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The Austrian Orientalist David Heinrich Müller (1846‒1912) was born in Buczacz (Buchach, present-day Ukraine), then part of the Austrian Empire, and educated in Vienna, Leipzig, and Strasbourg. After initially focusing on biblical and Hebrew studies, he turned to Arabic philology, writing his doctoral dissertation on Kitāb al-Farq (The book of rare animals) by philologist, anthologist, and zoologist ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Qurayb al-Asmaʻi (740‒circa 828). In 1881 Müller became professor of Semitic philology at the University of Vienna. He is particularly known for his archaeological, geographic, epigraphic, and linguistic ...