Friedrich W. K. Müller

Friedrich Wilhelm Karl " F.W.K. " Müller ( born January 21, 1863 in Neudamm, Brandenburg Province, † April 8, 1930 in Berlin) was a German orientalist.

Life

After visiting the French Gymnasium in Berlin, he started there in the winter semester 1883/1884 the study of theology. Soon, however, he moved to the Oriental and dealt in particular with the Arabic, Chinese and Syrian. During his studies he joined the country club Guilelmia. Since 1887, Müller was research assistant at the Museum of Ethnology and in 1889 on the Dr. phil. doctorate. From the museum director, he was then sent on a long journey to the Far East to his theoretical knowledge through vivid impressions to complete. Müller has been appointed Direktorialassistenten 1896 and was from 1906 to 1928 Head of the East Asian Department of the Museum of Ethnology. He always lent itself to more languages ​​, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Samoan and the language of the Batak to penetrate the culture of these peoples. He succeeded in deciphering the salvaged on the Turfan Expedition Middle Persian manuscript residues.

" A really big one is with F.W.K. Mueller passed away, like giving him a century of research, only once, a Universalist, "another Humboldt ," as well once called him. "

Works

In 1904, Müller published mainly in the papers and meeting reports of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, which he was a member since 1907. Some of these studies were published as separate monographs.

The Christian, but mainly Buddhist Turkish literature Müller turned to his 1908 series begun Uigurica whose fourth episode 1931 edited by Anne Marie of Gabain from the estate.