Obituary for Ludolf M�ller

[Andrea Hacker]

Ludolf Müller, one of Germany’s most preeminent Slavists, died on April 22,
2009 in Tübingen.  He was 92 years old.
A student of Dmitrii Chizhevsky, Ludolf Müller wrote his dissertation on
Vladimir Solovev before he went on to receive his habilitation in theology.
 This unique combination of expertise informed his many works on medieval
Russian texts, on Fedor Dostoyevsky and on the symbolists.  In his numerous
monographs, articles, reviews and annotated translations Ludolf Müller
offered large humanist contexts, never hesitating to draw on a variety of
subjects: philosophy, historiography, textual philology and, of course,
theology.  His sensitivity to and grasp of the Russian literary language
became manifest in the more than 700 poems that he rendered into German, as
well as in his invaluable translations of  medieval texts, such as the
Primary Chronicle and the works of Ilarion. 
The department of Slavic Studies at Tübingen University began with Ludolf
Müller when he joined in 1961.  He retired in 1982.
Those that worked with him appreciated his integrity, his warmth, his
readiness to help and his tolerance towards new ideas – it is these
qualities that make the loss of this great scholar particularly saddening.

Andrea Hacker, Tübingen

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