Friedrich Christoph Müller

Friedrich Christoph Müller ( born October 8, 1751 Allendorf an der Lumda, † April 10, 1808 in Schwelm ) was a German theologian and cartographer, son of theologian Johann Daniel Müller.

Müller studied 1768-1772 theology, mathematics, astronomy, and the genius at the University of Rinteln and after a year at the University of Göttingen. At the same time he learned four foreign languages. After employment as a private tutor, he made ​​a trip through northern Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. He was pastor from 1776 to Sass village and from 1782 in Unna. On January 15, 1785 he was elected the second minister of the Lutheran church in Schwelm. When the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm from 7 to June 9, 1788 stayed in the capital of the county of Mark Hagen, Müller became the spokesperson for the delegates from Schwelm. He was then a year as a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences with a content of 200 rix-dollars. His most valuable work is the " Choragraphie of Schwelm " of 1789, with numerous illustrations of the craft and industry. Müller devoted his publication the King of Prussia and enlisted with the riches in the Bergisch land for the state industrial promotion in the border Schwelm. In the publication, are probably the first illustrations of women as workers in the Texitil manufactories.

From Müller administrative map of the county of Mark is from the year 1791. He used the Landestriangulation a theodolite from the workshop of John Dollond in the years 1789 and 1790.

In Schwelm is located at the Mart field a monument to Müller. The Friedrich Christoph Müller-Straße near the B7 was named after him. It was here in the 1990s, a new housing development with homes, condominiums, and apartments.

Works

• Müller's description of a new and perfect style to take the plan and recorded. Philipp Heinrich Perrenon, Frankfurt / Leipzig 1775.
• Choragraphie of Schwelm, beginning and attempt a topography of the county of Mark. Lemgo / Leipzig 1789. ( New ed. Gerd Helbeck, Gevelsberg 1980)
• Trigonometric Survey of County Marck, together with a custom built afterward geographical networks. In: Collection of German treatises of the Royal. Academy of Sciences in Berlin 1788/89. Berlin 1793, pp. 91-142.
• Friedrich Christoph Müller, description of some engravings, which present Choragraphie explained and made ​​clearer. In: Peter Florence Weddigen (ed.): New westphälisches magazine on the geography, history and statistics. First Volume, Issue 1-4, Biickeburg 1789, pp. 82-95. (online)