David Heinrich Müller

David Heinrich Müller (born 6 July 1846 in Buczacz, Galicia; died 21 December 1912 in Vienna, Austria) was a Jewish Austrian orientalist.

Biography

He was educated in Vienna, Leipzig, Strassburg, and Berlin; became professor of Semitic philology at Vienna in 1881.

Works

• Himjaritische Inschriften (1875)
• Südarabische Studien (1877)
• Die Burgen und Schlösser Südarabiens (1879–81)
• Sabäische Denkmäler (with Mordtmann, 1883)
• Epigraphische Denkmäler aus Arabien (1889)
• Die altsemitischen Inschriften von Sendschirli (1893)
• Epigraphische Denkmäler aus Abessinien (1894)
• Ezechielstudien (1895)
• Die Propheten in ihrer ursprünglichen Form (1896)
• Südarabische Alterthümer (1899)
• Die Mehri- und Soqotri-Sprache, Vol. I, II, III (1902, 1905, 1907)

He published editions of:

• Kitab al Farq (1876)
• Hāmdāni, Geography of the Arabian Peninsula (1884–91)
• Tabarî, Annales (in part; 1888)

He was an editor of the Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes.

References

• Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Müller, David Heinrich" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

External links

• Works by or about David Heinrich Müller at Wikisource
• Detailed biography with portrait at compactmemory.de (in German)