Wilhelm Konrad Hermann Müller

Wilhelm Konrad Hermann Müller (1812-1890)

Wilhelm Konrad Hermann Müller (27 May 1812, Holzminden – 4 January 1890, Göttingen) was a philologist of Germanic studies.

From 1830 he studied philology and theology at the University of Göttingen as a student of Otfried Müller. In 1841 he started work as a lecturer of German language and literature at Göttingen, becoming an associate professor in January 1845.^[1] From 1856 up until his death in 1890, he was a full professor of philology at Göttingen.^[2]

Works

With Georg Schambach, he was co-author of a book on Lower Saxon legends and fairy tales, titled "Niedersächsische Sagen und Märchen" (1855). With Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke, he was an editor of a four-part Middle High German dictionary ("Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch", 1854-1866) that was initiated by Georg Friedrich Benecke. Other noted works associated with Müller include:

• De Corcyræorum republica, 1835.
• Geschichte und System der altdeutschen Religion, Göttingen 1844 – History and system of the old German religion.
• Mythologie der deutschen Heldensage, Heilbronn 1886 – Mythology of the German heroic saga.^[3][4]

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