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adds Ramus, “ at the dove of Archytas, fince Nuremberg 
can fhow a fly and an eagle armed with geometrical 
wings.” 
MUL'LER, the name of three Dutch engravers of the 
fixteenth century. 
Herman Muller was a native of Holland, but we 
know not the precife time or place of his birth. He 
worked in conjunction with Cornelius Cort, in the earlier 
part of the career of that artift, for Jerome Cock. The 
foie inflrument of his art was the graver, which he handled 
with tolerable precifion, but not much freedom. In 
his belt works his drawing is performed with care ; and in 
his latter works he aimed at the bold and free llyle of 
Goltzius, which had by this time excited the furprife of 
molt of his contemporaries, and the admiration of fome; 
but in this endeavour our artift was not very fuccefsful. 
John Muller, of the fame family, was an artift of 
more vigorous powers. He was born in the year i570, as 
is fuppofed at Amfterdam; but how he flood related to 
Herman is not known. His vigour, however, as an artift, 
was not wifely employed, like that of an Hercules ; but 
rather extravagantly lavilhed ; he fwaggered like a giant 
of romance. Studying under Henry Goltzius at his worft 
period, he learned to exceed even his excefies. He caught 
the enthufiafm of that great artift, but fell fhort of him in 
judgment and variety. The modefty of Nature was with 
Muller, as with Spranger, entirely out of the queftion, 
and the more he could out-herod Herod in his manual 
execution and ftyle of defign, (efpecially when engraving 
after Bartholomew Spranger,) the better he appears to 
have pleafed himfelf. Hence fome of his extravagancies 
are fcarcely lefs ludicrous than others are ferioully furprif- 
ing. Watelet fays of him, that “ he handled the graver 
with the greateft freedom, and will ever be worthy of the 
attention of thofe artifts who wilh to diltinguifh them- 
Telves in the mechanical part of engraving; but they mull 
learn to fubdue the audacity of his ftyle. It is very diffi¬ 
cult to employ lefs work than Muller, in rendering the 
textures of objebls; and he always worked his plates up 
to a good tone. He underftood the human figure well; 
but, from engraving much after Adrian Vries and Bartho¬ 
lomew Spranger, acquired a mannered habit of drawing, 
which particularly difcovered itfelf in his hands and feet.” 
To this eftimate of his merits, Strutt adds, “ the facility 
With which he handled the graver, for he worked with 
that inflrument only, cannot be fufficient exprefled ; his 
works muft be feen to convey a proper idea of it to the 
mind, yet, if in freedom of execution he equalled his maf- 
ter, in every other requifite he fell far fhort of him,” &c. 
That Solomon Muller was of the fame family with 
Herman and John, as Strutt has conjeblured, appears very 
doubtful, if not altogether an error. He fometimes wrote 
his name Miller; and is fo utterly deftitute of the talent 
and enthufiafm of the Mullers, that he appears, from his 
fmall Bible-prints, rather to have copied the worft of the 
'Wierixes, with equal neatnefs, but with deeper dulnefs. 
MUL'LER (John), a learned German Lutheran divine, 
and celebrated controverlial writer, was born at Breflaw, 
the capital of Siiefia, in the year 1598. After having 
gone through his courfe of grammar-learning, he com¬ 
menced the ltudy of philofophy and divinity in his native 
city, and at the age of twenty entered of the univerfity 
of Wittemberg. Here he purfued his ftudies with un¬ 
common afliduity, and about the year 1619 took the de¬ 
gree of mafter of philofopliy with great applaufe. He 
now removed for a fhort time to the univerfity of Leipfic ; 
and, returning afterwards to Wittemberg, in 1622 he was 
appointed to the profeftorfhip of moral philofopliy. Two 
years after this he was admitted a licentiate in divinity, 
and in 1627 accepted an invitation to become pallor of 
the church of St. Peter and St. Paul at Hamburg. In 
this city he lived till he was fenior minifter; was ap¬ 
pointed infpedlor of the fchools and churches; was fre¬ 
quently confulted in ecclefiaftical affairs, by the princes of 
Brunfwkk. Brandenburg, and the Palatinate; and ac= 
L E R. 
quired great celebrity by his numerous writings in de- 
fence of the proteftant caufe againft the papifts, as well as 
by his other various and controverfial produftions. He 
expired fuddenly at church, when about to enter the pul¬ 
pit, in 1673, at the age of feventy-five. Witte Diarium 
BiOjr. 
MUL'LER (John), a celebrated divine and preacher at 
Zurich in the leventeenth century. Though we are fup- 
plied with no materials relative to his perfonal liiftory, 
excepting that he was living in the year 1678, yet the va¬ 
rious literature requifite for the production of his nu¬ 
merous works feems to entitle him to this flight notice. 
The principal of them are, 1. Quseftione milcellanse de 
Muhammedonorum Deo. 2. De Perfico Twafi Penta- 
teuchs. 3. De Sadducaeis, 1653. 4. Dyas Quseftionum 
de Nomine Jefu et Verfione ^Ethiopica, 1654. 5. Difpu- 
tationes de Hiftoriae Definitione, 1659.- 6. De Sacris 
Scriptoribus in Genere. 7. De Evangelica Magorum Hil- 
toria. 8. De Scriptis S. Matthsei, 1660. 9. Heptas Qusef- 
tionum de Nativitatis Chrifti Fefto, 1672, 10. Vindicise 
Locorum Vet. Tellament, Gen. i. iii. u. Horologium 
pcenitentiale. 12. Tuba Jodis. 13. Speculum poeniten- 
tiale. 14. TraClatus de Monachatu et Euchariftia,-&c. 
Moreri. 
MUL'LER (Henry), a learned German Lutheran di¬ 
vine and theological profeflor, was born at Lubeck, in 
the year 1631. He commenced the ftudy of oriental li¬ 
terature and philofophy at Roftock ; and in 1647 he was 
fent to the univerfity of Grypfwalde, in Pomerania, where 
he continued three years, ftudying divinity as well as the 
other branches of academical learning. In the year 1651 
he was admitted to the degree of mafter of philofophy; 
after which he fpent about two years in increafing his 
flock of knowledge, at the univerfities of Leipfic and 
Wittemberg. In 1363 he returned to Roftock, of which 
place his father was a refpeClable citizen ; and in the fol¬ 
lowing year was promoted by the fenate to the dignity 
of archdeacon. Six years afterwards he was appointed 
Greek profeflor in the univerfity; and in 1660, he re¬ 
ceived the degree of dodlor of divinity at Helmftadt, after 
paffing through the ufual exercifes on fuch occafions with 
univerfal applaufe. In 1662, he was chofen pallor of St. 
Mary’s at Hamburgh, and fuperintendent of the churches 
in that diftrift; and not long afterwards he was nominated 
to the profefforlhip of divinity in that city, which he held 
with great reputation during about eight years. In 1671, 
he was appointed fuperintendent of Roftock; whence fub- 
fequent invitations to feveral other places could not in¬ 
duce him to remove, and where he thrice filled the poll 
of re6lorof the univerfity. He died of an inveterate fcor- 
butic diforder in 1675, at the early age of forty-four. He 
was the author of feveral works which are held in much 
eftimation, among which are, 1. Harmonia Veteris et Novi 
Teftamenti. 2. Theologia Scholaftica. 3. Orator Eccle- 
fiafticus. 4. Methodus Politica. 5. Tradlatus de Pceni- 
tentia; and feveral pradlical, devotional, and mifcellane- 
ous, pieces in the German language. Witte Diarium Biog. 
MUL'LER (Andrew), a celebrated German writer, a 
native of Pomerania, was born in 1630. At the age of fix- 
teen he was fent to the univerfity of Roftock; and became 
in a fhort time diltinguilhed for his compofitions in the 
Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, poetry. After this he ftudied 
at Konigfberg and Wittemberg; and became fo complete¬ 
ly mafter of the oriental languages, that he was invited to 
England by Walton, to alfift him in his famous Polyglott 
Bible, on which, and on Caftelli’s Lexicon, he laboured 
with incredible diligence for the fpace of ten years. Af¬ 
ter his return to Germany, he became infpeftor at Bernau, 
and provoft at Berlin. He found the duties of thele of¬ 
fices incompatible with his oriental ftudies, religned them 
in a fhort time, and devoted himfelf wholly to his favourite 
purfuits. At Stettin, whither he retired, he publilhed, 
with obfervations, lpecimens of the Lord’s Prayer in lix- 
ty-fix alphabets. He was intimately acquainted with the 
Ghinefe, and promiled to draw up a Claris Sinica, which 
z he 
