Karl Müller (classical philologist)

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Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller , also in the spelling Carl Müller , Latinized Carlus Müller or Carolus Mullerus , in France also as Charles Müller (born  February 13, 1813 in Clausthal , †  1894 in Göttingen ) was a German classical philologist , paleographer , historian and cartographer .

Life

Karl Müller and his brother Theodor were born as the sons of a businessman. Both studied at the University of Göttingen , where Theodor later also taught Romance and English . Karl Müller received his doctorate with the thesis De Aeschyli Septem contra Thebas . He initially embarked on a school career and was still a high school professor at the high school in Clausthal in 1836 . In 1840 he retired from school and went to Paris as a private scholar . Research trips took him to Spain , London , Rome and Constantinople . He looked in archives for old manuscripts by ancient authors. In France, Müller, who published in French and English , is considered to be the representative of German classical philology there , which at that time enjoyed the world's leading position. Müller was primarily recognized by his publication of the Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum (five volumes, 1841 to 1884, together with his brother (volume 1) and Victor Langlois (volume 5, 2)) and the Geographi Graeci minores ( GGM for short , from 1855 to 1861 , in the series Scriptorum Graecorum bibliotheca of the editor Johann Friedrich Dübner with the publisher Ambroise Firmin Didot ). Although the issue of Fragmenta Graecorum Historicorum was primarily due to the Müller started by careful scientific apparatus greatly appreciated their importance since the processing of the fragments of the Greek historian by Felix Jacoby almost entirely disappeared. The work on the Geographi Graeci minores bore its first fruits as early as 1855 with the creation of a map (tabulae) . It culminated in a map series with almost 50 maps, which was followed by An Atlas of Ancient Geography , which was published between 1872 and 1874 by John Murray in London. In this work, Müller processed not only the philological but also the archaeological knowledge of his time. After Dübner died in 1867, Müller took over his work for Firmin Didots Verlag. Cooperation turns out to be difficult due to attacks from outside, so the Byzantinist Emmanuel Miller accused Firmin-Didot of an anti-French attitude. So there were only a few publications in the period that followed. Since 1869, Müller seems to have resumed his main residence in Hanover . The edition of Geographike Hyphegesis by Claudius Ptolemy , published from 1883 to 1901 - partly posthumously - was for a long time the standard edition of the work.

Fonts

  • Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum , Collegit, disposuit, notis et prolegomenis illustravit, indicibus instruxit Carolus Müllerus, Paris 1841–1884, 5 volumes ( Scriptorum graecorum bibliotheca , volumes 34, 37, 40 and 59) ( digitized ), new editions 1875–1885, 1928– 1938.
  • Diodori Siculi Bibliothecae historicae quae supersunt , éd. grecque et trad. latine par Ludwig Dindorf et Karl Müller, Paris, 1842–1844, 2 vol. ( Scriptorum graecorum bibliotheca , 17 et 21).
  • Herodoti Historiarum libri IX , éd. grecque et trad.latine par Wilhelm Dindorf et Karl Müller, Paris, 1844 ( Scriptorum Graecorum bibliotheca , Volume 22) ( digitized version), new editions 1858 and 1877.
  • Arriani Anabasis et Indica. Scriptores rerum Alexandri Magni [Historiens d'Alexandre], éd. grecque et trad.latine par Jean-Frédéric Dübner et Karl Müller, Paris, 1846 ( Scriptorum graecorum bibliotheca , Volume 25), Reprint Chicago, 1979, ISBN 0-89005-273-5 .
  • Orationes Attici , éd. grecque et trad. latine by Johann Georg Baiter, Ernst Anton Julius Ahrens et Karl Müller, Paris, 1846–1854, 2 vol. ( Scriptorum Graecorum bibliotheca , volumes 27 and 43) ( digitized version ).
  • Flavii Josephi Opera , éd. grecque et trad. latine by Wilhelm Dindorf, Jean-Frédéric Dübner, Karl et Theodor Müller, Paris, 1845–1847, 2 vol. ( Scriptorum Graecorum bibliotheca , volumes 23 and 32).
  • Strabonis Geographica. Graece cum versione reficta , éd. grecque et trad. latine by Karl Müller et Jean-Frédéric Dübner, Paris, 1853–1858 [?], 2 vol. ( Scriptorum Graecorum bibliotheca , Volume 41) ( digitized version ).
  • Geographi Graeci minores. Tabulae in Geographos graecos minores instructae, pars prima , Paris, 1855 ( Scriptorum graecorum bibliotheca , Volume 45) ( digitized ), Reprint Hildesheim, 1965 and 1990, ISBN 3-487-09220-4 , for Volume 3 ISBN 3-487-09217 -4
  • Geographi Graeci minores, e codicibus recognovit, prolegomenis annotatione indicibus instruxit tabulis aeri incisis illustravit , vol. 1, éd. grecque et trad. latine par Karl Müller, Paris, 1855 ( Scriptorum graecorum bibliotheca , volume 44) ( digitized , digitized , digitized ), Reprint Hildesheim, 1965 et 1990, ISBN 3-487-09218-2 .
  • Geographi Graeci minores , vol. 2, éd. grecque et trad. latine par Karl Müller, Paris, 1861 ( Scriptorum graecorum bibliotheca , Volume 54) ( digitized version , digitized version ), Reprint Hildesheim, 1965 and 1990, ISBN 3-487-09219-0
  • Claudii Ptolemaei geographia [Books 1–5], éd. grecque et trad. latine by Karl Müller puis by Curt Theodor Fischer, Paris, 1883–1901, 2 vol. ( Scriptorum Graecorum bibliotheca , volumes 65 and 68).
  • Claudii Ptolemaei Geographia. Tabulae XXXVI , Paris, 1901.

literature

  • Conrad Bursian : History of Classical Philology in Germany . Volume 2, Munich 1883, pp. 898-899
  • Louis de Mas-Latrie: Geographi Graeci minores, ed. C. Müller , In: Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes 16, Paris 1855, pp. 359-362 ( digitized , digitized , digitized ).
  • Armand d'Avezac: Grands et petits géographes grecs et latins, esquisse bibliographique des collections qui ont été publiées, entreprises ou projetées, et revue critique du volume des Petits géographes Grecs, avec notes et prolégomènes de M. Charles Müller, compris dans la Bibliothèque des auteurs grecs de M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot , Paris 1856 ( Nouvelles annales des voyages , March – May 1856 edition) ( digitized version ).
  • Aubrey Diller : The tradition of the minor Greek geographers , New York, Lancaster, Oxford 1952 ( Philological monographs , Volume 14)
  • Raoul Baladié: Pour une nouvelle édition des Géographes grecs mineurs , dans Cahiers du Center Georges Radet , Talence 1982, pp. 1-14.
  • Pierre Petitmengin: Deux têtes de pont de la philologie allemande en France. Le “Thesaurus Lingua Graeca” et la “Bibliothèque des auteurs grecs” (1830-1867) , In: Philology and Hermeneutics in the 19th Century , Volume 2, Göttingen 1983, pp. 76-107.
  • Richard JA Talbert, Mapping the Classical World. Major atlases and map series 1872-1990 , In: Journal of Roman archeology , 1992, pp. 5-38.
  • Richard JA Talbert: Carl Müller (1813-1894), S. Jacobs, and the making of classical maps in Paris for John Murray , In: Imago mundi , Volume 46 (1994), pp. 128-150 ( digitized ).
  • Didier Marcotte (Editor): Les Géographes grecs. Tome I, Introduction générale. Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre , Paris 2000, ISBN 2-251-00487-4 (Association Guillaume Budé, volume 403)
  • Patrick Counillon, La geographie grecque et la guerre [Presentation of the grandes étapes de l'histoire de la geographie grecque. Introduction au master] , Bordeaux 2007 ( pdf , French).

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Müller  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New year books for philology and pedagogy. Volume 20, p. 468 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Carl; Müller, Karl Wilhelm Ludwig; Müller, Carl Wilhelm Ludwig; Müller, Charles (French); Müller, Carlus (Latinized); Mullerus, Carolus (Latinized)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist, palaeographer, historian and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Clausthal
DATE OF DEATH 1894
Place of death Goettingen