Wolfgang Müller-Wiener

Wolfgang Müller- Wiener ( born May 17, 1923 in Friedrichswerth ( Thuringia), † March 25, 1991 in Istanbul ) was a German architectural historian.

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter, he studied from 1948 to 1951 at the Technical University of Karlsruhe architecture and received his PhD in 1954 on the issue of development of industrial construction in Baden. From 1962 to 1967 he was the second director of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo and headed during this time the excavations of Abu Mena in Alexandria. After his habilitation in 1965 at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, he was in 1967 a full professor of architectural history at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. In 1976 he was elected as the first director of the German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul Department. From 1974 until his retirement in 1988, he headed the excavations at Miletus, where he examined himself three Hellenistic temple and Heroa with Berthold Weber and the early Christian buildings. In his honor, the Gästetrackt DAI Istanbul Wolfgang Müller -Wiener college was called.

Writings

• Armin von Gerkan: The theater of Epidauros, W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1961.
• Medieval fortifications in southern Ionia. In: Istanbul messages. Vol 11, ISSN 0341-9142, 1961, pp. 5-122.
• The fortifications of Izmir, Sigacik and Çandarli: Remarks to the medieval topography of the northern Ionia. In: Istanbul messages. Vol 12, 1962, pp. 59-114.
• Crusader Castles in the Holy Land, Cyprus and in the Aegean. German Art Publishers, Munich et al 1966.
• Picture Dictionary of the topography of Istanbul. Byzantion, Konstantinupolis, Istanbul until the beginning of the 17th century. Wasmuth, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-8030-1022-5.
• From the Polis to the castrum. In: High School. Vol 93, 1986, pp. 435-475.
• Greek construction in antiquity. Beck, Munich, 1988, ISBN 3-406-32993-4.
• The ports of Byzantium, Konstantinupolis, Istanbul. Wasmuth, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8030-1042- X.