Lucian Müller (17 March 1836 – 24 April 1898) was a German
classical scholar
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.
Life
Müller was born in
Merseburg
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in the
Province of Saxony. After studying at the universities of
Berlin
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and
Halle, he lived for five years in the
Netherlands
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, working on his ''Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in den Niederlanden'' (1869). Unable to obtain a university appointment in Germany, he accepted (1870) the professorship of
Latin
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at the Imperial Historico-Philological Institute in
St Petersburg.
He died in St Petersburg.
Works
Müller's works display great erudition and critical acumen, and also feature bitter attacks on eminent scholars whose opinions differ from his own. He was a disciple of the methods of
Richard Bentley and
Karl Lachmann
Karl Konrad Friedrich Wilhelm Lachmann (; 4 March 1793 – 13 March 1851) was a German philologist and critic. He is particularly noted for his foundational contributions to the field of textual criticism.
Biography
Lachmann was born in Brun ...
. His ''De re metrica poetarum latinorum'' (1861; 2nd ed. 1894) represents a landmark in the investigation of the metrical system of the Roman poets (the dramatists excepted), and his ''Metrik der Griechen und Römer'' (2nd ed., 1885) is an excellent treatise on a limited subject (Eng. trans. by
Samuel Ball Platner, Boston, 1892).
His other chief publications were:
*''
G. Lucili saturarum reliquiae'' (1872), including the fragments of
Accius and
Sueius
*''Leben und Werke des
Gaius Lucilius
Gaius Lucilius (180, 168 or 148 BC – 103 BC) was the earliest Roman satirist, of whose writings only fragments remain. A Roman citizen of the equestrian class, he was born at Suessa Aurunca in Campania, and was a member of the Scipio ...
'' (1876; suppt. ''Luciliana'', 1884)
*edition of
Horace (1869; 2nd ed. 1879;
[Written for the ''Bibliotheca Teubneriana''.] 3rd ed. 1897)
*edition of
Catullus
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(1870)
[
*edition of Phaedrus (1877)
*''Quintus Horatius Flaccus, eine litterarhistorische Biographie'' (1880)
*'' Quintus Ennius'' (1884), an introduction to the study of Roman poetry
*''Q. Enni carminum reliquiae'' (1884)
*'' Livi Andronici et Gnaeus Naevius fabularum reliquiae'' (1885)
*''Der saturnische Vers und seine Denkmäler'' (1885)
*'' Noni Marcelli compendiosa doctrina'' (1888)
*''De Pacuvii fabulis'' (1889)
*''De Accii fabulis disputatio'' (1890)
*''Ein Horazjubiläum'' (1892), contains a short autobiography
*edition of Horace's '']Odes
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*The plural of ode, a type of poem
* ''Odes'' (Horace), a collection of poems by the Roman author Horace, circa 23 BCE
*Odes of Solomon, a pseudepigraphic book of the Bible
*Book of Odes (Bible), a Deuterocanonical book of the ...
'' and '' Epodes'', with German commentaries (1882)
*edition of Horace's ''Satires
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'' and '' Epistles'' (1891–93)
Notes
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1836 births
1898 deaths
German classical scholars
People from Merseburg
People from the Province of Saxony