Walter Wilhelm Müller (born 26 September 1933 in

Weipert Vejprty (; german: Weipert) is a town in Chomutov District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,700 inhabitants. It lies along the border with Germany. Administrative parts Villages of České Hamry and Výsada are ...

in the Ore Mountains) is a German specialist in the field of ancient South Arabia and Semitic

epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

. After studying Semitic and Arabic studies at the University of Tübingen Müller graduated in 1962. He subsequently worked as an academic assistant at the Institute for Semitic Studies; he became a professor in 1968 and in 1973 was appointed an extraordinary professor. In 1975 he was called to be an ordinary professor for Semitic Studies at the Philipps-Universität in

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximate ...

. In 2001 he became professor emeritus. Since 1978 Müller has been a corresponding member of the

German Archaeological Institute The German Archaeological Institute (german: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, ''DAI'') is a research institute in the field of archaeology (and other related fields). The DAI is a "federal agency" under the Federal Foreign Office of Germany ...

, since 1987 ordinary member of the

Academy of Sciences and Literature The Academy of Sciences and Literature (german: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, AdW Mainz) is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany. It was established in 1949 on an initiative of Alfred Döblin. The academy's goal is to su ...

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, since 1990 a member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts, and since 2001 a corresponding member of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...

. These days Walter W. Müller devotes himself to the study of South Arabia, especially from a linguistic and economic point of view.

Works

* Weihrauch. Ein arabisches Produkt und seine Bedeutung in der Antike, München 1978 (Sonderdruck aus: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Suppl.-Bd. 15, München 1974, pp. 701–777) * With Alfred Felix Landon Beeston, Mahmud al-Ghul, Jacques Ryckmans: Sabaic Dictionary / Dictionnaire sabéen, Louvain-la-Neuve, Peeters 1982, * Südarabien im Altertum. Kommentierte Bibliographie der Jahre 1973 bis 1996, Rahden/Westf., Leidorf 2001,

Bibliography

* Norbert Nebes (Hrsg.): Arabia felix. Beiträge zur Sprache und Kultur des vorislamischen Arabien. Festschrift Walter W. Müller zum 60. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz 1994. (Pp. XI - XXXIV Bibliography) * ''

Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender ''Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender'' (English: "Kürschner's Encyclopedia of German Scholars"), formerly subtitled ''Lexikon der lebenden deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftler'' ("Encyclopedia of Living German-Speaking Scholars"), is a German l ...

'', 21st edition (2007), pp. 2491–2492.

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Walter W. Müller at the University of Marburg
{{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, Walter W. 1933 births German archaeologists Academic staff of the University of Marburg Living people Yemen researchers Sudeten German people People from Vejprty