Konrad Müller (classical philologist)

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Konrad Müller (born November 12, 1920 in Biel ; † March 31, 2015 ) was a Swiss classical philologist .

Life

Konrad Müller attended the municipal grammar school in Bern and studied classical philology at the universities of Bern and Basel from 1939 to 1946 . After the teaching examination, he worked from 1947 to 1951 as an employee in the Biel City Library. During this time he was with the dissertation The "copy Humanae vitae" of Uriel da Costa at the University of Bern doctorate (1950, printed 1952). In 1951 he won first prize in the Certamen Capitolinum in Rome.

From 1947 to 1963 Müller worked as a lecturer at the University of Bern. After his habilitation (1960), he also worked as a private lecturer at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) . In 1963 he moved to the University of Tübingen as a full professor of classical philology . In 1966 he returned to the University of Freiburg as adjunct professor for Middle and Neo-Latin Philology, where he was appointed full professor in 1968 and retired in 1985 . Since 1982 he was a corresponding member of the British Academy .

Konrad Müller dealt with Latin literature from antiquity to modern times. Its editions and translations of the writings of Petronius Arbiter , Quintus Curtius Rufus and the Golden Bull were published several times. He last lived in Spiegelberg near Bern.

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 18th Edition (2001), p. 2182

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Gnomon. Critical Journal for Classical Classical Studies, Volume 87, 2015, Issue 5, p. 479
  2. Konrad Müller (1920-2015) available via Google Cache (link in the source text)