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:
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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