Lucian Müller
Lucian Müller ( born March 17, 1836 in Merseburg, † April 24, 1898 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German classical scholar.
After studying at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Halle he lived for five years in the Netherlands, where he wrote his history of classical philology in the Netherlands ( 1869). Since he was not able to obtain a professorship in Germany, he accepted in 1870 the appointment of a Chair for Latin Studies at the Imperial Historical and Philosophical Institute in St. Petersburg. Ulrich von Wilamowitz- Moellendorff, then a student at the Bonn conference was, in his memoirs, 1848-1914 (Berlin 1928, p 94) delivered a damning verdict: " A lecturer was certainly present, which was not to be heard, even then the insufferable Lucian Müller, the German ground soon became too hot. "
Müller was a student of the methods of Richard Bentley and Karl Lachmann. His treatise De re metrica poetarum Latinorum (1861 ) became a milestone in the study of metric systems of the Roman poet ( with the exception of the playwright ), and its metric of the Greeks and Romans (2nd edition 1885) remained the best scientific summary for a long time this matter.
Writings (selection )
Other important publications (in chronological order ):
- Life and Works of Gaius Lucilius (1876 )
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a litterarhistorische Biography (1880 )
- Quintus Ennius (1884 ), an introduction to the study of Roman poetry
- The Saturnian verse and its Monuments ( 1885)
- De Pacuvii Fabulis (1889 )
- De AccII Fabulis disputatio (1890)
Among the most important text edited by Müller issues count ( also in chronological order ):
- G. Lucili saturarum reliquiae (1872 ), including fragments of Accius and Suetus
- Q. Horatii Flacci Opera (1869, 3rd edition 1897)
- Q. Enni carminum religuiae (1884 )
- Livi Andronici et Gn. Nevi fabularum reliquiae (1885 )
- Noni Marcelli compendiosa doctrina (1888 )