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Wilhelm Max Müller (15 May 1862 – 12 July 1919) was a German-born American orientalist.


Biography

Müller was born at Gleißenberg,
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. He received his higher education in
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, where he received his
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He was one of the last students of the Egyptologist
Georg Ebers Georg Moritz Ebers (1 March 1837 – 7 August 1898) was a German Egyptologist and novelist. He is best known for his purchase of the Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest Egyptian medical documents in the world. Life Georg Ebers was born in Berl ...
. Müller emigrated to the United States in 1888. He was a professor at the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia beginning in 1890. During several years (1904, 1906, 1910), he engaged in archaeological work in Egypt for the Carnegie Institution. He lectured on
Egyptology Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Ancient Greek, Greek , ''wiktionary:-logia, -logia''; ) is the scientific study of ancient Egypt. The topics studied include ancient Egyptian History of Egypt, history, Egyptian language, language, Ancient Egypt ...
at the
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and purchased papyri in Egypt for the University Museum. He died in a drowning accident in Wildwood, New Jersey, in July 1919.


Works

* ''Asien und Europa nach altägyptischen Denkmälern'' (lit. "Asia and Europe on Egyptian Monuments", 1893) * ''Die Liebespoesie der alten Ägypter'' (lit. "The Love Poetry of the Ancient Egyptians", 1899) *'' * ''Egyptian Mythology'', vol. XII in Marshall Jones, ed., '' The Mythology of All Races'', Boston, 1918; New York: Dover, 2005, He was a contributor to the '' Encyclopædia Biblica'' and the '' Jewish Encyclopædia''. After 1905 he served as joint editor of the '' Gesenius Hebrew Dictionary''. He wrote on the identification of Keftiu and concluded that it could not be
Phoenicia Phoenicians were an Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples, ancient Semitic group of people who lived in the Phoenician city-states along a coastal strip in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon and the Syria, Syrian ...
.


Further reading

On his involvement with the acquisition and early organization of the papyri and related materials in the Egyptology collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, see


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* 1862 births 1919 deaths Reformed Episcopal Seminary faculty American archaeologists American lexicographers American orientalists American Egyptologists Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Leipzig University alumni Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States 19th-century American Episcopalians {{US-archaeologist-stub