Joseph Zacharias Müller

Joseph Zacharias Müller (born November 4, 1782 in Ostritz , Upper Lusatia , Electorate of Saxony ; † February 17, 1844 in Glatz , Province of Silesia , Kingdom of Prussia ) was a philologist , teacher and high school director in Heiligenstadt , Prague , Braunsberg , Konitz and Glatz.

Life

Müller came from a simple weaver family, probably of Sorbian origin, and learned this trade himself. He then became a preceptor (assistant teacher) at the local school. From 1793 he lived in St. Joseph Konvikt in Breslau (in 1801/04 Joseph von Eichendorff also lived there ). Since 1803 he studied philosophy at the local university . In 1805 Müller moved to Halle (Saale) , where he studied philology. In 1806 he went to Leipzig for five months and then returned to Halle as a student at the invitation of Friedrich August Wolf .

At the beginning of 1809, Müller began working as a senior teacher in Heiligenstadt in Thuringia (which then belonged to Prussia). At the end of 1810 he went to Prague to the Czech linguist Joseph Dobrowski , where he translated two Old Russian chronicles. From the end of 1811 Müller was a senior teacher at the newly opened Catholic grammar school in Braunsberg, East Prussia (on the mediation of Friedrich Schleiermacher ).

In 1819 Müller became the second director of the new Catholic grammar school in Konitz in West Prussia. From 1829 he was director of the grammar school in Glatz, where he died in 1844.

Müller published works on linguistic, historical and school didactic topics.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Müller, Joseph Zacharias . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 19th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1868, p. 390 ( digitized version ).
• Friedrich August Schmidt : New necrology of the Germans . Twenty-second year 1844, first part. Weimar 1846. pp. 158-163

Web links

• Literature by Joseph Zacharias Müller at WorldCat
• Works by and about Joseph Zacharias Müller  in the German Digital Library