Karl Wilhelm Müller (philologist)

Karl Wilhelm Müller (* perhaps 1801 in Apolda ; † August 5, 1874 in Bad Salzungen ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Karl Wilhelm Müller, who came from a family of craftsmen, attended the city school in Apolda and the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar , where he mainly joined the Greek teacher Ernst Christian Wilhelm Weber . From 1821 Müller studied philology and history at the University of Jena (with Heinrich Karl Eichstädt , Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand , Karl Wilhelm Göttling , Heinrich Luden and Friedrich Gotthilf Osann ). After a semester at the Berlin University , where Philipp August Boeckh worked at the time, Müller went to the Weimar grammar school as an assistant teacher in the fall of 1824. There he taught Latin and German in the middle and upper classes and also introduced gymnastics classes .

At the same time, Müller published scientific and educational essays, lexicon articles and specialist books in Latin and German, for example in 1829 on the epic cycle , in 1831 on Simonides' female poem and in 1831/1832 on Goethe's last creative years. His academic and educational reputation meant that Müller was employed at the newly established canton school in Zurich in 1833 . He also gave lectures as a private lecturer at the University of Zurich , which was established at the same time . In the autumn of the same year 1833 he moved from Zurich to Bern, where, as director of the upper grammar school, he was entrusted with drafting a new curriculum for the grammar school level. Müller also worked as a private lecturer at the academy in Bern. When this was transformed into the University of Bern in 1834 , Müller was given the position of extraordinary professor of classical philology. At the Kirchenfeld grammar school, which was also established in 1834 , Müller was director and teacher of Greek, German and literature. He also continued his literary activity by reporting on ancient manuscripts in the Burgerbibliothek Bern , such as the Greek Codex 160 (owned by Jean Hurault de Boistaillé ) and the Bern Virgil manuscripts, which are responsible for the transmission of the text and the ancient scholia are of great importance. The Bern philology professor Hermann Hagen later built on his work .

The politically heated climate in Switzerland in the 1830s and 1840s made Müller an appointment to his homeland desirable. The opportunity arose in 1846 after the death of Christian Lorenz Sommer , the director of the Rudolstadt high school . On November 29, 1846, the Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt appointed Müller to be Sommer's successor, and after Müller had received his discharge from the service of the Republic of Bern on December 12, he moved to Rudolstadt in the spring of 1847. There he worked until 1868 in connection with several deserving colleagues (including Ernst Klussmann , Rudolf Hercher , Berthold Sigismund , Albert Lindner and Wilhelm Dittenberger ) with great success. Apart from the high level of Greek lessons, which was certified by the Prussian school councilor Karl Gustav Heiland on a revision in 1868, Müller earned himself above all through foundations for special student achievements, including a “Müller Foundation” for achievements in gymnastics and a “Goethe-Schiller” -Stiftung "for German lessons. In the same year, Müller retired after a successful cataract operation, which he spent in Weimar . He died on a spa stay in Bad Salzungen . His written estate passed into the hands of Gustav Emil Lothholz , who handed it over to the Anna Amalia Library in Weimar.

Fonts (selection)

• De cyclo Graecorum epico et poetis cyclicis scripsit eorum fragmenta collegit et interpretatus est Dr. Carolus Guilielmus Müller, Thuringus . Leipzig 1829
• Nonnulla ad interpretandum carmen Simonidis de mulieribus inscriptum pertinentia . Jena 1831 (congratulatory letter)
• Goethe's last literary activity, relations with foreign countries and parting according to the communications of his friends . Jena 1832
• Analecta Bernensia, Particula I: De Boëstallerii bibliotheca Graeca . Bern 1839 (course catalog)
• Analecta Bernensia, Particula III: De codicibus Virgilii, qui in Helvetiae bibliothecis asservantur, specimine varietatis scripturae et scholiorum addito et octo tabulis lithographicis adjunctis . Bern 1841 (course catalog)
• De Brunone Florentino historico saeculi decimi tertii . Bern 1844 (course catalog)
• Commentaria Iunilii Flagrii, T. Galli et Gaudentii in Virgilii septem priores eclogas, nunc primum ex codice Bernensi edita . Rudolstadt 1847 (school program)
• Commentaria Iunilii Flagrii, T. Galli et Gaudentii in Virgilii eclogas et georgicorum libros, nunc primum ex codice Bernensi edita; particula secunda . Rudolstadt 1852 (school program)
• Emendationes Platonicae . Rudolstadt 1852 (school program)
• Commentaria Iunilii Flagrii, T. Galli et Gaudentii in Virgilii eclogas et georgicorum libros, nunc primum ex codice Bernensi edita; particula tertia . Rudolstadt 1852 (school program)
• Commentaria Iunilii Flagrii, T. Galli et Gaudentii in Virgilii georgicorum nunc primum ex codice Bernensi edidit; particula quarta . Rudolstadt 1854 (school program)

literature

• Gustav Emil Lothholz:  Müller, Karl Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 522-524.

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Wilhelm Müller  - Sources and full texts