Lucian Müller

Lucian Müller (March 17, 1836 - April 24, 1898), German classical scholar, was born at Merseburg in Saxony-Anhalt, then part of Prussia.

Having studied at Berlin and Halle, he resided for five years in the Netherlands, where he worked on his Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in den Niederlanden (1869). Unable to obtain a university appointment in Germany, he accepted (1870) the professorship of Latin at the Imperial Historico-Philological Institute in St Petersburg.

Müller was a disciple of the methods of Bentley and Lachmann. His De re metrica poetarum latinorum (1861; 2nd ed., 1894) represents a landmark in the investigation of the metrical system of the Roman poets (the dramatists excepted), and his Metrik der Griechen und Romer (2nd ed., 1885) is an excellent treatise in a small compass (Eng. trans. by SB Platner, Boston, Mass., 1892).

His other chief publications were:

• C. Lucili saturarum reliquiae (1872), including the fragments of Accius and Suetus
• Leben und Werke des Galus Lucilius (1876; suppt. Luciliana, 1884)
• text of Horace (1869; 3rd ed., 1897)
• Quintus Horatius Flaccus, eine litterarhistorische Biographie (1880)
• Quintus Ennius (1884), an introduction to the study of Roman poetry
• Q. Enni carminum religuiae (1884)
• Livi Andronici et Gn. Naevi fabularum reliquiae (1885)
• Der saturnische Vers und seine Denkmäler (1885)
• Noni Marcelli compendiata doctrina (1888)
• De Pacuvii fabulis (1889)
• De Aceli fabulis disputatio (1890).

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.