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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Muller, Herbert Joseph
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- Herbert J. Muller
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Description area
Dates of existence
1905-1980
History
Herbert Joseph Muller was born in Mamaroneck, New York, July 7, 1905. He attended Cornell University where he received his B.A. (1925), his M.A. (1926), and his Ph.D. (1932). He first taught English at Cornell and then went in 1935 to the English Department at Purdue University, where he rose from instructor to full professor in ten years. After serving first as Visiting Critic at Indiana University (1953-54), he moved from Lafayette to Bloomington in 1956 when he was appointed Professor of English and Government. He held his rank for three years until he was named Distinguished Professor of English and Government in 1959, relinquishing his connection with the Government Department in 1968. He retired in 1973 as Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English. During his years of teaching and writing he held two additional visiting professorships, twice at the University of Istanbul, 1947-47 and 1951-51, and at New York University, 1958-59.
He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1939-40; a grant from the Fund for the Republic in 1957 to work on the papers of Lord Acton; Sigma Delta Chi's Brown Derby for the most popular teacher at Indiana University at 1957; in 1960 a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to work on the history of freedom; that same year a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford; and from Purdue University, with which Herb never lost his warm ties, an honorary degree, the D. Litt. in 1961. He died in 1980.