Wilhelm Max Muller

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Wilhelm Max Müller (born May 15, 1862 in Gleißenberg ; † July 12, 1919 in Wildwood Beach (New Jersey) ) was a German-American orientalist and lexicographer . After studying in Germany, the son of the famous Indologist Friedrich Max Müller moved to the United States in 1888 . He taught Egyptology at the University of Pennsylvania . He was also a collaborator and editor of the Hebrew and Aramaic Concise Dictionary on the Old Testament by Wilhelm Gesenius , the Encyclopaedia Biblica and the Jewish Encyclopedia . In July 1919 he died in an accident in Wildwood, New Jersey.

Fonts (selection)

  • Asia and Europe according to ancient Egyptian monuments. Engelmann, Leipzig 1893, ( digitized ).
  • The love poetry of the ancient Egyptians. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1899, ( digitized ; 2nd, unchanged edition, ibid 1932).
  • The ancient Egyptians as warriors and conquerors in Asia (= The Old Orient. Commonly understandable representations. Vol. 5, Issue 1, ISSN  2629-9003 ). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1903, ( digitized version ).
  • Ethiopia. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1904 (= The Old Orient. Commonly understandable representations. Vol. 6, No. 2). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1904, ( digitized version ).
  • New representations of “Mycenaean” ambassadors and Phoenician ships in ancient Egyptian wall paintings (= messages from the Middle East Society. Vol. 9, No. 2, ZDB -ID 208276-7 ). Peiser, Berlin 1904.
  • The Palestinalist Thutmose III. (= Communications of the Middle East Society. Vol. 12, No. 1). Peiser, Berlin 1907.
  • The traces of the Babylonian world writing in Egypt (= messages of the Middle East Society. Vol. 17, No. 3). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1912, ( digitized version ).
  • Egyptian Mythology. In: Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore (Eds.): The Mythology of all Races. Volume 12. Jones, Boston MA 1918, pp. 1-245 .

literature

  • Muller, Wilhelm Max. In: The National Cyclopædia of American Biography. Volume 21. White & Company, New York NY, p. 413 .

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Wilhelm Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American orientalist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Gleißenberg
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1919
Place of death Wildwood Beach, New Jersey