EDITORIAL NOTE. 
The sudden and tragic death of Professor Miiller, on July 12, 1919, while he was spending his 
vacation at the seashore at Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, has closed the work of one of the most 
eminent representatives of Oriental scholarship, known alike in Europe and America. He had 
been an indefatigable student of Egyptology since his school days at the Gymnasium at Niirn- 
berg, Bavaria, when he took up these fascinating studies as an autodidact, and he pursued them 
after his abiturium at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin, and Munich. ‘The first fruit of his labors 
appeared in the year 1893, under the title ‘“‘Europa und Asien nach agyptischen Denkmalern.” 
It was a work which at once drew the attention of the scholarly world upon the author and it 
awakened the hope that Miller would follow up the new road, which he had broken in the field 
of the vealia. In this hope no one was deceived. But Miller showed himself also capable in 
the edition of texts, when in 1899 his “Liebespoesie der alten Agypter’” appeared. In the last 
few years prior to his death he had occupied himself extensively with the Religion and the Myth- 
ology of the ancient Egyptians, the results of which studies are laid down in his ‘Egyptian 
Mythology,”’ which appeared only one year before his death. Under the auspices of the Carnegie 
Institution of Washington he was enabled to make three archeological expeditions to Egypt, the 
land of his boyhood dreams, and he was one of the last to make competent observations on some 
of the temples of the upper Nile. His plans for future scientific researches were numerous, 
and these he had often discussed with me, since for the last three years I had been a pupil of his 
and closely associated with him. During a protracted illness in the fall of 1918, Dr. Miiller had 
expressed the wish that, in case he should be unable to finish a number of his publications, their 
completion should devolve upon me. ‘Thus, after his lamentable death, his family approached 
me with the request that I should put the finishing touches on the present volume. To this I 
gladly consented, after the Carnegie Institution of Washington had approved of my doing so. 
The work was in its final stages when I took charge of it. Nothing has been added to it, although 
in some instances, I am quite sure, Dr. Miiller would have introduced some further additions. 
I have merely added the brackets in the hieroglyphic and demotic texts and elucidated more 
clearly a number of notes where some uncertainty in expression was observable. I am also 
responsible for a few restorations in the text. 
Meany Fb. Lutz, Poe 
Research Instructor in Assyriology and Egyptology 
in the University of Pennsylvania. 
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