Ludwig Amandus Bauer

Bauer, Ludwig Amandus (Orendelsall nr. Öhringen, Württemberg, 1803-46, Stuttgart), was a boyhood friend of the poet E. Mörike, with whom he was at school in Urach. The two boys were the joint ‘creators’ of the imaginary island of Orplid. Bauer, who became pastor in Ernsbach and later a teacher in a girls' school in Stuttgart, is the author of plays (including a verse trilogy on Alexander the Great and Der heimliche Maluff, 1828, which is connected with Orplid), and a novel, Die Überschwänglichen (1836). His Schriften appeared in 1847.