Niclas Müller

Niklas Müller ( * November 15, 1809 in Langenau; † August 14, 1875 in New York ) was a German poet and publisher.

Life

He did his training as a printer in Ulm, moved from 1828 to 1830 as a journeyman through Austria and Hungary and then worked in Stuttgart. He was then Printers Cotta. 1837 Gustav Schwab published poems of self-taught Müller under the name "Songs ". This made the young Müller known at a stroke. So he was able to afford a trip to England in 1837 and Paris in order to learn the Holzschnitzdruck. In 1840 he returned, and in 1843 he bought in Wertheim am Main a printing office and published a weekly paper, the Main and Tauber rivers messengers, and the Official Gazette. He corresponded with the likes of Ludwig Uhland. In 1848 he became a deputy in the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Baden, after the collapse he Baden Revolution, he was forced to flee to Switzerland. His wife was able to save part of his fortune and so settled both in 1853 to New York. There he built a printing again ( Nic. miller printing press, 48 Beekman Steet ). Still in 1867 he published a book entitled Newer songs and poems. He died shortly before he was able in 1875 to move to his son to Lübeck. In New York, he is survived by his widow Caroline Müller and a son Gustav.

The Book of Germans in America (p. 373/374 ) mentioned in a German poet and typographer.

Works (selection)

• Songs, 1837, digitized
• New songs and poems, 1867, digitized

In 1874 he published with " The Raven " is a German translation of the famous poem by Poe. The Elegy Written in a Country Church - yard by Thomas Gray, he translated into German and published in 1874.