Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Müller
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl "FWK" Müller (born January 21, 1863 in Neudamm , Brandenburg province , † April 8, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German orientalist .
Life
After attending the French grammar school in Berlin, he began studying theology there in the winter semester of 1883/1884. However, he soon switched to Oriental Studies and studied Arabic, Chinese and Syriac in particular. During his studies he joined the Guilelmia country team . From 1887 Müller was a research assistant at the Museum für Völkerkunde and in 1889 became Dr. phil. PhD . The museum management then sent him on a longer trip to the Far East in order to supplement his theoretical knowledge with current impressions. Müller was appointed director's assistant in 1896 and was head of the East Asian department of the Ethnological Museum from 1906 to 1928. He acquired more and more languages, Japanese , Korean , Malay , Samoan and the Batak language , in order to penetrate the culture of these peoples. He succeeded in deciphering the remains of Middle Persian manuscripts recovered on the Turfan expedition .
"A really great one went with FWK Müller that a century of research only gave him once, a universalist," another Humboldt ", as he was probably once called."
“FWK Müller from the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, commonly known as FWK, seemed to have almost all-encompassing knowledge in the field of languages and religions. There was no language that I found that he couldn't have read with ease. "
Works
From 1904 onwards, Müller published mainly in the papers and meeting reports of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , of which he had been a member since 1907. Some of these studies were published as separate monographs.
Müller turned to Christian, but mainly Buddhist, Turkish literature with his series Uigurica , which he began in 1908 and whose 4th volume was published in 1931 by Annemarie von Gabain from the estate.
literature
- Max Mechow: Well-known CCers . Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, pp. 174 f.
- Hartmut Walravens: Müller, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 381 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Friedrich Weller , Bruno Schindler : Asia Major . Volume 2, 1925, pp. I ff.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
- MUELLER, Friedrich WK , in: Encyclopaedia Iranica (English)
Remarks
- ↑ Today: Landsmannschaft Brandenburg in the CC in Berlin .
- ↑ Ross, Both ends (1943), p. 262; from English
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, FWK |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neudamm , Brandenburg Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1930 |
| Place of death | Berlin |