Editing Robert Musil (section)

==Family==
Musil was born in Klagenfurt, [[Carinthia (state)| Carinthia]], the son of engineer Alfred ''Edler'' Musil (1846, Temeswar/[[Timișoara]] – 1924) and his wife Hermine Bergauer (1853, [[Linz]] – 1924). The [[Oriental studies|orientalist]] [[Alois Musil]] ("The Czech [[Lawrence Of Arabia|Lawrence]]") was his second cousin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.virtualvienna.net/main/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=299&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 |title=Virtual Vienna Net – The Great Austrian Writer Robert Musil |publisher=Virtualvienna.net |date=15 April 1942 |access-date=10 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617054722/http://www.virtualvienna.net/main/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=299&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 |archive-date=17 June 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Soon after his birth, the family moved to Komotau/[[Chomutov]] in [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]], and in 1891 Musil's father was appointed to the chair of Mechanical Engineering at the [[German Technical University in Brno| German Technical University in Brünn/Brno]] and, later, he was raised to hereditary nobility in the [[Austria-Hungary |Austro-Hungarian Empire]]. He was baptized ''Robert Mathias Musil'' and his name was officially ''Robert Mathias Edler von Musil'' from 22 October 1917, when his father was ennobled (made ''[[Edler]]''), until 3 April 1919, when the use of noble titles was [[Austrian nobility#Abolition of nobility in 1919|forbidden in Austria]].