Melchior Meyr

Melchior Meyr (28 June 1810 in Wallerstein-Ehringen – 22 April 1871 in Munich) was a German poet, novelist and philosopher.

His greatest success was the Erzählungen aus dem Ries (4th ed.

Leipzig, 1892), remarkable as an accurate and sympathetic picture of rural life and character.

[1] He wrote also tragedies (Herzog Albrecht, 1851; Karl der Kuhne, 1862), novels (Vier Deutsche, 1861; Ewige Hebe, 1864), and, in later life, philosophical works with a strong religious tendency.

He was also the author of an Anonymous work entitled Gespräche mit einem Grobian (1866).