Johann Martin Miller
German poet, novelist, and preacher
Johann Martin Miller (born Dec. 3, 1750, Imperial City of Ulm [Germany]—died June 21, 1814, Ulm, Württemberg) was a German poet, novelist, and preacher known for moralizing, sentimental novels and folk song-like poems. Miller studied theology at Göttingen where, in 1772, he and other students established the Göttinger Hainbund, a group that met to discuss their poems and to further the ideals of friendship, virtue, freedom, love of fatherland, and an interest in Germanic history....