Eduard Müller (born in Brieg, 12 November 1804; died in

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, 30 November 1875) was a German educator and

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Biography

From 1821 he studied

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and

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at the

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, where he was a pupil of

Franz Passow Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich Passow (20 September 1786 – 11 March 1833) was a German classical scholar and lexicographer. Biography He was born at Ludwigslust in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1807 he was appointed to the professorship o ...

, then in 1823 relocated to the

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as a student of Georg Ludolf Dissen and

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. He later worked as a teacher in Ratibor, where he eventually attained the post of

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. From 1841 he served in the same capacity at the gymnasium in

, receiving the title of professor in 1846.ADB:Müller, Eduard
In:

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(ADB). Band 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, S. 522.

Works

* ''Geschichte der Theorie der Kunst bei den Alten'' (History of the theory of art among the ancients; 2 volumes, Breslau, 1834–37) – considered to be his main work. * ''Ueber Sophokleische Naturanschauung'', 1842 – On

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' view of nature. * ''Simson und Delilah'' (1853), a tragedy. * ''Karl Otfried Müller's kleine deutsche Schriften über Religion, Kunst, Sprache und Literatur, Leben und Geschichte des Alterthums gesammelt'' (2 volumes 1847–48, 2nd edition 1857) – A collection of smaller writings by his brother,

Karl Otfried Müller Karl Otfried Müller (; 28 August 1797 – 1 August 1840) was a German professor, scholar of classical Greek studies and philodorian. Biography He was born at Brieg (modern Brzeg) in Silesia, then in the Kingdom of Prussia. His father was a c ...

, on religion, art, language, literature and the history of antiquity (edited by Eduard Müller). * ''Parallelen zu den Messianischen Weissagungen und Typen des Alten Testaments aus dem hellenischen Alterthum'', 1875.HathiTrust Digital Library
published works

Family

* His brother

was a noted

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, and another brother, Julius Müller, was a Protestant

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Notes

References

* 1804 births 1875 deaths People from Brzeg People from Prussian Silesia German philologists German male writers University of Göttingen alumni University of Breslau alumni {{Germany-linguist-stub