Ernst Müller (Zionist)

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Ernst Müller during his stay in Palestine from 1907 to 1909

Ernst Müller (born November 21, 1880 in Misslitz , Austria-Hungary ; died August 5, 1954 in London ) was an Austrian Zionist and anthroposophist .

Life

The miller, who grew up in the Moravian region of his birth, wrote in Jewish newspapers as a schoolboy, taking sides with Zionism. In 1897 he first met Theodor Herzl in Brno . In 1898, Müller's family moved to Vienna , where he began his studies and met Martin Buber in 1900 . Since then Müller has written regularly for the Zionist central organ Die Welt, edited by Buber . At the age of 23, Müller then headed the editorial team of the Zionist youth magazine Our Hope . At that time he had met Hugo Bergmann - a classmate and friend of Franz Kafka - who later became a philosophy professor and rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

After his doctorate as Dr. phil. In 1905 (dissertation: Consciousness Problems ) he worked as a teacher in various places, from 1907 in Palestine . A malaria forced him in 1909 to return to Vienna, where he was in the same year to the Theosophical later Anthroposophical Society joined, which he remained until his death connected. In 1910 he met Rudolf Steiner personally, who advised him to work in the library. From 1911 onwards Müller worked in the library of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien , most recently as its vice director. His interests were wide-ranging: from the Kabbalah , to which he dedicated his first book publications after the First World War , to music and mathematics, to his own poetic experiments.

Throughout his life, Müller published in a wide variety of magazines, gave lectures and courses in Jewish and anthroposophical contexts, was involved in Christian-Jewish dialogue and wrote numerous articles for the Jewish lexicon . He also worked as a translator: for example, his adaptations of poems by Chaim Nachman Bialik and the translation of parts of the Zohar, which is still published today, have appeared . He lived in Vienna and after his emigration in 1939 in London , where he wrote one last book. Since 1941 he was married to Frieda Schorr (1900–1995). The estate is in the archive of the Leo Baeck Institute New York.

Works

  • The Zohar and its teaching. Introduction to the world of thought of Kabbalah. Löwit, Berlin 1920; Origo, Bern 1986, ISBN 3-282-00035-9 .
  • Abraham ibn Esra : Book of Unity (= The World Books. Volume 26/27). Translated from the Hebrew . together with parallel passages and explanations on mathematics Ibn Esras by Ernst Müller. Welt-Verlag, Berlin 1921; Online edition: University Library, Frankfurt am Main 2008, urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30-180014287159 .
  • The Zohar. The holy book of Kabbalah. Glanz, Vienna 1932; in the translation by Ernst Müller. Ed. And with a prefix vers. by Gerold Necker. Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-86539-336-4 (original title: Sefer ha-zohar ).
  • History of Jewish Mysticism (= East and West library ). Phaidon Press, Oxford 1946, OCLC 989014789 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Bracker: Humanistic Zionism. In: Info3 . 6/2000 ( scribd.com [accessed June 25, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Directory of the dissertations submitted and approved at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna since 1872. Volume 1. Vienna 1935; Reprint: Kraus, Nendeln (Liechtenstein) 1973, DNB 730 035 247 .
  3. ↑ Extensive bibliography in: Renatus Ziegler: Biographien und Bibliographien. Staff and contributors to the Mathematical-Astronomical Section at the Goetheanum. Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2001, ISBN 3-7235-1112-0 .
  4. ↑ Under the author's abbreviation: "E. M. "
  5. ^ For the first time in 1911 as poems in the Jewish publishing house in Cologne.
  6. ↑ Photography: Frieda Müller's tombstone ( memento from February 26, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ). In: fbcdn.net, accessed June 25, 2017.
  7. ↑ See the online finding aid ( memento from October 20, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Guide to the Papers of Ernst Mueller (1880–1954). 1893-1984. AR 6736. Processed by Dianne Ritchey. In: findingaids.cjh.org. 2011, accessed on June 25, 2017 (English description; scans of diaries, letters, memoirs). -
    Updated version under Ernst Mueller Collection. Identifier: AR 6736. In: archives.cjh.org, accessed on May 27, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Zionist and anthroposophist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Miroslav (city)
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1954
Place of death London