Millenkovich, Stephan; pseudonym Stephan Milow
Poet, Narrator, Officer and Cartographer
Born March 9, 1836 in Orschowa/Orsowa (Banat) and died March 12, 1915 in Mödling, Lower Austria. Father of Max von Millenkovich (pseudonym Max Morold) and Benno von Millenkovich.
Stephan von Millenkovich, son of the notable k.u.k. Colonel Stephan von Millenkovich (raised to nobility in 1835) and his wife Maria (née Pausz) came from a family of officers, like other Austrian poets and writers. He and his five brothers were destined for a military career, so he came to the military training at the Cadet School in Olomouc and was already a lieutenant in an infantry regiment in Vienna at the age of sixteen.
He served in the Military Geographical Institute as early as 1854, where he remained throughout its military service. There he made it to the captain. Stephan von Millenkovich expanded the area map of Vienna.
In 1865 he married Elisabeth Maria Josepha Carolina (known as Elsa – née Reichsfreiin von Reichlin-Meldegg), daughter of the Imperial and Royal Commander Joseph Ludwig Christoph Baron Reichlin-Meldegg and his wife Baroness Mathilde Henriette Genofeva (née Countess von Wimpffen).
In 1869 he retired as a captain due to a nervous disorder, which was probably caused by a severe cold while mapping in the mountains of Lower Austria, and from then on devoted himself entirely to poetry.
In 1870 Millenkovich sold his property in Gonobitz (now Slovenske Konjice ) and bought a small farm with an agricultural business (today Georgi Castle ) in Ehrenhausen and settled in Styria with his family, where Ferdinand von Saar often visited him and “the stone knockers Wrote.
In 1873 he went to Italy with Ferdinand von Saar to alleviate his illness. In 1880 Stephan Millenkovich moved to Gorizia because of his ailing condition. At the end of 1899, he and his wife Elisabeth suffered a severe retreat to Mödling near Vienna, where he remained until his death in 1915.
Last updated: 07/23/2025