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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter (1816–1873)

Müller (mül’ler), Wolfgang, called von Königswinter (fon kė’nigs-vin-ter). A German lyric and epic poet and novelist; born at Königswinter, Prussia, March 15, 1816; died at Neuenahr, Prussia, June 29, 1873. Among his works were: ‘Poems’ (3d ed. 1868); ‘Legends of the Rhine in Ballad Form’ (4th ed. 1873); ‘The May Queen’ (1852), a charming village tale in verse; ‘Prince Minnewin’ (2d ed. 1856); ‘Heinrich Heine’s Journey to Hell’ (1856), published anonymously; ‘Aschenbrödel’ (Cinderella: 1863); an epic poem; the comedy ‘She has Uncovered her Heart’; and in the department of art history ‘Düsseldorf Artists’ (1854) and ‘Munich Sketch Book’ (1856).