Eduard Mörike (also spelled Moerike) was a 19th Century German Lutheran pastor and theologian as well as a poet, belonging to the Swabian School of poetry. He is the author of the poem, Elfenlied, which was transliterated into musical form by Hugo Wolf in 1888, along with other selections of Mörike's poetry. Another of his works, Eduard auf dem Seil, provided the term, Silpelit, which is used to describe one group of Diclonii in the Elfen Lied series, both in the anime and manga, and the term appears in the Elfenlied poem as well.