Carl Muth

Karl Borromäus Johann Baptist Muth (also Carl) (31 January 1867, Worms – 15 November 1944, Bad Reichenhall)[1] was a German writer and publisher, best known for founding and editing the religious and cultural magazine Hochland.

Muth's main accomplishment was founding and then editing Hochland, a magazine with a "supraconfessional" group of contributors, writing on sciences, poetry, arts, and music.

[5] Muth, whom historian David Blackbourn calls a "self-conscious Catholic modernist,"[6] was a patriot, though he never claimed to be a nationalist, and, in a defense of Germany's involvement in World War I, said: "Our ambition is not rooted in a conceited belief that we are fit and destined to lord it over the globe.

Hochland, a Catholic magazine devoted to religion and culture, loosened its strictly confessional attitude and became under his direction a forum for dialogue with other denominations and even with secular thinkers.

[8] The articles he published were to elucidate how art and aesthetics could influence politics and religions, and they never followed any party's line;[9] Among his "friends", those authors who published regularly on Hochland, were such notables people as Theodor Haecker, Ruth Schaumann, Gertrud von Le Fort, Werner Bergengruen Sigrid Undset, Stefan Andres, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Romano Guardini, Max Scheler, Carl Schmitt (until 1930), Peter Wust, and Theodor Schieffer.