Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Müller

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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Müller

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Müller (born February 22, 1830 in Magdeburg , † June 1, 1903 in Breslau ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

CFW Müller attended the grammar school of Our Lady in Magdeburg until March 25, 1850 and then studied Classical Philology in Königsberg . He passed the teaching examination in May 1854. Already on August 30, 1854, the doctorate followed with the dissertation De ritibus ac caerimoniis, quibus Graeci commercia publica, foedera belli, pacisque sanxerunt, deque vocabulis iuris fetialis propriis . He then worked as an assistant teacher in Magdeburg, Stendal and Königsberg, until he was employed as the fifth full teacher at the Friedrichs College in Königsberg in the fall of 1858.

At Easter 1863 he switched to the Gymnasium in Landsberg an der Warthe as the second senior teacher, and in the fall of 1865 as a high school professor at the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin. In autumn 1872 he was appointed director of the Johannes-Gymnasium in Breslau, where he worked until his retirement on October 1, 1897. In addition, Müller worked from February 10, 1896 until his death at the University of Breslau as a full honorary professor for classical philology.

Müller's research focused on Latin grammar, prosody and style. Among other things, he published monographs and critical editions on Cicero , Plautus and Pliny the Younger . His writings were reprinted unchanged in the 20th century.

literature

  • Franz Skutsch : Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Müller . In: Chronicle of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau for the year 1903/1904 . Breslau 1904, pp. 133-155
  • Franz Skutsch: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Müller . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch 8th Volume, 1903 (1905) pp. 257-259.

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