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Niclas Müller (born in Langenau, near Ulm, Germany, in 15 November 1809; died in New York City, 14 August 1875) was a German-American poet.
In 1823 he was apprenticed to a printer, and after learning this trade thoroughly settled in Stuttgart. Many of his poems appeared 1834-47 in Lieder eines Autodidakten, and a collection was published in 1837. He took part in the revolutionary movements of 1848, was forced to flee to Switzerland, and in 1853 came to New York City, where he bought a printing office. In the period of the Civil War, he published Zehn gepanzerte Sonette (“Ten armored sonnets,” New York, 1862), and a volume of poems entitled Neuere Gedichte (“Latest poems,” 1867). During the Franco-Prussian War he published a collection of patriotic poems, Frische Blätter auf die Wunden deutscher Krieger (“Fresh leaves on the wounds of German fighters”). In 1874 he retired from the printing business. At the time of his death, he was preparing a complete edition of his poems.