August Müller (born 3 December 1848 in Stettin; died 12 September 1892 in

Halle an der Saale Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anh ...

) was a German orientalist.

Biography

He was educated in

classical philology Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

and

Semitic studies Semitic studies, or Semitology, is the academic field dedicated to the studies of Semitic languages and literatures and the history of the Semitic-speaking peoples. A person may be called a ''Semiticist'' or a ''Semitist'', both terms being equi ...

at the universities of Halle and

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

, where he was a student of

Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (21 February 1801 – 10 February 1888) was a German Orientalist. Biography He was born at Schandau, Saxony. From 1819 to 1824, he studied theology and Oriental languages at Leipzig, subsequently continuing his stud ...

. In 1874 he became an associate professor, and in 1882 accepted the post of professor of oriental

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Pruss ...

. In 1890 he returned as a professor to the University of Halle.

Works

* ''Die Griechischen Philosophen in der Arabischen Überlieferung'' ("The Greek philosophers in the Arab tradition", 1873). * ''Der Islam im Morgen- und Abendland'' (“Islam in the west and the orient”; 1885–87). * ''Hebräische Schulgrammatik'' (“Hebrew school grammar”; 1878), the syntax of which was translated into English by James Robertson. * Reedition (1876), Caspari's ''Arabische Grammatik'', which he considerably enlarged. * ''Delectus Veterum Carminum Arabicorum'' (1890, with Nöldeke), furnished with copious annotations, and thus rendered useful to those who desire to become acquainted with Arabic poetry. * Edition (1884) of Ibn Useibia's ''History of Physicians'', with Arabic text and a critical commentar
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Several of his essays are contained in the "''Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft''" and "''Beiträge zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen''". In 1887, he was appointed editor of the ''Orientalische Bibliographie''.Orientalische bibliographie
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, August 1848 births 1892 deaths University of Halle alumni Academic staff of the University of Halle Leipzig University alumni Academic staff of the University of Königsberg German orientalists Writers from Szczecin People from the Province of Pomerania German male non-fiction writers