Ivan von Müller
Ivan Philipp Eduard Müller ( born May 20, 1830 in Wunsiedel as Iwan Müller, knighted 1889; † July 20, 1917 in Munich) was a German classical scholar and educator who was a professor at the universities of Erlangen ( 1864-1893 ) and Munich (1893-1906) worked. It is particularly to be the founder of the Handbook of Classical Studies ( HdA ) known.
Life
Iwan Müller was the son of piano and organ builder Johann Christoph Müller (1792-1863) and his wife Auguste Friederike née Glass ( 1803-1870 ). He attended the Latin school in Wunsiedel, then the high school in the yard. In 1848 he entered the University of Erlangen and studied mathematics and classical philology, but turned under the influence of his academic teachers and Karl Friedrich Ludwig Döderlein Nagelsbach particularly of philology. In November 1853 Müller passed the state exam and worked as a school teacher in Ansbach. Here he married in 1860 Luise Hoffmann ( 1840-1923 ), the daughter of the local high school teacher Carl Hoffmann ( 1800-1872 ). With her he had a son. Later, Müller moved to Zweibrücken and Erlangen, where he in 1864 - was appointed because of his teaching success to succeed the deceased university professor Döderlein - without promotion.
During his time as a professor of classical philology and pedagogy in Erlangen Müller was three times Dean of the Faculty of Arts (1870/1871, 1880/1881, 1885) and 1878/1879 Vice-Rector of the University. His teaching and publishing activities brought him in the decades at the University of numerous honors a. 1889 he was awarded personal nobility. As one of the leading educators of his time he was in 1890 and in 1893 a member of the Bavarian Supreme Education Council.
In 1893 he was appointed after the death of Rudolf Schölls to the chair of classical philology at the University of Munich, where he remained until his retirement in 1906. His successor was Albert Rehm.
Services
Müller tried in his nearly fifty -year scientific career to the overall understanding of archeology. His most significant achievement is the reasoning of the Handbook of Classical Studies in 1885, whose mission Müller understood in the systematic representation of the current state of research in the various fields of archeology. By 1913, Müller was the sole editor of the monumental work that continues to this day and is considered a standard work.
With his critical editions of Galen's writings Müller prepared the ground for the company Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, which was founded in 1908 by Hermann Diels. Even with the stylistics and grammar dealt Müller and published numerous textbooks for students.