Werner Müller (ethnologist)

Werner Müller ( May 22nd, 1907 in Emmerich; † 7 March 1990 in Bad Urach ) was a German ethnologist.

Life

Müller received his doctorate in 1930 in Bonn at Carl Clemen. Since 1933 he worked as a librarian in Berlin- Spandau and smaller contributions published in the publication series of the SS Forschungsgemeinschaft Deutsches Ahnenerbe. In 1936, Müller employee in a research contract to Ura - Linda -Chronik. Müller was since 1 May 1933 member of the NSDAP (member number 2549044 ) and since 1940 the SS ( membership number 352 955 ) in the personal staff of the Reichsführer of the SS Müller habilitated in 1942 in anthropology at the State University of Strasbourg, at the time he was in the Foundation Ahnenerbe head of the " teaching and research facility for locating and landscape symbols ". On protection of the Ahnenerbe 's managing director Wolfram Sievers way he held in February 1944 in Strasbourg a sample lecture and received on 27 November 1944, a lectureship in Religious Studies, which he could not compete because of the war.

Because of its activity as a National Socialist, he lived after 1945 as a private scholar grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and again in 1955 was set as a librarian in West Berlin. 1962, he joined as a technical adviser for history and geography at the Tübingen University Library.

The focus of his scientific work was the study of the mythology of the North American Indians. Since March 9, 1936 he was married to the children's author Anna Ernestine Tannewitz.

Works

  • The oldest American Flood stories, 1930, PhD thesis
  • Circle and cross. Studies on the sacral settlement with Italians and Germans, Berlin 1938
  • The Blue Cottage. The symbol of the pearl among North American Indians, Wiesbaden 1954
  • Worldview and cult of Kwakiutl Indians, Wiesbaden 1955
  • The religions of the Woodland Indians of North America, Berlin 1956
  • The religions of the Indian peoples of North America, in: The religions of ancient America, religions of mankind Vol 7, Stuttgart 1961
  • The holy city. Roma quadrata, heavenly Jerusalem, and the myth of the world Abel, Stuttgart 1961
  • Faith and thought of the Sioux. To shape archaic worldviews, Berlin 1970
  • Indian experience of the world, Frankfurt 1981
  • America - The New or the Old World in 1982?
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