Herbert J. Muller


Herbert J. Muller was an American historian, academic, government official and author. He was educated at Cornell University. He taught at Cornell, Purdue and Indiana University, served in the Department of State, the War Production Board, and frequently lectured abroad.
He is the author of The Uses of the Past, a sweeping inquiry into the lessons of history, focusing on Rome & Greece, Christianity & Judaism, the Byzantine empire, the Middle Ages, and Russia & China.
In 1973 Muller was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto II.
Herbert Muller's two sons are Richard and John. His grandfather Otto Muller was the younger brother of Hermann J. Muller, the father of American geneticist Hermann Joseph Muller Jr. Great-grandfather Nicholas Muller came to the United States from Germany in 1848 and with his brother Karl founded the Muller Art Metal Works.

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