Walter W. Muller

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Walter Wilhelm Müller (born September 26, 1933 in Weipert , Czechoslovakia ) is a German Semitist . He is a specialist in the South Arabian region and Semitic epigraphy .

After studying Semitic and Arabic Studies , Müller received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 1962 . He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Semitic Studies, completed his habilitation in 1968 and was appointed adjunct professor in 1973. In 1975 he followed a call to a full professorship for Semitic studies at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 2001 he retired . Müller has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1978, a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz since 1987, a member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1990 and a corresponding member of the British Academy since 2001 .

Walter W. Müller focuses on the South Arabian region, especially in terms of language and economy.

Fonts

  • Incense. An Arabic product and its meaning in antiquity, Munich 1978 (special print from: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft, Suppl.-Vol. 15, Munich 1974, Sp. 701-777)
  • with Alfred Felix Landon Beeston , Mahmud al-Ghul, Jacques Ryckmans: Sabaic Dictionary / Dictionnaire sabéen, Louvain-la-Neuve, Peeters 1982, ISBN 2-8017-0194-7
  • South Arabia in antiquity. Annotated bibliography from 1973 to 1996, Rahden / Westf., Leidorf 2001, ISBN 3-89646-682-8

literature

  • Norbert Nebes (Ed.): Arabia felix. Contributions to the language and culture of pre-Islamic Arabia. Festschrift Walter W. Müller on his 60th birthday, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz 1994. ISBN 3-447-03603-6 (pp. XI – XXXIV list of publications)
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 21st Edition (2007), pp. 2491–2492.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Member entry by Walter W. Müller at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz