Friedrich Halm
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Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen was an Austrian dramatist, poet and novella writer of the Austrian Biedermeier period and beyond, and is more generally known under his pseudonym Fri
Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen (Friedrich Halm); lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber
Melk Abbey
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Melk Abbey is a Benedictine abbey above the town of Melk, Lower Austria, on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Danube river, adjoining the Wachau valley, that belongs to the Austrian Congregation. The ab
Friedrich Halm
…are now regarded as more significant from a literary point of view than his dramatic writings. Münch-Bellinghausen was educated at the seminary of Melk Abbey and later at Vienna, where he studied philosophy and jurisprudence, and where he began his career in 1826. As a boy he took a keen interest in the…
Melk Abbey
Aerial view of the Melk Abbey and its park
Jesus of Nazareth on the Cross, Stift Melk
West view of Melk Abbey