Name Gustav Mueller | ||
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Died July 10, 1987, Bern, Switzerland Books Dialectic: A Way Into and Within Philosophy | ||
Gustav Emil Mueller (May 12, 1898 – July 10, 1987) was a Hegelian scholar and philosopher, who received a doctorate in philosophy in 1923 from the University of Bern. He studied also at the University of Heidelberg. After teaching in European universities and joining the faculty of the University of Oregon in 1925, he became a professor of philosophy at the University of Oklahoma in 1930 where he remained on the faculty until his retirement in 1968. He then returned to Bern, Switzerland where he continued to work and write until the end of his life.
His parents were Gustav Adolf Arthur Mueller (Müller) (1860 - 1923) and Therese Schwarzenbach (1862 -1956). Both of his grandfathers were also professors. Johann Müller was a professor of mathematics at Bern Gymnasium and Valentin Schwarzenbach was professor of chemistry at the University of Bern.
He married Renee Frieda Mueller (Müller) (1898 - 1992) in 1925, and they had three children.
He also wrote and published poetry and drama, and composed music. Mueller's collected papers are housed at the University of Oklahoma, Western History Collections. Hegel: The Man, His Vision, and His Work (1959) is considered to be his most important contribution.
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