Lucian Müller

Lucian Müller was a German classical scholar.

Life

Müller was born in Merseburg in the Province of Saxony. After studying at the universities of Berlin and Halle, he lived for five years in the Netherlands, working on his Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in den Niederlanden. Unable to obtain a university appointment in Germany, he accepted the professorship of Latin at the Imperial Historico-Philological Institute in St Petersburg.
He died in St Petersburg.

Works

Müller's works display great erudition and critical acumen, and also feature bitter attacks on eminent scholars whose opinions differ from his own. He was a disciple of the methods of Richard Bentley and Karl Lachmann. His De re metrica poetarum latinorum represents a landmark in the investigation of the metrical system of the Roman poets, and his Metrik der Griechen und Römer is an excellent treatise on a limited subject.
His other chief publications were:

G. Lucili saturarum reliquiae, including the fragments of Accius and Sueius
Leben und Werke des Gaius Lucilius
edition of Horace
edition of Catullus
edition of Phaedrus
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, eine litterarhistorische Biographie
Quintus Ennius, an introduction to the study of Roman poetry
Q. Enni carminum reliquiae
Livi Andronici et Gnaeus Naevius fabularum reliquiae
Der saturnische Vers und seine Denkmäler
Noni Marcelli compendiosa doctrina
De Pacuvii fabulis
De Accii fabulis disputatio
Ein Horazjubiläum, contains a short autobiography
edition of Horace's Odes and Epodes, with German commentaries
edition of Horace's Satires and ''Epistles''