Background
He was born at Gleißenberg, Germany, the son of Friedrich Max Müller and the grandson of German romantic poet Wilhelm Müller.
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Wilhelm Muller
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Education
He was educated at Erlangen, Berlin, Munich, and Leipzig, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy He was one of the last students of the Egyptologist Georg Ebers.
Career
Müller emigrated to the United States in 1888. He was a professor at the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia beginning in 1890. During several years (1904, 1906, 1910), he engaged in archaeological work in Egypt for the Carnegie Institution.
He lectured on Egyptology at the University of Pennsylvania, and purchased papyri in Egypt for the University Museum.
He died in a drowning accident in Wildwood, New Jersey, in July 1919.
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