Maximilian Joseph Franz of Oer

Maximilian Joseph Freiherr von Oer ( born September 30, 1806 Good Nottbeck at Stromberg ( Oelde ); † August 9, 1846 in Erfurt, Germany ) was a German poet and writer.

Life

Maximilian von Oer was born the son of the Westphalian district administrator Clemens Freiherr von Oer. The artist Theobald von Oer was his brother. After private lessons, which he received along with his two brothers, he graduated from the last school year at the Gymnasium in Münster. In 1925 he entered the University of Bonn to study law and Kameralwissenschaften. In 1826 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Bonn. Later he continued his studies in Breslau and Berlin, where he came into contact with Heinrich Laube, Gustav Kühne, August Daniel von Binzer and Alfred von Reumont, of which he was encouraged to writing. In 1929 he graduated in the Kameralwissenschaften in Berlin and returned to his parents back to Erfurt. In 1831 he was employed by the royal government in Erfurt as a trainee. End of 1832, he resigned from the government service and moved to Plaue, where he was mayor from 1840 to 1844. He devoted his last two years of life as a Princely Schwarzburg- Special Hausener Council in Arnstadt completely poetry and history.

From Oer wrote romantic poems and in the Christian-Germanic and Saracenic - Spanish knights and heroes world -rooted ballads and romances.

Work

• Meteorites, 1835
• Ballads and Romances, 1837
• Narratives, 1837
• Thuringia and the Harz with its oddities, folk tales and legends, 1842
• Plaue and Ehrenburg