Otto Müller (June 1, 1816 – August 6, 1894) was a German novelist.

Biography

Müller was born at

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. He began his career as a librarian at the court library at

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and edited newspapers at

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and

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. In 1854 he established the ''Frankfurter Museum''. In 1856, he settled in

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, where he died nearly forty years later, aged 78.

Works

His ''Ausgewählte Schriften'' (Selected Writings) appeared in Stuttgart in 1874 (12 vols.).

Fiction

He early published a series of novels. In 1845, appeared ''

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, ein deutsches Dichterleben'', a novel. After that, he published ''Georg Völker. Ein Roman aus dem Jahre 1848'' (a novel from the year 1848) and other political novels. Subsequent novels are: * ''Charlotte Ackermann'' (1854) * ''Der Stadtschultheiss von Frankfurt'' (1856; 3d ed. 1878), treating of

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's grandparents * ''Der Klosterhof'' (1859) * ''Aus Petrarca's alten Tagen'' (1862) * ''Erzählungen und Charakterbilder'' (1865) * ''Der Wildpfarrer'' (1866) * ''Der Professor von Heidelberg'' (1870) * ''Der Fall von Konstanz'' (1872) * ''Der Majoratsherr'' (1873) * ''Schatten auf Höhen'' (1881)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, Otto 1816 births 1894 deaths Writers from Stuttgart German male journalists German librarians 19th-century German journalists German male novelists 19th-century German novelists 19th-century German male writers 19th-century German writers