Wolfgang Müller (papyrologist)

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Wolfgang Müller (born July 10, 1922 in Altenburg ; † October 24, 2012 ) was a German papyrologist and ancient historian .

Life

Müller studied after the Second World War, Ancient History at the University of Leipzig and was at 1950 Wilhelm Schubart with the dissertation The Edict of Tiberius Julius Alexander doctorate . From 1951 he headed the papyrology working group at the Institute for Greco-Roman Antiquity of the German Academy of Sciences . From the spring semester of 1953, following Hugo Preller, who was unsuitable for ancient historical events, on the initiative of Friedrich Zucker, he was initially a lecturer for the history of Greco-Roman antiquity at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . From February 1, 1954, he was entrusted with teaching as a lecturer because he had not completed his habilitation . For nine years he commuted weekly from Berlin to Jena to hold overview lectures as well as special colleges and seminars. Müller took care of the attitude of the ancient historian Detlef Lotze , who taught in Jena until his retirement, and of the papyrologist Fritz Uebel . Until the Wall was built, Müller also kept in direct contact with scientists in West Germany and, for example, placed Helmut Berve as a doctoral supervisor for Lotze. Up to Lotze's habilitation in 1961, Müller was the sole teacher of ancient history at the University of Jena, after Lotze's habilitation, Müller left the university in 1962 and devoted himself entirely to his activities in Berlin. Since the spring of 1960 he was part-time director of the papyrus collection of the State Museums in Berlin , since July 1960 provisional, from 1965 to 1988 full-time director of the Egyptian Museum in East Berlin. There, Karl-Heinz Priese became his successor, who continued to pursue Müller's international orientation. In 1964 he completed his habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Fonts (selection)

  • Papyrus documents from Ptolemaic times (= Egyptian documents from the Staatliche Museen Berlin. Greek documents. Vol. 10). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970.
  • (Ed.): The life of Aesop . Dieterich, Leipzig 1974.
  • with Caris-Beatrice Arnst: Adolf Erman, a great Berlin scholar 1854–1937 . State Museums in Berlin, Berlin 1987.

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  1. ^ Obituary notice from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berliner Zeitung of November 30, 2012, p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German papyrologist and ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2012