Werner Müller (ethnologist)
Encyclopedia
Werner Müller was a German ethnologist and symbologist. His principal field of research, and the subject of several books, was the Native American
mythology
and literature of North America
, though his studies of the sacral patterns in the founding of European settlements (e.g. Kreis und Kreuz, 1938: Die heilige Stadt, 1961) were also substantial.
He obtained his doctorate in 1930 under Carl Clemen and was appointed university lecturer in 1942 in Ethnology
at the Straßburg
Reichs-University.
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
mythology
Mythology
The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...
and literature of North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
, though his studies of the sacral patterns in the founding of European settlements (e.g. Kreis und Kreuz, 1938: Die heilige Stadt, 1961) were also substantial.
He obtained his doctorate in 1930 under Carl Clemen and was appointed university lecturer in 1942 in Ethnology
Ethnology
Ethnology is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity.-Scientific discipline:Compared to ethnography, the study of single groups through direct...
at the Straßburg
Strasburg
-Places:*Strasbourg, a city in Alsace *Straßburg, Austria, in Carinthia*Strasburg, Germany, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania*the former name of Brodnica, became Polish after World War I*Strassburg, the German name for Aiud, Alba...
Reichs-University.
Works
- Die ältesten amerikanischen Sintfluterzählungen (PhD dissertation 1930)
- Kreis und Kreuz. Untersuchungen zur sakralen Siedlung bei Italikern und Germanen (Berlin 1938)
- Die Blaue Hütte. Zum Sinnbild der Perle bei nordamerikanischen Indianern (Wiesbaden 1954)
- Weltbild und Kult der Kwakiutl-Indianer (Wiesbaden 1955)
- Die Religionen der Waldlandindianer Nordamerikas (Berlin 1956)
- 'Die Religionen der Indianervölker Nordamerikas', in: Die Religionen des alten Amerika : Religionen der Menschheit Vol. 7 (Stuttgart 1961).
- Die heilige Stadt. Roma quadrata, himmlisches Jerusalem und die Mythe vom Weltnabel (Stuttgart 1961)
- Glauben und Denken der Sioux. Zur Gestalt archaischer Weltbilder (Berlin 1970)
- Indianische Welterfahrung (Frankfurt 1981)
- Amerika - Die Neue oder die Alte Welt? (1982)
Source
- Berthold Riese: Müller, Werner, in: Neue Deutsche BiographieNeue Deutsche BiographieNeue Deutsche Biographie is a biographical reference work published in German by the Historical Committee at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and printed by Duncker & Humblot in Berlin. It is the successor to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie...
Vol. 18 (Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997), pp. 482–484. (in German)