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Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller

1813 – 1894

German philologist and historian

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Lived 1813 – 1894 (aged 80–81). Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller was a German classical philologist, historian, geographer, cartographer and philologist.

Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller (; 13 February 1813 in Clausthal – 1894 in Göttingen) was a German philologist and historian, best known for his Didot editions of fragmentary Greek authors.

Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum Müller's monumental Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG), the first major collection of fragments from Greek historians, was published across five volumes between 1841 and 1870. The FHG compiles the fragments of precisely 636 such historians, who date from between the 6th century BC and the 7th century AD, and are ordered chronologically within the collection. The fragments of each historian are ordered according to the work to which they were attributed, and are accompanied by a Latin translation and commentary. Müller's research in preparing the collection, which had originally been planned as a single-volume work, was funded by François-Ambroise Didot. The work was replaced as the preeminent edition of the fragmentary Greek historians by Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (FGrHist), which was started in the 20th century by Felix Jacoby, and has recently been expanded. In the 21st century, the FHG has been digitised as the Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum.

Works De Aeschyli Septem Contra Thebas, Diss. Göttingen (1836): Internet Archive. . Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (1841–1870): vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. . Arriani Anabasis et Indica. Scriptores rerum Alexandri Magni (fragmenta). Pseudo-Callisthenes (1846): online Oratores Attici (1847–1858): vols. 1–2 Strabonis Geographica (1853): online Herodoti Historiarum libri ix. Ctesiae Cnidii et Chronographorum Castoris Eratosthenis etc. fragmenta (1858): online Geographi Graeci minores (1861–1882): vol. 1, vol. 2, tabulae Claudii Ptolemaei Geographia (1883–1901): vol. 1:1, vol. 1:2

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1894, Göttingen
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University of Göttingen

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German philologist and historian (1813–1894)

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Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller was born on 13 February 1813 in Clausthal.

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Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller died in 1894 in Göttingen.

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Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller was a classical philologist, historian, geographer, cartographer and philologist.

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· Wikidata: Q70376

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