Reimar Muller

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Reimar Müller (2014)

Reimar Müller (born August 30, 1932 in Jena ; † April 9, 2020 ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Reimar Müller passed his Abitur in 1951, then studied history and from 1952 to 1957 classical philology at the University of Jena . He passed the state examination in 1957 and was a high school teacher until 1959. In 1959 he switched to the Institute for Greco-Roman Antiquity of the German Academy of Sciences (later Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR) in Berlin . The doctorate on the subject of the evaluation of the educational disciplines at Cicero with Friedmar Kühnert and Johannes Irmscher took place in 1963. In 1969 he became department head there and in 1970 he completed his habilitation ( doctorate B ) with Johannes Irmscher, Rudolf Schottlaender and Marie Simon on the subject of Epicurean social theory (social and legal philosophy) . In September 1977 Müller was appointed professor at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (ZIAGA). There he was deputy director from 1980 to 1990 and from 1985 to 1990 head of the Greek-Roman cultural history department .

In 1981 Müller was elected a corresponding member and in 1989 a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. In 1993 he was a founding member of the Leibniz Society for Science in Berlin . At the end of the 1980s, Müller was also a member of the Presidium of the GDR Historian Society .

Scientific work

In the GDR, Müller was an important academic organizer in the field of classical antiquity with an international presence (UNESCO, Naples, Tbilisi, Madrid). He accompanied several major projects of the academy, such as the two-volume cultural history of antiquity , or was involved in them. His research focused on the history of culture and literature as well as the history of ancient philosophy and historical anthropology .

Reimar Müller's academic work focused on:

  • Hellenistic-Roman philosophy
  • Cultural history of antiquity
  • Ancient social and legal philosophy
  • Image of man and humanism of antiquity
  • Literary communication in Greece
  • Reception of antiquities in the European Enlightenment and in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • History and methodology of classical studies

Publications (selection)

Reimar Müller's list of publications comprises over 170 publications, including 16 monographs or independent bibliographical units and 7 editorships of collective and collective works.

  • The evaluation of the educational disciplines at Cicero . Dissertation Jena 1963.
  • The Epicurean social theory (= writings on the history and culture of antiquity, Vol. 5). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972.
  • with Fritz Jürß and Ernst Günther Schmidt : Greek atomists. Texts and comments on the materialistic thinking of antiquity (= Reclams Universal-Bibliothek Bd. 409). Reclam, Leipzig 1973.
  • (Ed.): The human being as the measure of things. Studies on the Greek image of man during the heyday and crisis of the polis (= publications of the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Vol. 8). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1976.
  • Image of man and humanism of antiquity. Studies on the history of literature and philosophy (= Reclams Universal Library Bd. 841). Reclam, Leipzig 1980
  • with Rigobert Günther : Social utopias of antiquity. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-361-00139-0
  • Polis and Res publica. Studies on ancient social and historical thought . Böhlau, Weimar 1987, ISBN 3-7400-0058-9
  • The Golden age. Utopias of Hellenistic-Roman antiquity . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1988, ISBN 3-17-009865-9
  • Epicurean ethics (= writings on the history and culture of antiquity, vol. 32). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1991 ISBN 3-05-001817-8
  • Anthropology and history. Rousseau's Early Writings and the Ancient Tradition . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-003213-8 .
  • The discovery of culture. Ancient theories on the origin and development of culture from Homer to Seneca , Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf-Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-538-07158-6, review in FAZ , March 18, 2003, No. 65, p. L19.
  • Enlightenment in ancient and modern times. Studies on cultural theory and philosophy of history (= Enlightenment and Europe, Vol. 16). BWV, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8305-1540-1 .

literature

  • Matthias Willing: Ancient historical research in the GDR (= historical research vol. 45). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-428-07109-3 .
  • Lothar Mertens : The lexicon of the GDR historians. KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 305.
  • Michael Franz : Laudation for Reimar Müller on his 80th birthday. In: Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society 118, 2014, pp. 217–221 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Reimar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2020