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 at Wallerstein, the first child of the wealthy mayor and farmer Johann Georg and his wife Anna Margareta Meyr.
In neighboring Residenzort Wallerstein parents sent the little Melchior first to a private teacher and to visit the elementary school. Following this, in the Nördlinger Latin School and 14 years in the high school Ansbach. The next stop was St. Agnes High School in Augsburg, but he left after half a year to educate yourself as an autodidact. During his school years he worked out of adventures and romances with the classics of German literature.
With 19 years Meyr matriculated in 1829 at the University of Munich, where he returned five years later. In the meantime, he had decided to study in Heidelberg jurisprudence, which he did not like - his heart was poetry.
In 1836 he moved to the university town Erlangen, without matriculate there. Here he met Friedrich Rückert and Paul Schelling, the son of the great philosopher Wilhelm Schelling know. On October 30, 1837 left Meyr Erlangen and returned to Munich.
On December 27, 1840, he was then in Berlin, the " metropolis of intelligence " to. His financial problems - he earned little of contributions to journals - failed to significantly change the benefits of his father. In 1848, with the outbreak of the German Revolution, he was much in demand as a writer of political articles.
In 1852 he left Berlin to recover to Ebermergen with his sister Anna Margaretha in the " Bruck economy." His parents had sold their farm in 1831 and bought the Ehringen Good Neudegg Donauwörth that they moved again in 1837 and also sold by Ebermergen. From November 1855 we find Melchior Meyr again in Munich.
Here then he authored his " Tales from the Ries " and other works, including religious and philosophical content. Its also today still indispensable for the country and folklore work " Ethnography of the ream " was released at this time. Meyr was then living in the Otto Strasse 2 in Munich in miserable conditions because Geibel Maximilian II explained that Meyr " was not a poet ."
Meyr was also a member of the Munich poetry circle " Crocodiles " and "Forced lots society." The latter was also, inter alia, Dr. von Gudden member who was with King Ludwig II 's death.
On April 22, 1871 at noon 12 clock Melchior Meyr died in Munich.
In August 1873, his monument was unveiled in Nördlingen. The original plan to set up a monument in his birthplace, was rejected by the relatives and friends and even of the commissioned sculptor Knoll, because the then and current location before the Reimlinger Tor ( " the Chestnut Tree " ), but " one of the most trodden path " is.
Works (selection)
- William and Rosina. Munich 1835.
- Duke Albrecht. Stuttgart 1862.
- Four German. Political novel. Stuttgart, 1861. ( 3 vols ).
- Charles the Bold. Tragedy. Stuttgart 1862.
- Novels. Stuttgart., 1863.
- Eternal love. Novel. Braunschweig 1864 ( 2 vols ).
- Narratives. Hannover 1867.
- DC and DC. History from the Ries. Leipzig 1867.
- Dramatic works. Hannover in 1868 ( with the preface, the risk and the salvation of the German drama ).
- Duel and honor. Novel. Leipzig 1870.
- The religion of the spirit. Religious and philosophical poems. Leipzig, 1871.
- Poems. Berlin 1856.
- Tales from the Ries. 1856-1870 (4 vols, by Karl von Enhuber congenially illustrated ).
- Conversations with a boor. 2nd edition, Leipzig ( published anonymously ) in 1867.
- The poetic directions of our time. Erlangen 1838.
- God and his kingdom. Stuttgart 1860.
- Emilie, three talks about truth, goodness and beauty. , 1863.
- The continuance after death., 1869.
- The religion and its now offered training. 40 letters. In 1871.
- Max von Bothmer, Moriz Carriere (ed.): Thoughts on art, religion and philosophy. 1874 ( edited from the estate. ).