Alfred Müller (folklorist)

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Alfred Müller (born June 11, 1854 in Scheibenberg ; † August 1, 1935 in Radebeul ; full name: Karl Alfred Müller ) was a German secondary school director , author and folklorist .

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Growing up in Scheibenberg in the Ore Mountains , Müller studied philology , in particular comparative Indo-European linguistics, in Tübingen, Göttingen and Leipzig .

After completing his training including his doctorate, Müller received his first position as a secondary school teacher at the secondary school in Reichenbach in Vogtland in 1887 . There the senior teacher met the co-founder of the Erzgebirgsverein , Ernst Köhler . In October 1896 he was appointed to build the municipal secondary school with a Progymnasium in Auerbach i. V. , where he worked as director and professor until he retired in 1919.

In 1920, one year after retiring, he and his family moved into a now listed rental villa (Humboldtstrasse 7) in Niederlößnitz near Dresden (from 1923 district of Kötzschenbroda ), where he devoted himself to his scientific research. Müller died in 1935 in Kötzschenbroda, which was affiliated with Radebeul .

Contemporaries like Hans Siegert called the pioneer of Saxon folklore the old master of Ore Mountain folk research . Müller was the first to collect systematically and on a larger scale "evidence of the Ore Mountains folk poetry [such as] folk songs, small forms of folklore and folk plays (especially Christmas plays)".

Works

  • Folk songs from the Ore Mountains. Annaberg 1883.
  • Saxon homeland . Supplement The local historian , September 1924, ZDB -ID 982931-3 .
  • The Saxon Christmas games according to their development and characteristics. Friedrich Brandstetter, Leipzig 1930.
  • Folk Christmas games from Saxony for house, school and club performances. Friedrich Brandstetter, Leipzig 1930.

literature

  • Andreas Raithel: The researcher of the Erzgebirge Christmas Games. In memory of Prof. Dr. Alfred Muller . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter. Journal for Heimatfreunde, ISSN  0232-6078 , 26th year 2004, no . 6, pp. 18-20.
  • Albert Zirkler : In memory of the folklorist Alfred Müller. In: Messages from the Saxon Homeland Security Association. 14/1935, p. 181 f.
  • Albert Zirkler: In memory of the folklorist Alfred Müller. In: Central German sheets for folklore. 10/1935, no. 5, p. 156 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Written information from the Radebeul City Archives to user: Jbergner on March 26, 2012 based on Radebeul civil status documents .
  2. ↑ 100 years of school history of the Goethe − Gymnasium Auerbach
  3. ^ Brigitte Emmrich: Alfred Müller . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Karl Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Scheibenberg
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1935
Place of death Radebeul