David Heinrich Müller (born 6 July 1846 in Buczacz,

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; died 21 December 1912 in

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) was a Jewish Austrian orientalist.

Biography

He was educated in

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, and

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; became professor of

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at Vienna in 1881.

Works

* ''Himjaritische Inschriften'' (1875) * ''Südarabische Studien'' (1877) * ''Die Burgen und Schlösser Südarabiens'' (1879–81) * ''Sabäische Denkmäler'' (with Mordtmann, 1883) * ''Epigraphische Denkmäler aus Arabien'' (1889) * ''Die altsemitischen Inschriften von Sendschirli'' (1893) * ''Epigraphische Denkmäler aus Abessinien'' (1894) * ''Ezechielstudien'' (1895) * ''Die Propheten in ihrer ursprünglichen Form'' (1896) * ''Südarabische Alterthümer'' (1899) * ''Die Mehri- und Soqotri-Sprache'', Vol. I, II, III (1902, 1905, 1907) He published editions of: * ''Kitab al Farq'' (1876) * Hāmdāni, ''Geography of the Arabian Peninsula'' (1884–91) * Tabarî, ''Annales'' (in part; 1888) He was an editor of the ''Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes''.

References

External links

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Detailed biography with portrait
at compactmemory.de {{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, David Heinrich 1846 births 1912 deaths Austrian orientalists Austrian Jews Academics of the University of Vienna 19th-century Jews