August Müller (born 3 December 1848 in
Stettin
Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin language, Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Po ...
; died 12 September 1892 in
Halle an der Saale) was a German
orientalist.
Biography
He was educated in
classical philology and
Semitic studies at the universities of
Halle Halle may refer to:
Places Germany
* Halle (Saale), also called Halle an der Saale, a city in Saxony-Anhalt
** Halle (region), a former administrative region in Saxony-Anhalt
** Bezirk Halle, a former administrative division of East Germany
** Hall ...
and
Leipzig, where he was a student of
Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer. In 1874 he became an associate professor, and in 1882 accepted the post of professor of oriental
philology at the
University of Königsberg. 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
Arabic poetry ( ar, الشعر العربي ''ash-shi‘ru al-‘Arabīyyu'') is the earliest form of Arabic literature. Present knowledge of poetry in Arabic dates from the 6th century, but oral poetry is believed to predate that.
Arabic poetry ...
.
* Edition (1884) of
Ibn Useibia's ''History of Physicians'', with Arabic text and a critical commentar
online
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
HathiTrust Digital Library
Notes
References
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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