Ethnographie des Rieses , which is still indispensable for regional and folklore studies , was published during this time. At that time, Meyr lived in miserable circumstances at Ottostrasse 2 in Munich, as Emanuel Geibel told King Maximilian II that Meyr was “not a poet”.
Meyr was also a member of the Munich poet group Die Krokodile and the casual society . In the latter was also u. a. Bernhard von Gudden member who died with King Ludwig II .
Melchior Meyr died in Munich on April 22, 1871 at noon.
In August 1873 his monument was ceremoniously unveiled in Nördlingen. The original plan to erect the memorial in his place of birth was rejected by the relatives and friends as well as the commissioned sculptor Konrad Knoll , because the then and now location in front of the Reimlinger Tor ("near the chestnut tree") was "a much traveled path".
tomb
The tomb of Melchior Meyr is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 38 - Series 2 - 3rd place) Location .
Works (selection)
- Fiction
- Wilhelm and Rosina . Munich 1835.
- Tales from the Ries . (4 vols. 1856/70).
- Duke Albrecht . Stuttgart 1862.
- Four Germans. Political novel . Stuttgart 1861. (3 vol.).
- Charles the Bold . Tragedy . Stuttgart 1862.
- Novellas . Stuttgart. 1863.
- Eternal love. Novel . Braunschweig 1864 (2 vol.).
- Narratives . Hanover 1867.
- Same and same. Story from the Ries . Leipzig 1867.
- Dramatic works . Hanover 1868 (with the preface The Danger and Salvation of the German Drama )
- Duel and honor. Novel . Leipzig 1870.
- The religion of the mind. Religious and Philosophical Poems . Leipzig 1871.
- Poems . Berlin 1856.
- Tales from the Ries . 1856–1870 (4 vols., Illustrated congenially by Karl von Enhuber ).
- Conversations with a rascal . 2nd edition Leipzig 1867 (published anonymously).
- The victory of the weak . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 9. 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 47-255. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
- Non-fiction
- The poetic directions of our time . Erlangen 1838.
- God and his kingdom . Stuttgart 1860.
- Emilie, three conversations about truth, goodness and beauty . 1863.
- Persistence after death . 1869.
- The religion and its now required further education. 40 letters . 1871.
- Max von Bothmer, Moriz Carriere (ed.): Thoughts on art, religion and philosophy . 1874 (ed. From the estate).
literature
- Max von Bothmer: Melchior Meyr. Biographical information, letters, poems . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1874.
- Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart : Meyr, Melchior . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 650-660.
- Bruno Golz: Two Swabian storytellers. Melchior Meyer and Hermann Kurz . Hanseatic VA, Hamburg 1925.
- Bruno Gramse: Melchior Meyer. His life and his dramatic work . Dissertation, University of Gdansk 1933.
- Hans Pörnbacher: Meyr, Melchior. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 402-404 ( digitized version ).
- August Ramminger: Melchior Meyer's world of thought . Dissertation, University of Munich 1936.
- Wilfried Sponsel: Melchior Meyr (1810–1871). A thinker on the "dividing line between two world views". In: Markus Würmseher, René Brugger (Hrsg.): Crossing borders between Old Bavaria and Swabia. History, politics and art on both sides of the Lech. Festschrift for Wilhelm Liebhart. 1st edition. Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7954-3118-1 , pp. 295-312.
- Wilfried Sponsel: New Years Lecture of the City of Nördlingen 2010.
Web links
- Literature by and about Melchior Meyr in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Melchior Meyr in the German Digital Library
- Estate in the Bavarian State Library
- Melchior Meyr in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyr, Melchior |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Poet and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ehringen ( Wallerstein Market ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1871 |
| Place of death | Munich |