Eduard Müller (philologist)

Eduard Müller (born in Brieg, 12 November 1804; died in Liegnitz, 30 November 1875) was a German educator and philologist.

Biography[]

From 1821 he studied theology and philology at the University of Breslau, where he was a pupil of Franz Passow, then in 1823 relocated to the University of Göttingen as a student of Georg Ludolf Dissen and Karl Christian Friedrich Krause. He later worked as a teacher in Ratibor, where he eventually attained the post of . From 1841 he served in the same capacity at the gymnasium in Liegnitz, receiving the title of professor in 1846.^[1]

Works[]

• Geschichte der Theorie der Kunst bei den Alten (History of the theory of art among the ancients; 2 volumes, Breslau, 1834–37) – considered to be his main work.^[1]
• Ueber Sophokleische Naturanschauung, 1842 – On Sophocles' view of nature.
• Simson und Delilah (1853), a tragedy.
• Karl Otfried Müller's kleine deutsche Schriften über Religion, Kunst, Sprache und Literatur, Leben und Geschichte des Alterthums gesammelt (2 volumes 1847–48, 2nd edition 1857) – A collection of smaller writings by his brother, Karl Otfried Müller, on religion, art, language, literature and the history of antiquity (edited by Eduard Müller).
• Parallelen zu den Messianischen Weissagungen und Typen des Alten Testaments aus dem hellenischen Alterthum, 1875.^[2]

Family[]

• His brother Karl Otfried Müller was a noted archaeologist, and another brother, Julius Müller, was a Protestant theologian.^[1]

Notes[]

References[]

• Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Müller, Karl Otfried" . The American Cyclopædia.

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