Werner Müller (born 22 May 1907, Emmerich; died 8 March 1990,

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, though his studies of the sacral patterns in the founding of European settlements (e.g. ''Kreis und Kreuz'', 1938: ''Die heilige Stadt'', 1961) were also substantial. He obtained his doctorate in 1930 under Carl Clemen and was appointed university lecturer in 1942 in

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at the

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Reichs-University.

Works

; in German * ''Die ältesten amerikanischen Sintfluterzählungen'' (PhD dissertation 1930) * ''Kreis und Kreuz. Untersuchungen zur sakralen Siedlung bei Italikern und Germanen'' (Berlin 1938) * ''Die Blaue Hütte. Zum Sinnbild der Perle bei nordamerikanischen Indianern'' (Wiesbaden 1954) * ''Weltbild und Kult der Kwakiutl-Indianer'' (Wiesbaden 1955) * ''Die Religionen der Waldlandindianer Nordamerikas'' (Berlin 1956) * 'Die Religionen der Indianervölker Nordamerikas', in: ''Die Religionen des alten Amerika'' : ''Religionen der Menschheit'' Vol. 7 (Stuttgart 1961). * ''Die heilige Stadt. Roma quadrata, himmlisches Jerusalem und die Mythe vom Weltnabel'' (Stuttgart 1961) * ''Glauben und Denken der Sioux. Zur Gestalt archaischer Weltbilder'' (Berlin 1970) * ''Indianische Welterfahrung'' (Frankfurt 1981) * ''Amerika - Die Neue oder die Alte Welt?'' (1982) ; in English *

Notes

Sources

* Berthold Riese
Müller, Werner
in:

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Vol. 18 (Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997), pp. 482–484. (in German)

External links

For the Centenary of the Tübingen Symbologist and Ethnologist, Werner Müller
PDF, (in German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, Werner 1907 births 1990 deaths People from Kleve (district) German ethnologists 20th-century German anthropologists