The New International Encyclopædia/Mundt, Theodor

MUNDT, (1808-61). A German novelist and critic of the &lsquo;young German&rsquo; school, husband of &ldquo;Luise Mühlbach.&rdquo; In 1848 he became professor of history at Breslau, and in 1850 professor and university librarian at Berlin. He became first known by his Madonna, oder Gesprache mit einer Heiligen, a memorial of Charlotte Stieglitz. Mundt edited, with Varnhagen von Ense, Knebel's letters and posthumous works, and also published Luther's Politische Schriften. He wrote books of travel and romantically historical novels: Carmela (1844); Mendoza (1847); Die Matadore, etc. (1850); and also Geschichte der Weltlitteratur; Geschichte der Litteratur der Gegenwart (1842); Geschichte der Gesellschaft; and a critical Kunst der deutschen Prosa (1837).