Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio

Anton Wilhelm Florentin von Zuccalmaglio (12 April 1803 – 23 March 1869)[1] was a German dialectologist, folklorist, folk-song collector, poet, and composer.

His brother Vinzenz Jakob von Zuccalmaglio was a successful writer and poet.

The Von Zuccalmaglio family traced its ancestry to Italians who had settled in the Catholic Rhineland region of Germany in centuries past.

It was one of many in a collection of Volkslieder (folk songs), but in fact Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio himself is the author of "Kein schöner Land".

One of those words is confusing even to some German native speakers, as "schöner" is here a shortened form of "kein schöneres Land ...", ′not one land/country (being) more beautiful ...′.