Johann Christoph Müller

Map of the area around Pilsen

Johann Christoph Müller (born March  15, 1673 in Wöhrd ; †  June 21, 1721 in Vienna ) was a German cartographer and engineer officer in the Austrian service.

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Johann Christoph Müller was the son of Johann Müller, a teacher at the school in Wöhrd near Nuremberg, and Ursula Luft. His brother Johann Heinrich Müller (1671–1731) was an astronomer.

After Müller, like his brother before, was Georg Christoph Eimmart's assistant at the Nuremberg observatory from 1692 to 1696, he entered the service of Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli . He had made numerous sketches during the war against the Turks in Eastern Europe and was now looking for an employee to make maps .

The first reasonably accurate maps of Hungary emerged from the collaboration between Müller and Marsigli . Until then, the Danube Bend east of Esztergom was not shown on the maps. The first accurate maps of Bohemia and Moravia were also made by Müller. Marsigli was dishonorably discharged from the army in 1703.

About 300 maps by Müller, who was one of the most important cartographers in Austria and Hungary, have survived.

Johann Christoph Müller died in 1721 unmarried and without children.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Müller, Johann Christoph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 19th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1868, p. 373 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Siegmund Günther :  Johann Christoph Müller . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 582 f.
• Ursula von den Driesch:  Johann Christoph Müller. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 422 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Johann Christoph Müller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Johann Christoph Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Astronomy in Nuremberg - Profile of Johann Christoph Müller