Valentin Müller (archaeologist)
Valentin Müller (born September 23, 1889 in Berlin , † October 17, 1945 in Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania ) was a German classical archaeologist .
Life
Kurt Richard Valentin Müller was born in 1889 as the son of the businessman Heinrich Carl Müller and his wife Emma. Wittenberg born in Berlin. He attended the Kölln high school and, after graduating from high school in 1908, studied classical archeology, philology and ancient history at the universities of Göttingen , Munich , Bonn and Berlin . Among his academic teachers, he was particularly influenced by the Berlin ancient historian Eduard Meyer and the Göttingen archaeologist Ernst Pfuhl . Due to his suggestion, Müller turned to archeology in particular. In 1914 he received his doctorate in Berlin with Georg Loeschcke with the dissertation The Polos, the Greek Crown of Gods .
During the First World War , Müller served as an infantryman in Poland. After the end of the war in 1919 he found a position as an assistant at the Berlin Archaeological Seminar. In 1921 he moved to the German Archaeological Institute in Rome as an assistant . In 1923 he returned to Berlin as a private lecturer and was appointed associate professor in 1929. In addition, he represented Bernhard Schweitzer's chair in Königsberg in the winter semester of 1929/1930 . In 1931 he accepted a call from Bryn Mawr College as Associate Professor of Classical Archeology and moved to the USA, where he taught and researched until his death in 1945.
Valentin Müller was one of the first archaeologists to excel both in classical archeology and in Near Eastern archeology . In his writings he dealt with the relationships between the art of the ancient Orient and the Mediterranean countries. The focus of his work was the ancient architecture and sculpture. In his work, Early Sculpture in Greece and the Middle East (Augsburg 1929), he dealt with the formation of types of sculptures from the Neolithic to the Archaic Era and provided important insights for chronology.
literature
- Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton : Valentin Müller 1889–1945 . In: Reinhard Lullies , Wolfgang Schiering (eds.): Archaeological portraits . Portraits and short biographies of classical archaeologists in the German language , Mainz: Zabern 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0971-6 , pp. 244–245.
Web links
- Literature by and about Valentin Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Valentin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, Kurt Richard Valentin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 17, 1945 |
| Place of death | Bryn Mawr |