Karl Johann August (Friedrich Wilhelm) Müller (16 December 1818 – 9 February 1899) was a German bryologist and science popularizer. Prior to 1843 he worked as a

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(1843 to 1846). In 1843 he became an assistant editor of ''Botanische Zeitung''. Together with Otto Ule and

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, Müller founded the ''Die Natur'' which remained for decades the flagship journal of popular science in Germany. He authored several books to reach lay audiences in his attempt to spread an aesthetically imbued image of nature. He determined the mosses of Augustus Fendler which were distributed by August Schrader in 1879 as

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with the title ''Musci Venezuelenses, determ. C. Mueller. Legit. A. Fendler 1854-5'' During his career he amassed a moss

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consisting of 12,000 bryological species. '' Pyrrhobryum parramattense'' is one of the many species he described. In 1898, Müller was elected a member of the Leopoldina science academy.

Written works

* ''Synopsis muscorum frondosorum'' (two volumes, 1849/1851). * ''Genera muscorum frondosorum'' (1901)., (with Karl Schliephacke).Google Search
published works by Karl Schliephacke. * ''Antäus oder to dir Natur im Spiegel der Menschheit''.

References

* ''Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the

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Darwin Correspondence Project- Müller, J.K.A.

External links

* German bryologists 1818 births 1899 deaths University of Halle alumni People from Allstedt 19th-century German botanists Botanists from the Kingdom of Prussia {{Germany-botanist-stub