Friedrich W. K. Müller (January 21, 1863 in
Neudamm – April 18, 1930 in
Berlin) was a German scholar of oriental cultures and languages. He is best remembered for his decipherment of manuscript fragments collected on the
German Turfan expeditions
The German Turfan expeditions were conducted between 1902 and 1914. The four expeditions to Turfan in Xinjiang, China, were initiated by Albert Grünwedel, a former director at the Ethnological Museum of Berlin, and organized by Albert von Le Coq ...
to western China.
[Müller, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl]
In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, , S. 381 f.
From 1883 he studied theology and
oriental languages at the
University of Berlin, where his influences included
Eduard Sachau and
Wilhelm Grube
Wilhelm Grube () (17 August 1855 – 2 July 1908) was a German sinologist and ethnographer. He is particularly known for his work on Tungusic languages and the Jurchen language.
Biography
Grube was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1855. He ...
. In 1887 he began work at the
Ethnological Museum of Berlin under
Adolf Bastian. In 1896 he was appointed a directorial assistant in the museum's East Asian department, becoming its director in 1906. Except for a research trip to the Far East (China, Korea, Japan) in 1901, he remained at the museum until his retirement in 1928.
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Selected works
* ''Handschriften-Reste in Estrangelo-Schrift aus Turfan, Chinesisch-Turkistan II'' (as editor), 1904 – Manuscript fragments in Estrangelo script from the Turfan expedition.
* ''Uigurica'', 1908.
* ''Soghdische Texte I'', 1913 – Sogdian text I.
* ''Zwei Pfahlinschriften aus den Turfanfunden'', 1915 – Inscriptions from the Turfan discoveries.
** 1. ''Die uigurische Inschrift auf dem Pfahle'' – Uighur inscriptions.
** 2. ''Die chinesische Pfahlinschrift'' – Chinese inscriptions.
* ''Soghdische Texte II'', 1934 – Sogdian text II.IDREF.fr
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Peers
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Albert von Le Coq
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Vilhelm Thomsen
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Emil Sieg
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Friedrich Carl Andreas
Friedrich Carl Andreas (14 April 1846 in Batavia – 4 October 1930 in Göttingen) was an orientalist of German, Malay and Armenian parentage (descendant of the Bagratuni or Bagratid royal family (Armenian: Բագրատունի). He was t ...
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1863 births
1930 deaths
People from Dębno
People from the Province of Brandenburg
German philologists
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