Lucian Müller

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Lucian Müller (born March 17, 1836 in Merseburg , † April 24, 1898 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German classical philologist.

After studying at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Halle , he lived in the Netherlands for five years , where he wrote his history of classical philology in the Netherlands (1869). Since he did not succeed in obtaining a professorship in Germany, in 1870 he accepted an appointment to a chair for Latin studies at the Imperial Historical-Philosophical Institute in Saint Petersburg . Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , then a student at the Bonn seminar, gave a damning verdict in his memoirs 1848-1914 (Berlin 1928, p. 94):"There was, of course, a private lecturer who was not allowed to be heard, Lucian Müller, who was already unbearable at the time and for whom German soil soon became too hot."

Müller was a student of the methods of Richard Bentley and Karl Lachmann . His treatise De re metrica poetarum latinorum ( 1861 ) became a milestone in the study of the metric systems of the Roman poets (with the exception of the playwrights), and his Metrics of the Greeks and Romans (2nd edition, 1885 ) remained the best scientific summary for a long time this matter.

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Other important publications are (in chronological order):

The most important text editions edited by Müller include (also in chronological order):

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SURNAME Müller, Lucian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Eduard Friedrich Hermann Lucian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1898
Place of death St. Petersburg