Johann Martin Miller

German poet, novelist, and preacher
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Born:
Dec. 3, 1750, Imperial City of Ulm [Germany]
Died:
June 21, 1814, Ulm, Württemberg (aged 63)
Movement / Style:
Sturm und Drang

Johann Martin Miller (born Dec. 3, 1750, Imperial City of Ulm [Germany]—died June 21, 1814, Ulm, Württemberg) was a German poet, novelist, and preacher known for moralizing, sentimental novels and folk song-like poems. Miller studied theology at Göttingen where, in 1772, he and other students established the Göttinger Hainbund, a group that met to discuss their poems and to further the ideals of friendship, virtue, freedom, love of fatherland, and an interest in Germanic history. The group espoused many of the tenets of the Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) movement centred on J.W. von Goethe. Of the three novels ...(100 of 185 words)