< Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

MÜLLER, FRIEDRICH, called Painter Müller, a German painter and dramatist; born in Kreuznach, Prussia, Jan. 13, 1749. His first interest was in art and in 1778 he went to Rome to study painting, but his pictures were unsuccessful. He wrote: Bacchido and Milo (1775); The Satyr Mopsus (1775); Adam's First Awaking and First Happy Nights (1778); the dramas Genoveva (1808); Life of Faust (latest ed. 1881); the opera Niobe (1778); etc. (Works, new ed., Heidelberg, 1825.) He died in Rome, April 23, 1825.

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