August Müller (Orientalist)

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Friedrich August Müller (born December 3, 1848 in Stettin , † September 12, 1892 in Königsberg ) was a German orientalist .

Life

The son of the sugar manufacturer Richard Müller and his wife Dorothee Rosalie Helle studied classical philology at the universities of Halle and Leipzig from 1864 to 1868 . At the latter he was the pupil of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer . In 1868, Müller completed his studies with a thesis on Mu'allaqua des Imruulquais .

He then became a teacher for a short time at the grammar school in Neuruppin and at the orphanage in Halle . In 1870 he completed his habilitation with research on Hebrew accents . In the same year he got a job as a private lecturer at the University of Halle.

Four years later, Müller accepted a position as associate professor at the University of Königsberg . In 1877 he married Marie Kier, with whom he had four children. His youngest son was the economist, lawyer and statistician Johannes (1889–1946).

1882 was promoted to full professor Müller, 1888, he served as editor of the Qur'an in the translation of Friedrich Rückert . This circumstance and Müller's special knowledge gave rise to the suspicion that he had re-translated the Koran himself under the pseudonym “Max Henning”. Evidence of this is still missing today. Incidentally, the orientalist Max Henning (1861–1927) published further works after Müller's death.

After some preparatory work, Müller founded the Oriental Bibliography in 1887 , which existed until 1928. In 1889 he accepted a new appointment at the University of Halle. He edited the fourth and fifth editions of the Arab. Grammar by Carl Paul Caspari and edited the History of the Doctors by Ibn Abi Useiba in Arabic.

Fonts (selection)

  • Imruulkaisi Mu'allaka commentario critico illustrata. Metzger & Wittig, Halle 1868.
  • as editor: Ibn abī Uṣaibiʿa, ʿUyūn al-Anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ. 2 volumes. Self-published by Müller, Kairo / Königsberg 1882–1884.
  • Islam in the Orient and Occident (= general history in individual representations . History of the Middle Ages. 4). 2 volumes. Grote, Berlin 1885–1887.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The Koran. Translated in extract by Friedrich Rückert . Edited by August Müller. JD Sauerländers Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1888, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 3: 5-15755 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Friedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1892
Place of death Koenigsberg