Sophus Müller

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Sophus Otto Müller (born May 24, 1846 in Copenhagen ; † February 23, 1934 ) was a Danish prehistoric scientist .

Sophus Müller

Life

Müller's father was C. Louis Müller. Sophus Müller studied philology at the University of Copenhagen and completed his studies there in 1871 with the acquisition of a master's degree. Until 1876 he worked as a teacher. During this time he also worked as an assistant to the Museum of Nordic Antiquities. In 1878 he was employed by the museum and in 1880 with the dissertation Dyreornamentiken i Norden for Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1881 Müller was secretary of the Royal Archaeological Society and editor of the journals Aarböger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed and Nordiske Fortidsminder . In 1885 he became inspector of the museum and in 1892, after the museum had been reorganized into the National Museum of Denmark , secretary of the museum's 1st department, the department of Nordic antiquities. In 1895 he was appointed museum director. In 1888 his two-volume work Ordning af Danmarks Oldsager ( Outline of the Antiquities of Denmark ) was published. His research on the prehistory of Denmark was reflected in his work Vor Oldtid ( Our Prehistory ) in 1897 . In 1921 he retired.

In December 1885 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

Publications (selection)

  • The Nordic Bronze Age and its period division. , digitized from the Danish by J. Mestorf , Jena 1878
  • Ordning af Danmarks Oldsager. Three volumes. Reitzel, Copenhagen 1888 (also Renouard, Paris; Williams & Norgate, London; Brockhaus, Leipzig; digitized version of volume 1: Stenalderen ).
  • Before Oldtid. Danmarks Forhistoriske Archæologi. Det Nordiske Forlag, Copenhagen 1897 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Bo Gräslund: The Birth of Prehistoric Chronology. Dating Methods and Dating Systems in Nineteenth-century Scandinavian Archeology (= New Studies in Archeology ). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York et al. 1987, ISBN 0-521-32249-9 , p. 119 ( Google Books ).
  • The New International Encyclopedia. Second edition. Volume 16. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York 1916, p. 406.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Sophus Otto Müller. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 8, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Sophus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Sophus Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish prehistoric
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1934