Friedrich W. K. Müller (January 21, 1863 in Neudamm – April 18, 1930 in

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) 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 four archeological expeditions to Turpan, Turfan in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Xinjiang, China, conducted between 1902 and 1914. They were initiated by Albert Grünwedel, a former director at the Ethnolog ...

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 Asia is home to hundreds of languages comprising several families and some unrelated isolates. The most spoken language families on the continent include Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Japonic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Turkic, ...

at the

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, where his influences included

Eduard Sachau Carl Eduard Sachau (20 July 1845 – 17 September 1930) was a German orientalist. He taught Josef Horovitz and Eugen Mittwoch. Biography He studied oriental languages at the Universities of Kiel and Leipzig, obtaining his PhD at Halle in 186 ...

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

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under

Adolf Bastian Adolf Philipp Wilhelm Bastian (26 June 18262 February 1905) was a 19th-century polymath remembered best for his contributions to the development of ethnography and the development of anthropology as a discipline. His theory of the ''Elementargedan ...

. 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.

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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Albert von Le Coq Albert von Le Coq (; 8 September 1860 in Berlin, Prussia – 21 April 1930 in Berlin, Weimar Republic) was a Prussian/German brewery owner and wine merchant, who at the age of 40 began to study archaeology.''Schatzjagd an der Seidenstraße.'' A fi ...

Vilhelm Thomsen Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen (25 January 1842 – 12 May 1927) was a Denmark, Danish linguistics, linguist and Turkologist. He successfully deciphered the Turkic Orkhon inscriptions which were discovered during the expedition of Nikolai Yadrintse ...

Emil Sieg Emil may refer to: Literature *''Emil and the Detectives'' (1929), a children's novel *"Emil", nickname of the Kurt Maschler Award for integrated text and illustration (1982–1999) *''Emil i Lönneberga'', a series of children's novels by Astr ...

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 royal family). He was the husband of psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Sa ...

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1863 births 1930 deaths People from Dębno People from the Province of Brandenburg German philologists {{CAsia-studies-bio-stub