Heinrich Müller

Müller, Adam Heinrich (Berlin, 1779-1829, Vienna), ennobled (1826) as Ritter von Nittersdorf and known as Adam Müller, was the son of a Prussian civil servant, and was for a time a private tutor in various aristocratic families. His philosophical essay Die Lehre vom Gegensatze (1804) is said to have influenced Hegel. From 1805, when he became a Roman Catholic while on a visit to Vienna, he lived in Dresden, collaborating in 1808 with H. von Kleist in publishing the periodical Phöbus. In 1809 he published the political treatise Elemente der Staatskunst. From then until 1811 he was again in Prussia, engaged in politics and actively opposing the reforms initiated by Freiherr vom Stein and Hardenberg. In 1811 he returned to Vienna, becoming an Austrian civil servant and accompanying Metternich to Paris in 1815. Müller held strong conservative and authoritarian views, in economics as well as politics, and advocated them in various publications, including Theorie der Staatshaushaltung (2 vols., 1812) and Versuch einer neuen Theorie des Geldes mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Großbritannien (1816). He strongly upheld the principle of nationality, believing the various states to exist by divine sanction. In this religious cast of political thought (demonstrated also in Nothwendigkeit einer theologischen Grundlage der gesammten Staatswissenschaft, 1819), he shows his affinity with Romanticism (see Romantik). He was a friend of F. von Schlegel, who shared his attitudes. Müller held various Austrian diplomatic posts up to 1827, after which he was employed in Vienna.

Kritische, ästhetische und philosophische Schriften (2 vols.), ed. W. Schroeder and W. Siebert, were published in 1967.

Heinrich Müller can refer to:

• Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)
• Heinrich Müller (physiologist)
• Heinrich Müller (footballer)
• Heinrich Müller (theologian)

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