Johannes Möller was a German historian of Dano-Norwegian descent.

Möller was born in Münster

Münster

Münster is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also capital of the local government region Münsterland...

. He was the son of Jacob Nikolaus Møller, an intellectual who had moved from Norway to which his father Hans Møller had migrated from Denmark. Johannes' paternal grandfather was a doctor of medicine, whereas his uncle Hans Eleonardus

Hans Eleonardus Møller, Sr.

Hans Eleonardus Møller, Sr. was a Norwegian businessperson.-Personal life:Hans Eleonardus Møller was born in 1780 to dr.med. Hans Møller and his wife Eleonore Hedevig, née Rasch. His father had immigrated to Norway from their native Denmark. He was born at Onsø, but grew up at Åkre at Porsgrund...

 was a ship-owner. His brother Bartolomæus became a naval officer.

Johannes' inclination towards the humanities

Humanities

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 stemmed from his father, who had befriended the likes of Henrik Steffens

Henrik Steffens

Henrik Steffens , was a Norwegian-born Danish philosopher, scientist, and poet.He was born at Stavanger, Norway. At the age of fourteen he went with his parents to Copenhagen, where he studied theology and natural science...

, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling , later von Schelling, was a German philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy make him the midpoint in the development of German idealism, situating him between Fichte, his mentor prior to 1800, and Hegel, his former university roommate and erstwhile friend...

 and Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg and also converted to Catholicism

Catholicism

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. Johannes Möller was appointed professor in history at the Catholic University of Leuven

Catholic University of Leuven

The Catholic University of Leuven, or of Louvain, was the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium. The university was founded in 1425 as the University of Leuven by John IV, Duke of Brabant and approved by a Papal bull by Pope Martin V.During France's occupation of Belgium in the...

as early as 1834. His father received an honorary professorship in philosophy there in 1835.

Johannes Möller died in December 1862, less than two weeks after his father.