Wolfgang Müller from Königswinter
Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter , actually Peter Wilhelm Karl Müller (born March 15, 1816 in Königswinter , † June 29, 1873 in Neuenahr ), was a German doctor, politician and poet of patriotic poetry, popular folk songs and legends.
Life
Wolfgang Müller was born as the son of the doctor Johann Georg Müller in Königswinter am Rhein . The father later moved to Bergheim , where Wolfgang spent his childhood and youth. From 1827 to 1835 he attended the Royal High School in Düsseldorf and wrote his first poems during this time. In his parents' home, who were interested in art, he met the composer Norbert Burgmüller , who died early, and the painters Alfred Rethel , Jakob Becker and Andreas Achenbach . During this time, Müller was in love with the young Countess Stephanie von Nesselrode, a sister of his school friend Maximilian von Nesselrode , and also the daughter of Burgmüller's patron Count Franz von Nesselrode, to whom he dedicated numerous poems. Jakob Becker married Müller's sister Wally in 1838. Throughout his life, Müller had a great fondness for the fine arts, especially the Düsseldorf School of Painting .
At the request of his father, Wolfgang Müller studied medicine at the University of Bonn from 1835 and at the same time sought to establish contacts with poets and scriptures ( Karl Simrock , Ferdinand Freiligrath, etc.). In 1838 he moved to the University of Berlin , where he passed his state examination in 1840 and then worked as a surgeon in the military in Düsseldorf.
In 1842 he continued his medical studies in Paris , where he met Heinrich Heine , Franz von Dingelstedt and Georg Herwegh . After the sudden death of his father, he settled in Düsseldorf as a general practitioner. In 1847 he married Emilie Schnitzler (1822–1877), a daughter of Karl Eduard Schnitzler . A year later he became a member of the preliminary parliament in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt . In 1853 he gave up his medical profession, moved to Cologne and became a freelance writer . In memory of the past 25 years, he dedicated a series of art-historical letters to the Düsseldorf artists and from 1860 to 1866 took over the management of the Düsseldorf artist album of the publishing house Arnz & Comp, which he had edited from 1851 to 1852 .
A disease of the liver prompted him to move to the Neuenahr spa in 1873 , where he died in the same year at the age of 57. He was buried in his wife's family grave at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (HWG, between lit. D + E).
In 1912 a street in Cologne-Marienburg was named after him.
Müller's son Hans Müller also wrote several books, mainly musicological and art historical content.
Works (in selection)
- Memories of Norbert Burgmüller . In: New magazine for music . 1840 - Reprinted under the title “ I only believed in music ”. Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter, Memories of Norbert Burgmüller , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , book accompanying the exhibition for the 200th birthday of Norbert Burgmüller at the Heinrich Heine Institute , Cologne: Dohr, 2010, ISBN 978-3-936655-76-6
- Young songs. 1841.
- Ballads and romances. 1842.
- Rhine trip. 1846.
- Poems. 1847.
- Ode to the present. 1848.
- Germania. A satyrical fairy tale. 1848.
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Children's life in songs and pictures . 1850.
- Children's life in songs and pictures. Schulz, Düsseldorf 1850 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf ).
- Lorelei. Rhenish legends. 1851.
- Adolph Tidemand : Norwegian peasant life. A cycle in 10 pictures. With an allegorical title in color print, designed by Caspar Scheuren . Based on the original cartoons for the paintings made for the Royal Villa “Oskarshall” at Christiania, lithographed by Johann Baptist Sonderland . With a German text by Wolfgang Müller and a Norwegian text by Andreas Munch . Schulte, Düsseldorf 1851; 2nd edition 1852 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf ).
- Düsseldorf artist album. Edited in 1851, headed from 1860 to 1866.
- The May Queen. A village story in verse. 1852.
- Düsseldorf artists from the past twenty-five years. 1854 ( digitized version ).
- Prince Minnewein. A midsummer evening fairy tale. 1854.
- The St. Goar Pied Piper. A small town story in the Rhineland. 1854.
- The Rhine Book. Landscape, history, legend, folk life. Muquardt, Brussels 1855 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf ).
- Munich sketchbook. 1856.
- Poems. 2 volumes. Rümpler, Hanover 1857.
- Johann von Werth. A German equestrian story. 1858. ( digitized version )
- Tales by a Rhenish chronicler. 1860/61.
- Alfred Rethel . Leaves of memory. FA Brockhaus , Leipzig 1861.
- She discovered her heart. Comedy in one act. 1863.
- Four castles. 1864.
- A ride through the Lahnthal . 1865
- From three mills. 1865.
- For quiet pleasure. 1865.
- Rheinbuch. 1865.
- Storybook for my children. 1866.
- The pilgrim in Italy. 1868.
- Through struggle to victory. Poems of time. 1870.
- Wizard Merlin. 1871.
- German artist album with contributions from living artists and poets. Düsseldorf 1871 ( digitized edition of the Bavarian State Library )
- Dramatic works. 1872.
- The Brentano's house. 1873.
literature
- Franz Brümmer : Müller, Wolfgang . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 698-701.
- Joseph Joesten , Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter. His life and the significance of his works for the German people , Cologne 1895
- Joseph Joesten: My heart is on the Rhine. A memorial book for the erection of the Wolfgang Müller memorial in Königswinter. With a selection of Wolfgang Müller's seals , Cologne: Kölnische Verlags-Anstalt 1896
- Wolfgang Hütt: Müller, Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 486 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Paul Luchtenberg , Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter (= publications of the Cologne History Association 21, ISSN 1430-0133 ). Verlag Der Löwe Reykers, Cologne 1959.
- Klaus Martin Kopitz , The Düsseldorf composer Norbert Burgmüller , Kleve 1998
- Heribert Rissel, a Rhine enthusiast on the Ahr. Wolfgang Müller from Königswinter. In: Yearbook for West German State History. 28, 2002, ISSN 0170-2025 , pp. 533-545.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter in the German Digital Library
- Estate of Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter
- Hans Warnecke: Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter and Neuenahr
- The monk of Heisterbach
- Pia Heckes: Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter. Internet offer of the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR), accessed September 8, 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne Street Names Lexicon , 3rd exp. Ed., Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2016/17, p. 844.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Müller von Königswinter, Wolfgang |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, Peter Wilhelm Karl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and doctor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1816 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigswinter |
DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1873 |
Place of death | Neuenahr |