Kurt Müller (archaeologist)

Kurt Ferdinand Müller (born February 22, 1880 in Dresden , † June 7, 1972 in Göttingen ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Müller was born as the son of the general practitioner Albert Wilhelm Müller and Anna, geb. Born Künzel. After attending the Gymnasium zum Heiligen Kreuz in Dresden, he studied Classical Archeology, Classical Philology and Art History at the University of Leipzig until 1899 . In 1904 he received his doctorate with Franz Studniczka with the dissertation The Hearse of Alexander the Great . His work gave numerous impulses in science. From 1905 to 1907 he traveled with the German Archaeological Institute's travel grant in the Mediterranean region. From 1907 to 1909 he was assistant to Georg Karo in Athens , then until 1912 assistant to the Athens department of the German Archaeological Institute . From 1912 he was an assistant, in 1913 he received his habilitation, in 1919 he received the title of professor and from 1921 he was associate professor at the Institute for Classical Archeology at the University of Göttingen . He worked on excavations in Greece ( Olympia , Kakovatos , Kombothekra , Tiryns ). After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , on November 11, 1933, he signed the confession of the German professors to Adolf Hitler . In 1937 he was dismissed from his position as assistant, but in 1939 after the death of Hermann Thiersch he was appointed to represent the chair and then appointed as an extraordinary professor. In 1946 he was retired as a professor.

Publications (selection)

• The hearse of Alexander the Great , Leipzig 1905 (= dissertation) ( online version )

literature

• Carl Joachim Classen : Classical Antiquities at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. A lecture series on their history , Göttingen 1989, pp. 95–96, ISBN 3-525-35845-8 .
• Hartmut Döhl : Kurt Müller. In: portraits of archaeologists . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language. Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 202-203.
• Hartmut Döhl:  Müller, Kurt Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 449 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Bulle : Alexander's hearse (PDF; 33.1 MB), in the yearbook of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute 21, 1906, pp. 52–73
2. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 422.