Meister, Wilhelm, a great work of Goethe's, fraught with world-wisdom, the hero of which of the name represents a man who is led, in these very days, by a higher hand than he is aware of to his appointed destiny.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest * Meistersängers