Pieter Lodewijk Muller
Dutch historian and university professor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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 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. A sickly child, he attended the nearby village school in Koog for as long as possible, but switched when he was nine to the French School in Zaandijk. Between 1861 and 1867 he studied philology and history as a student at Leiden, with a particular focus on Dutch history in the 17th century, known to Dutch scholars as the country's Golden Age . This would remain the core of his work as an historian for the rest of his life. He received his doctorate in December 1867 for a piece of work on the history of government in the Netherlands between 1579 and 1585, which was critical period in the Eighty Years' War, After receiving his doctorate he went to Brussels where he was employed for several months gathering information for the Spanish ambassador. This was followed by a study tour lasting nearly a year which took in Berlin, Dresden, Vienna and Heidelberg. Returning home in April 1869 he settled in Haarlem, to where his father, having remarried, had moved while Pieter was away. He then took a teaching job at the Gymnasium in Leiden.
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