August Müller (born 3 December 1848 in
Stettin
Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major seaport, the largest city of northwestern Poland, and se ...
; died 12 September 1892 in
Halle an der Saale
Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (), is the second largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is the sixth-most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Magdeburg as well as t ...
) was a German
orientalist.
Biography
He was educated in
classical philology
Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...
and
Semitic studies
Semitic studies, or Semitology, is the academic field dedicated to the studies of Semitic languages and literatures and the history of the Semitic-speaking peoples. A person may be called a ''Semiticist'' or a ''Semitist'', both terms being equi ...
at the universities of
Halle and
Leipzig
Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...
, where he was a student of
Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer
Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (21 February 1801 – 10 February 1888) was a German Orientalist.
Biography
He was born at Schandau, Saxony. From 1819 to 1824, he studied theology and Oriental languages at Leipzig, subsequently continuing his stud ...
. In 1874, he became an associate professor, and in 1882 accepted the post of professor of oriental
philology
Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...
at the
University of Königsberg
The University of Königsberg () was the university of Königsberg in Duchy of Prussia, which was a fief of Poland. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant Reformation, Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke A ...
. In 1890, he returned as a professor to the University of Halle.
Works
* ''Die Griechischen Philosophen in der Arabischen Überlieferung'' ("The Greek philosophers in the Arab tradition", 1873).
* ''Der Islam im Morgen- und Abendland'' (“Islam in the west and the orient”; 1885–87).
* ''Hebräische Schulgrammatik'' (“Hebrew school grammar”; 1878), the syntax of which was translated into English by James Robertson.
* Reedition (1876),
Caspari's ''Arabische Grammatik'', which he considerably enlarged.
* ''Delectus Veterum Carminum Arabicorum'' (1890, with
Nöldeke), furnished with copious annotations, and thus rendered useful to those who desire to become acquainted with
Arabic poetry
Arabic poetry ( ''ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy'') is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature. Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry contains the bulk of the oldest poetic material in Arabic, but Old Arabic inscriptions reveal the art of poetry existe ...
.
* Edition (1884) of
Ibn Useibia's ''History of Physicians'', with Arabic text and a critical commentar
online
Several of his essays are contained in the "''Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft''" and "''Beiträge zur Kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen''". In 1887, he was appointed editor of the ''Orientalische Bibliographie''.
Orientalische bibliographie
HathiTrust Digital Library
Notes
References
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1848 births
1892 deaths
University of Halle alumni
Academic staff of the University of Halle
Leipzig University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Königsberg
German orientalists
Writers from Szczecin
People from the Province of Pomerania
German male non-fiction writers