Hermann Alexander Muller

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Hermann Alexander Müller (born February 14, 1814 in Bremen , † May 27, 1894 in Bremen) was a German high school teacher , art historian and bibliographer .

Life

Hermann Alexander Müller was the son of Johann Philipp Müller and Catharine Elisabeth Forstner . He attended the Bremen high school until Easter 1832 . He then studied philology at the Universities of Bonn , Berlin and Munich . In 1836 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate and dedicated his work to the rector of the Bremen high school Wilhelm Ernst Weber . Then he taught French at high schools in Rinteln , Kassel and Fulda . In Fulda he taught under the director Ernst Friedrich Johann Dronke and published a publication. From 1847 he became a secondary school teacher in Bremen. In 1859 he was employed as a teacher at the Bremen grammar school. He retired in the fall of 1878. Hermann Alexander Müller was a member of the board of directors of the artists' association in Bremen and its librarian .

His main work is the Biographical Artist Lexicon , which was widely used even after his death.

Publications

  • Panathenaica . Koenig & van Borcharen, Bonn 1837 (dissertation) ( digitized version ).
  • Observations sur les enfants d'Édouard de Delavigne et sur les rapports de cette tragédie au Richard III de Shakespeare . In: Annual report on the electoral high school in Fulda 1844
  • Casimir Delavigne : Louis XI. Tragédie en 5 actes et en vers . Edited by Hermann Alexander Müller. Carl Hochhausen, Jena 1844
  • French grammar. Third section: Syntactic contributions . Carl Hochhausen, Jena 1849 ( digitized ).
  • French reading book for the middle classes in high schools. With special consideration of the editor's French grammar . 2nd improved edition Mauke, Jena 1853
  • Germany's medieval church buildings. According to the alphabetical order of their places . TO Weigel, Leipzig 1856 ( digitized version ).
  • Map of the medieval church architecture in Germany . TO Weigel, Leipzig 1856 Heidelberg historical holdings digital
  • The museums and works of art in Germany. A handbook for travelers and converts. First part: Northern Germany, including the Rhineland as far as Trier, Mainz and Frankfurt . JJ Weber publishing house, Leipzig 1857 ( digitized version ).
  • The museums and works of art in Germany. A handbook for travelers and converts. Second part: southern Germany . JJ Weber publishing house, Leipzig 1858 ( digitized version ).
  • The Cathedral of Bremen and his art monuments. With imprinted woodcuts and four panels based on drawings by the cathedral builder Johann Wetzel . C. Ed. Müller, Bremen 1861 ( digitized version ).
  • The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages in the libraries of the city and the secondary school in Bremen . In: Program of the secondary school in Bremen . FC Dubbers, Bremen 1863 ( digitized version ).
  • The ruins of the Hude monastery in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. With a view and a plan of Kloster Hude . ED Müller 1867 ( digitized ).
  • The baptismal font of Bremen Cathedral . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch . Volume 6, 1871, pp. 26-34 ( digitized version ).
  • French grammar for high schools. In addition to the tasks of translating from German into French . 6th edition Mauke, Jena 1871.
  • Chronicle of the royal court theater at Hanover . A contribution to German theater history . Helwing, Hanover 1876
  • with Oskar Mothes : Illustrated archaeological dictionary of the art of Germanic antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as well as the iconography, costume, armory, building, equipment, heraldry and epigraphy related to the visual arts. For archaeologists, collectors, art historians, friends of antiquity and history . 2 volumes. Otto Spamer, Leipzig 1877/78 (digitized volume 1 , volume 2 ).
  • Memorial book of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and the port cities of Bremerhaven and Vegesack for the quarter of a century from 1851–1875 . M. Heinsius, Bremen 1876 ( digitized version ).
  • Joke and seriousness. An old comedian chats . Helwing, Hanover 1878
  • Biographical artist lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882 ( digitized version ); 2nd edition, corrected and supplemented by supplements, 1884.
  • Lexicon of the fine arts. Technology and history of architecture, sculpture, painting and the reproductive arts; Etc artists, art sites, artefacts . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1883 ( digitized version ; title page ).
  • French painters of the 18th and 19th centuries . Bruno Lemme, Leipzig 1884 (= Classics Library of Fine Arts. Classics of Painting )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Familysearch .
  2. ^ Panathenaica .
  3. Two letters from the years 1836 and 1838 to Friedrich Wilhelm Thiersch have survived . ( Bavarian State Library , Munich, signature Thierschiana I.87).
  4. ^ Observations sur les enfants d'Édouard de Delavigne et sur les rapports de cette tragédie au Richard III de Shakespeare .
  5. ^ For example, in the six-volume editions by Hans Wolfgang Singer . General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1895-1922.