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Eduard Mörike

Eduard Mörike, German pastor, poet, and academic (died 1875)

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Born
September 8, 1804
Died
June 4, 1875
Zodiac sign
Virgo
Birth year
1804

About Eduard Mörike

Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk songs, while others were used by composers Hugo Wolf and Ignaz Lachner in their symphonic works. Their first daughter Franziska („Fanny“) Mörike (1855–1930) was born a year later. In Tübingen, with Bauer, he invented the fairyland Orplid – see the poem Song Weylas (You are Orplid) dating from 1831. For reasons of health, Mörike retired quite early, and in 1851 became teacher of German literature at the Katharinenstift girlschool in Stuttgart and was given the titel of professor in 1856.

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Eduard Mörike timeline

  1. In Tübingen, with Bauer, he invented the fairyland Orplid – see the poem Song Weylas (You are Orplid) dating from 1831.
  2. For reasons of health, Mörike retired quite early, and in 1851 became teacher of German literature at the Katharinenstift girlschool in Stuttgart and was given the titel of professor in 1856.
  3. Their first daughter Franziska („Fanny“) Mörike (1855–1930) was born a year later.

The world when Eduard Mörike was born

Eduard Mörike was born in 1804. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineLewis and Clark expedition begins
  • Technology milestoneMorphine isolated for the first time
  • World population~920M

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderThomas Jefferson
  • U.S. population6.1M

1804 versus 2026

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Measure18042026
Population6.1M341 million

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