Johannes Müller (philologist)

Johannes Müller (born February 12, 1832 in Irmtraut in the Westerwald , † November 20, 1918 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian classical philologist .

Life

Johannes Müller studied philology at the universities of Bonn , Göttingen and Vienna . In 1855 he founded the now extinct Corps Marcomannia Bonn. His academic teachers included Jacob Bernays , Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker and Friedrich Ritschl in Bonn, Karl Friedrich Hermann and Ernst von Leutsch in Göttingen and Hermann Bonitz in Vienna. There, on October 30, 1856, Müller passed the teaching examination for Latin and Greek. He then worked as an auxiliary teacher (“supplent”), from 1857 as a “real high school teacher” in Fiume and Innsbruck (from February 11, 1859). Due to a scientific study of Tacitus , he was on July 7, 1860 in absentia from the University of Tübingen Dr. phil. PhD .

A few months later, on January 24, 1861, Müller completed his habilitation in Classical Philology at the University of Innsbruck . The ministry awarded him the venia legendi on February 15, 1861. Since the summer semester of 1861, Müller held lectures at the university in addition to his work at the grammar school. At the request of the newly appointed professor Bernhard Jülg , Müller was relieved of his teaching duties at the grammar school on June 18, 1865 and entrusted with the holding of philological courses and seminar exercises (since 1870 also with the management of the proseminar). His teaching load corresponded to that of a full professor, but according to rank, Müller remained a private lecturer. His status was only adjusted in the course of the next ten years of his teaching activity: on February 7, 1868 he was appointed associate professor , on August 2, 1870 he received a considerable increase in salary, on April 25, 1873 he was involved in the seminary management on June 11, 1873 he was appointed full professor.

In addition to teaching, Müller was also involved in academic self-administration: in 1875/1876 and 1886/1887 he was dean of the Philosophical Faculty. In 1889/1890 he was rector of the university. In 1902, at the age of 70, he was retired.

Müller's intensive involvement in university teaching and self-administration contrasts with a rather low publication activity. As a result of his preoccupation with Tacitus, he published articles on the criticism and explanation of Cornelius Tacitus in four volumes from 1865 to 1875 . The Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna elected him as a corresponding member.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 24 , 1

literature

• Franz Stoessl :  Müller Johann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 419.
• Robert Muth : The habilitations in Classical Philology at the University of Innsbruck . In: Acta philologica Aenipontana . Volume 4 (1979), pp. 7-21 (on Müller especially pp. 8-11)