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MEYR, MELCHOIR (1810-1871)

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MEYR, MELCHOIR (1810-1871) , See also:German poet, novelist and philosopher, was See also:born at Ehringen on the 28th of See also:June 181o, and died at See also:Munich on the 22nd of See also:April 1871. He read See also:law and See also:philosophy at See also:Heidelberg and Munich. His greatest success was the Erzahlungen aus dem Ries (4th ed. See also:Leipzig, 1892), remarkable as an accurate and sympathetic picture of rural See also:life andcharacter. He wrote also tragedies (See also:Herzog Albrecht, 1851; Karl der Kuhnc, 1862), novels (Vier Deutsche, 1861; Ewige Liebe, 1864). and, in later life, philosophical See also:works with a strong religious tendency. Among these were Emilie (philosophical dialogues, 1863), See also:Die See also:Religion See also:des Geistes (1871), Die Fortdauer nach dem Tode (1869), Die Religion and ihre jetzt gebotene Fortbildung (1871), and Gedanken fiber Kunst, Religion and Philosophic (1874). In these works he attempted to develop a Deistic See also:system of philosophy. He was the author of an See also:anonymous See also:work entitled Gesprache mit einem Grobian (1866). See Melchior Meyr. Biographisches, Briefe and Gedichte, edited by See also:Graf Bothmer and M. See also:Carriere (Leipzig, 1874).

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