Pieter Lodewijk Muller


Pieter Lodewijk Muller was a Dutch historian. He published numerous works of history and also contributed nearly two hundred entries to the German Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.

Life

Pieter Lodewijk Muller was born in Koog aan de Zaan, the third son of Christiaan Muller and Isabella Muller de Cercq. Christiaan Muller was a Mennonite preacher in Koog aan de Zaan and Zaandijk. His mother, who came from a prosperous Dutch family, died when he was only two. The Muller name, written in older documents as Müller, reflected the family's German provenance. Pieter's grandfather, Samuel, and his great uncle, Johannes, had relocated around 1800 from Krefeld to Amsterdam to set up a bookshop. Pieter's uncle, Frederik Muller had by 1842 taken over the business and became celebrated as an Amsterdam book dealer and publisher.

''Output''

Muller also wrote numerous essays on Dutch history for academic journals
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Evaluation

Muller's academic contribution was above all to the history of the Netherlands since independence: his various books on the Dutch Golden Age became standard works.