Lucian Müller
Lucian Müller (March 17, 1836 – April 24, 1898) was a German classical scholar. He was born in Merseburg in the Province of Saxony. He studied at the universities of Berlin and Halle, then spent five years in the Netherlands, where he worked on his Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in den Niederlanden (1869). When he could not obtain a university post in Germany, he accepted in 1870 the professorship of Latin at the Imperial Historico-Philological Institute in St. Petersburg. He died in St. Petersburg.
Müller showed wide learning and sharp critical skill, and he was known for his sometimes bitter attacks on scholars whose opinions differed from his. He followed the methods of Richard Bentley and Karl Lachmann. His De re metrica poetarum latinorum (1861; second ed. 1894) is a landmark in the study of the meter of Latin poets, excluding the dramatists. His Metrik der Griechen und Römer (second ed., 1885) is an excellent focused work; an English translation by Samuel Ball Platner appeared in Boston in 1892. His other chief publications were:
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