Müller, Johann Georg, 1759-1819

LC control no.	nr 89007755
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Müller, Johann Georg, 1759-1819 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Mueller, Johann Georg, 1759-1819 Müller, J. Georg (Johann Georg), 1759-1819 Mueller, Johann Georg von, 1759-1819 Müller, Georg, 1759-1819 Müller, Joh. Georg, 1759-1819 Müller, J. G. (Johann Georg), 1759-1819
Associated country	Switzerland
Associated place	Zurich (Switzerland) Göttingen (Germany) Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
Located	Schaffhausen (Switzerland)
Birth date	17590903
Death date	18191120
Place of birth	Neunkirch (Switzerland)
Place of death	Schaffhausen (Switzerland)
Field of activity	Theology Classical languages--Study and teaching Teaching School management and organization Politics, Practical Authorship Library administration
Profession or occupation	Theologians Teachers School administrators Authors Politicians Librarians
Found in	His Der Briefwechsel der Brüder J. Georg Müller and Joh. v. Müller ... 1893: p. vi (Johann Georg Müller) RLIN data base, 6/14/89 (hdg.: Müller, Johann Georg, 1759-1819) Deutsche Nationalbibliothek online, Jan. 24, 2014 (access point: Müller, Johann Georg; other access points: Mueller, Johann Georg; Mueller, Johann Georg von; Müller, Joh. Georg; Müller, J. Georg; Müller, Georg; born 1759, Schaffhausen; active in Schaffhausen; died 1819; theologian, author, pedagogue, politician; Swiss theologian, pedagogue and statesman; professor of Hebrew and Greek, Gymnasium Schaffhausen; from 1803 in the cantonal council (Kantonrat)) Deutsche Biographie online, Jan. 24, 2014: (access point: Müller, Johann Georg; Reformed theologian, author; born Sept. 3, 1759, Neunkirch, Schaffhausen Canton; died Nov. 20, 1819 in Schaffhausen; went 1759 to Zurich to study theology, strongly influenced by Johann Caspar Lavater; 18 months at Göttingen, but alienated by the school's rationalistic-sober approach; deeply influenced by his encounters with Johann Gottfried Herder in Weimar, 1780-1782, and remained in correspondence until the latter's death; returned spring 1782 to Schaffhausen, completing the required theological examinations, but obtaining a position as catechist only in 1788; devoting himself to the classical literature studies, appointed 1794 as professor of Greek and Hebrew at the Collegium humanitatis, the Schaffhausen college-preparatory school, and further appointments in 1804 (until 1815) as encyclopedic and methodological professor ("Professuren der Enzyklopädie und Methologie") as well as aesthetics; outbreak of the French Revolution caused much turmoil in Swiss politics, and M. chose 1798 to quit the ecclesiastical estate to become a politician, serving both at the national and cantonal levels, while continuing his activities as teacher and school director; from 1803 on also devoted himself to scientific activities, and publication of church-historical works, a collected works of Herder, and of his own brother Johannes, with whom he was in close, life-long contact; 1800-1819 librarian of the municipal library, Schaffhausen) OCLC, Feb. 14, 2014 (usages: Johann Georg Müller [primary usage], J. G. Müller, Joh. Georg Müller)
Associated language	ger