Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller (; 13 February 1813 in
Clausthal
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– 1894 in
Göttingen
Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...
) was a German philologist and historian, best known for his
Didot editions of fragmentary Greek authors.
''Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum''
Müller's monumental ''Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum'' (''FHG''), the first major collection of
fragments from Greek historians, was published across five volumes between 1841 and 1870. The ''FHG'' compiles the fragments of precisely 636 such historians, who date from between the 6th century BC and the 7th century AD, and are ordered chronologically within the collection. The fragments of each historian are ordered according to the work to which they were attributed, and are accompanied by a Latin translation and commentary. Müller's research in preparing the collection, which had originally been planned as a single-volume work, was funded by François-Ambroise Didot. The work was replaced as the preeminent edition of the fragmentary Greek historians by ''
Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker'' (''FGrHist''), which was started in the 20th century by
Felix Jacoby
Felix Jacoby (; 19 March 1876 – 10 November 1959) was a German classicist and philologist. He is best known among classicists for his highly important work '' Fragmente der griechischen Historiker'', a collection of text fragments of ancient ...
, and has recently been expanded. In the 21st century, the ''FHG'' has been digitised as the Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum.
Works
* ''De
Aeschyli Septem Contra Thebas'', Diss. Göttingen (1836)
Internet Archive .
* ''Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum'' (1841–1870): vols
12345
.
* ''Arrian
Arrian of Nicomedia (; Greek: ''Arrianos''; ; )
was a Greek historian, public servant, military commander, and philosopher of the Roman period.
'' The Anabasis of Alexander'' by Arrian is considered the best source on the campaigns of ...
i Anabasis
Anabasis (from Greek ''ana'' = "upward", ''bainein'' = "to step or march") is an expedition from a coastline into the interior of a country. Anabase and Anabasis may also refer to:
History
* '' Anabasis Alexandri'' (''Anabasis of Alexander''), ...
et Indica. Scriptores rerum Alexandri Magni (fragmenta). Pseudo-Callisthenes
Callisthenes of Olynthus ( /kəˈlɪsθəˌniːz/; Greek: Καλλισθένης; 360 – 327 BCE) was a Greek historian in Macedon with connections to both Aristotle and Alexander the Great. He accompanied Alexander the Great during his Asiati ...
'' (1846)
online
* '' Oratores Attici'' (1847–1858)
vols. 1–2
* ''Strabo
Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-si ...
nis Geographica'' (1853)
online
* '' Herodoti Historiarum libri ix. Ctesiae Cnidii et Chronographorum Castoris Eratosthenis etc. fragmenta'' (1858)
online
* '' Geographi Graeci minores'' (1861–1882)
vol. 1vol. 2tabulae
* '' Claudii Ptolemaei Geographia
The ''Geography'' (, , "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the ' and the ', is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire. Originally wri ...
'' (1883–1901)
vol. 1:1vol. 1:2
Notes
References
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Further reading
* Bursian, Conrad, ''Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland'', vol. 2, Munich, 1883
pp. 898–9
* Petitmengin, P., "Deux têtes de pont de la philologie allemande en France: Le ''Thesaurus Linguae Graecae'' et la ''Bibliothèque des auteurs grecs'' (1830–1867)", in ''Philologie und Hermeneutik im 19. Jahrhundert. Volume 2'', pp. 76–107, edited by M. Bollack and H. Wismann, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1983.
External links
DFHG
the Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum
Müller-Jacoby Table of Concordance
{{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, Karl Wilhelm Ludwig
1813 births
1894 deaths
German classical philologists
19th-century German historians
People from Hanover Region
19th-century German male writers
19th-century German writers
German male non-fiction writers