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.
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