> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 626](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355713) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6734-1) LSID 6734-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62086) QID Q62086 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Müller, Fritz \[Johann Friedrich Theodor\] (1822-1897), German zoologist and flower biologist; studied at Berlin and Greifswald; Dr. phil. Berlin 1844; studied medicine at Greifswald 1845-1848; to Brazil 1852 as farmer and physician in the primeval forest of Santa Catharina (Rio Garcia); from 1856-1857 high school teacher at Desterro; from 1867-1897 at Blumenau as private scientist and (1867-1891) "naturalista viajante" for the Brazilian government. **Abbreviated name**: *Fritz Müll.* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.J.Müll.*\] #### Herbarium and types Material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(2): 508; Barnhart 2: 525; BJI 1: 41; CSP 4: 516-517, 8: 461, 10: 879-880, 12: 524, 17: 401; Herder p. 235; Hortus 3: 1200 (Fritz Müll.); IH 2: 569; LS 2: 18434-18435; Moebius p. 333, 360, 366; Morren ed. 10, p. 140; Rehder 5: 596, 598. - Anon., Arch. Mus. nac. Rio de Janeiro 10: xiii-xv. 1899 (obit.); Bot. Jahrb. 23(Beibl. 57): 60. 1897; Nat. Nov. 13:371. 1891 (loses govt. position because of refusal to move to Rio de Janeiro), 19: 311. 1897 (d.), 20: 339. 1898 (request A. Möller for information); Verh. bot. Ver. Brandenburg 39: cxxii. 1897 (d.), 47: 143. 1906 (on memorial at Blumenau). - Blandford, W. F. H., Nature 56: 546-548. 1897; Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 45: 5-13. 1898 (translation). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 436. 1880 (coll. K). - Dörfler, J., Botaniker-Adressbuch 171. 1896. - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 267, 268. 1977. - Haeckel, E., Jena. Z. Naturw. 31: 156-173. 1898 (obit.). - Hoehne, F., Jard. bot. São Paulo 142. 1941. - Ihering, H. v., Rev. Mus. Paul. 3: 17-29. 1898 (obit., portr.). - Jackson, B. D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 48 (coll. K). - Loew, E., Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 15: (12)-(29). 1897 (obit., bibl.). - Ludwig, F., Bot. Centralbl. 71: 291-302, 347-363, 401-408. 1897 (biogr., account of botanical work, portr.), also reprinted, Cassel 1897, 33 p., "Ueber das Leben und botanische Tätigheit..."). - Mägdefrau, K., Gesch. Bot. 116, 270. 1973. - Möller, A., Bot. Centralbl. 48: 94-95. 1891 (account of dismissal as naturalista viajante by the Brazilian govt.), 74: 335-336. 1898 (request information for biogr.); ed. Fritz Müller, Werke, Briefe und Leben, 3 vols. 1915-1920. (main biogr. source). See also Naturw. Wochenschr. 9: 445-449, 617-621. 1894, 10: 261-265. 1895. - Papavero, N., Essays hist. neotrop. dipterol. 2: 371-374. 1975. - Roquette-Pinto, E., Bol. Mus. nac., Rio de J. 5(2): 1-23. 1929 (portr., "Gloria sem Rumor"). - Schumann, K., Verh. bot. Ver. Brandenburg 39: lxvii-lxix. 1897 (obit., b. 31 Mar 1822, d 21 Mai 1897). - Urban, I., Fl. Bras. 1(1): 67-68. 1906 (b. 31 Mar 1822, d. 21 Mai 1897; extensive biogr. refs.). - Wetekamp, W., Insektenbörse 10: 54-55. 1893 (obit.). #### Eponymy *Muelleramra* O. Kuntze (1891).