Friedrich Müller (linguist)

Friedrich Müller ( born March 6, 1834 in Rabenstein, Bohemia, † May 25, 1898 in Vienna ) was an Austrian linguist. From him the term comes Hamito - Semitic languages. He was the older brother of Hebrew scholar and Director of the University Library of Graz Alois Müller.

Life

Friedrich Müller studied in 1853 at the University of Vienna first Classical Philology, at the suggestion of Anton Boller then Sanskrit and comparative linguistics. In 1859 he received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen, 1860, he habilitated in Vienna. In 1866 he became a professor of Sanskrit and comparative linguistics at the University of Vienna. Müller founded the so-called " linguistic ethnography ". From 1869 he was real member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.

Works (selection)

  • Floor plan of linguistics. Olms, Hildesheim, 2004
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