Sigurd Müller (writer)

Sigurd Müller in the 1860s.

Sigurd Hjorth Müller (21 December 1844 – 2 December 1918) was a Danish educator and writer.

He was born in Snedsted. Following his education, he was a teacher, worked for Dagbladet and Morgenbladet, and was a headmaster in Kolding from 1886 to 1901.

He was also a translator, public lecturer, poet, textbook writer, encyclopedic contributor, literary historian and art critic. He was the father of Paul Læssøe Müller.

Sigurd Müller's writing career began purely aesthetically with a collection of Poems (1867), followed in 1872 by the translation: Five Poems of Theocritus and in 1874 Three Tales . Gradually, art history studies occupied him more and more, and the results of these are available in a variety of smaller articles in Dagbladet, Morgenbladet and Ude og Hjemme, in Kortfattet Kunsthistorie (1883), Nyere dansk Malerkunst (1884) and Thorvaldsen, hans Liv og hans Værker (1893). He has also been very active as a schoolbook author, and his Håndbog i den danske Litteratur (1880) and his Kortfattet dansk Litteraturhistorie (1881) were among the most widely used aids in teaching Danish literary history.