Siegfried August Mahlmann

MAHLMANN, Siegfried August. b. Leipzig, 13 May 1771; d. Leipzig, 16 December 1826. He was educated at the University of Leipzig. After a period as a private tutor, he became a bookseller and writer, later editing a journal, Zeitung für die elegante Welt (1806-16), and the newspaper Leipziger Zeitung (1810-18). He wrote a novel, Albano der Lautenspieler (1802) and a play, Der travestirte Doktor Faust (Berlin, 1806). His poems were published in 1825, and in further editions during the 19th century. He is known to hymnody as the author of ‘Gott segne Sachsenland’ (‘God bless Saxony’), written in the metre of ‘God save the king’ and first published in Zeitung für die elegante Welt in 1815. This...