The Mueller Surname and Homeopathy
The Mueller (Muller) surname was instrumental in supporting Samuel Hahnemann in the early days of homeopathy, and the Mueller name is intrinsically connected to the success of the establishment of homeopathy Worldwide.
Adam Heinrich Muller 1779 - 1829 was an influential theologian who was part of Emperor Franz’s entourage. Adam Heinrich Muller was an enthusiastic advocate of homeopathy, and he did much to publicise it widely.
Adam Heinrich Muller was a German publicist, literary critic, political economist, theorist of the state and forerunner of economic romanticism. Muller was born in Berlin.
It was intended that he should study Protestant theology, but from 1798 he devoted himself in Göttingen to the study of law, philosophy, and natural science. Returning to Berlin, he was persuaded by his friend Friedrich Gentz to take up political science. After working for some time as referendary in the Kurmärkische Kammer in Berlin, he travelled in Sweden and Denmark, spent about two years in Poland, and then went to Vienna, where he was converted to the Catholic faith on April 30, 1805.
From 1806 to 1809, he lived at Dresden as tutor of a prince of the Saxe-Weimar family and lecturer on German literature, dramatic art, and political science. In 1808 he edited with Heinrich von Kleist the periodical Phoebus. In 1809, he returned to Berlin, and in 1811 to Vienna, where he lived in the house of Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este and became the friend of Clemens Maria Hofbauer.
In 1813 he was appointed imperial commissioner and major of the rifle-corps in Tyrol, and took part in the wars for liberty and later on, as counsellor of the government, in the reorganization of the country. In 1815 he was called to Vienna, and went to Paris with the imperial staff.
On the conclusion of peace, he became Austrian consul general for Saxony at Leipzig, and agent for Anhalt and Schwarzburg. He edited here the periodicals Deutscher Staatsanzeiger (1816-1818) and Unparteiischer Literatur - und Kirchenkorrespondent, and attended the ministerial conferences at Carlsbad and Vienna (1819-1820). In 1826, at the instance of Prince von Metternich, he was ennobled as Ritter von Nittersdorf, was recalled to Vienna (1827), appointed imperial counsellor, and employed in the service of the chancellery.
He died in Vienna in 1829, aged 49…
In the field of literature and aesthetics, Muller belongs to the Romantic school. He is a Romanticist even in his specialty, politics and political economy. As Eichendorff says in his Geschichte der poetischen Literatur Deutschlands, Muller “mapped out a domain of his own, the application of Romanticism to the social and political conditions of life.” Muller himself declares: “The reconciliation of science and art and of their noblest ideas with serious political life was the purpose of my larger works”.
His chief work is the Elemente der Staatskunst, originating in lectures delivered before Prince Bernhard of Saxe Weimar and an assembly of politicians and diplomats at Dresden in the winter, 1808-09. It treats in six books of the state, of right, of the spirit of legislation in antiquity and in the Middle Ages, of money and national wealth, of the economical factors of the state and trade, of the relation between the state and religion.
Muller endeavoured to comprehend the connexion between political and social science, and, while using the historical method, to base them upon philosophy and religion. (Cf. the preface to the first volume of the Elemente, where he treats exhaustively the differences between his work and Montesquieu’s De l’esprit des lois; cf. also the sixth book of this work, and the above-mentioned work of 1820.) With Edmund Burke, Friedrich von Gentz, Joseph de Maistre, and Karl Ludwig von Haller, he must be reckoned among the chief opponents of revolutionary ideas in politics.
In his work, Von der Notwendigkeit einer theologischen Grundlage der gesamten Staatswissenschaften (1820), Müller rejects, like Haller (Restauration der Staatswissenschaften, 1816), the distinction between constitutional and civil law (common law), which rests entirely on the false idea of the state’s omnipotence. His ideal is medieval feudalism, on which the reorganization of modern political institutions should be modelled.
His position in political economy is defined by his strong opposition to Adam Smith’s system of materialistic liberal (so called classical) political economy, or the so called industry system. He is thus also an adversary of free trade. In contrast with the economical individualism of Adam Smith, he emphasizes the ethical element in national economy, the duty of the state toward the individual, and the religious basis which is also necessary in this field.
Muller’s importance in the history of political economy is acknowledged even by the opponents of his religious and political point of view. His reaction against Adam Smith, says Roscher (Geschichte der National-Ökonomik, p. 763), “is not blind or hostile, but is important, and often truly helpful.”
The reactionary and feudalistic thought in Muller’s writings, which agreed so little with the spirit of the times, prevented his political ideas from exerting a more notable and lasting influence on his age, while their religious character prevented them from being justly appreciated. However, Muller’s teachings had long term effects in that they were taken up again by 20th century theorists of corporatism and the corporate state, for example Othmar Spann…
Augustus Muller was the grandson of Johann Augustine Muller, who was a teacher of Samuel Hahnemann.
Augustus Muller was also a trained homeopath, having studied the subject under two of the most eminent doctors in Paris, and he is the founder of the Fr. Muller Medical College in Mangalore.
Fr. Muller Medical College, located about a kilometre from the National Highway-17 (the Mumbai - Mangalore highway) at Kankanady in Mangalore, is a religious minority educational institution forming a part of Fr. Muller’s Charitable Institutions. It is famous for being one of the oldest hospitals in Mangalore, a coastal town on the west coast of India with five other medical colleges to its credit.
Fr. Muller’s Hospital, a well known household name, opened its doors to the people of South Canara in 1880. It started when Fr Augustus Muller S.J., a German Jesuit priest dispensed homeopathic medicines under a Banyan tree.
It then went on to become a Leprosy Hospital (now known as the St Joseph’s Leprosy Hospital) and then into a fully fledged hospital. Its started the School of Nursing which offered Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) and later College Of Nursing which offered degree in Bachelor of Nursing Science.
The medical college started in 1991 with postgraduate courses and then went on to include other courses under its banner, including the Bachelors in Physiotherapy (1994-95) and then Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) course in 1999. Fr Mullers also boasts of a beautiful chapel - The St. Joseph’s Chapel, inaugurated in 2005 - the Post-Centennial Silver Jubilee Year of Fr. Muller Charitable Institutions.
Clotar Moriz Mueller 1818 - 1877 was the son of Moritz Wilhelm Mueller and he was an early advocate of homeopathy, and an editor of a German homeopathic Periodical.
Clotar also submitted case histories to The British Journal of Homoeopathy in 1854, and to the Session of the American Institute of Homœopathy published in 1906, and many more papers and articles on homeopathy.
Clotar Mueller was active in proving remedies and his writings were influential in the spread of homeopathy.
Clotar Mueller helped Frantz Hartmann run the dispensary clinic at the homeopathic Leipsig hospital and present at the Liga World Homeopathic Convention:
Volume II, The History of Homeopathy, contains contributions both foreign and domestic. Appropriately enough, the first section is a 90 page history of homeopathy in Germany 1794-1875, including statistics about certain hospitals and dispensaries, written by Gustav Puhlman and Clotar Mueller.
Clotar Mueller wrote Der homöopathische Haus- und Familienarzt… , Kortfattet homøopathisk laegemiddellaere… , Die Quellen der Arzneimittellehre, Charakteristik von dreissig der wichtigsten homöopatischen Heilmittel behufs, and many articles and papers.
Gustav Adolph Mueller 1863 -
Gustav Adolph Mueller was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born November 10, 1863, in Cresline, Ohio, and was educated for the practice of medicine at Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, receiving from that institution in 1885 the degree of M. D.
He is connected with the staff of the Pittsburgh Homeopathic Hospital, and is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania and the Allegheny County Homeopathic Medical Society.
Hugbald Volker Muller 1921 - 2000
Ulrich Welte and colleagues have developed this work. He writes, “Case taking can acquire a new dimension, in a relaxed state the patient should look at the colour circle or spectrum, scan all the colours and then tell spontaneously in which area he feels best”
Explaining how disease corresponds to colour preference, Ulrich Welte states that “These vibrations ‘dye’ in the mind… Colour preference is of course not a disease but it may be connected to a diseases like a particular soil favouring growth of a particular weed”.
According to Jan Scholten, Hugbold Volker Muller “discovered that not only has Conium a desire for darkness but also for the colour black. His intuition led him to the idea that every remedy will have its preference. He checked it and it turned out to be correct”…
The remedy lists do have some names which are unfamiliar, such as the Epstein Barr Virus Nosode (EBV-Nos). I asked the publisher and was told that Hugbold Volker Muller had developed some knowledge of new remedies, especially unusual nosodes, and that this information will be published in due course…
Hugbold Volker Muller began to assess cured patients for colour preferences nearly 20 years ago, using an existing colour reference book. He was able to confirm 26 remedies in his first publication. By the time he began to pass his information on to Ulrich Welte, he had confirmed 90 remedies.
Ulrich Welte worked for 13 years with colleagues like Herbert Sigwart to develop this system, and a retrospective study has been published.
Incidentally Hugbold Volker Muller also worked on styles of handwriting. The next step for Ulrich Welte will be to build upon more of Hugbold Volker Muller’s work and relate colour preference to handwriting and then to relate handwriting to remedy selection…
The “color of a remedy” was established purely clinical, i.e. from good cases and not from provings. The first hypothesis was that a favorite color represents an individual basic feeling. The second hypothesis was that the handwriting is another unique and direct expression of the individual, but a symptom of quite another kind (unfortunately not to be standardized so easily), and that these two together can be sufficient to determine a deep-acting remedy, if the remedy also covers the main directions of the pathology.
Detailed standardized color tests plus the handwritings of thousands of patients were collected (written on unlined paper, A4 size in Germany), and very good or deeply improved cases were compared.
Now these cases showed that people cured by the same remedy often revealed the same color and similar handwritings.
The specific colors were then taken as new repertory rubrics, and today, if a new patient gives one or two favorite colors, we can use these rubrics and look at all the remedies indicated by them.
If there is a remedy suggested, which could match the case, we can also look at the handwritings of all patients cured by this remedy. If they are of similar features, it is another strong pointer for this remedy.
All in all, including our cases, an estimated number of 50.000 or more homeopathic color tests have been performed, of which perhaps 10.000 cases have become relevant for the extraction of the remedy-colors. The definite choice was made only by the best cases of similar color and handwriting, and about 3000 cured or deeply improved patients contributed to this sifting process.
Up to now, about 280 remedies are well defined with a preferred color, and about 170 are under further testing. In our experience, we have verified Hugbold Volker Muller’s hypotheses many times by fine cures. We have built on his experience and invented new tools to make the choice of the color easier and more reliable. Of course in the mentioned Indian cases the handwriting was not used. Here only the favorite color was applied as a symptom.
Josef Muller 1773-1852 influenced Joseph Attomyr to become a homeopath when they met in the Curassier Regiment. Joseph Attomyr became a student of Josef Muller in Budapest after their military service.
Moritz Wilhelm Mueller (Muller) 1784 - 1849. Early in 1821, Leipzig physicians attempted to attack Samuel Hahnemann’s new homeopathy by claiming that the current epidemic was scarlet fever and recommending belladonna.
Samuel Hahnemann said that the epidemic was not scarlet fever, and independently, so did Moritz Wilhelm Mueller, thus dissolving the attack on homeopathy.
Ironically, it was through belladonna and the homeopathic treatment of scarlet fever that first converted Moritz Wilhelm Mueller, a general practitioner in Voigtland, to homeopathy in the first instance.
Characteristically, Samuel Hahnemann attacked Moritz Wilhelm Mueller, though he does refer to him in his letters as ‘my colleague‘.
The writings of Moritz Wilhelm Mueller and others spread homeopathy across Europe and beyond.
Moritz Wilhem Mueller was active in the Homeopathic Society in 1832 and became a director of the Leipsig Society in 1833, and he treated the famous publisher C H Reclam, thus even more books on homeopathy were published.
Moritz Wilhelm Mueller was instrumental in the opening of the homeopathic Leipsig hospital in 1833, and he wrote to Samuel Hahnemann to inform him of developments concerning this hospital. However, he resigned as Director of the Leipsig Hospital shortly thereafter.
Mortiz Wilhem Mueller and Samuel Hahnemann had a final falling out in 1834 when Samuel Hahnemann visited Leipsig Hospital, and Moritz Wilhelm Mueller attacked Samuel Hahnemann in his writings.
The earliest followers of homeopathy were attracted by Samuel Hahnemann since 1812, when he started delivering lectures at the Leipzig University. From the very beginning it became evident that no unity amongst homeopaths was possible.
Samuel Hahnemann and an insignificant part of his followers insisted that only pure homeopathy should be applied, whilst most new converts, headed by the future Director of the Leipzig homeopathic hospital, Moritz Wilhelm Mueller did not wish to give up allopathy altogether.
To avoid the split, both camps signed on August 2nd, 1833 the document proposed by Samuel Hahnemann, which established the main principles of homeopathy and its application:
1. Strict and unqualified adherence to the principle of the Similia similibus and consequently
2. Avoidance of all antipathetic methods of treatment [in which symptoms are confronted with their opposites in order to suppress them, according to 23 of the Organon of Medicine], wherever it is possible to attain the objective by homeopathic remedies; and therefore the greatest possible
3. Avoidance of all positive remedies [i.e., having a certain effect] and those weakening by their after-effect, consequently the avoidance of all bleeding, of all evacuation upwards and downwards, of all remedies causing pain, inflammation or blisters, of burning, of punctures, etc.
4. Avoidance of all remedies selected and destined only to stimulate, whose after-effect is weakening in every case. [...]By the inclusion of the words “wherever it is possible” and “greatest possible”, the “free” Leipzig members, were enabled to sign the agreement, which Samuel Hahnemann signed first.
Moritz Wilhelm Mueller [...], in order not to be regarded as the inciter or seducer of others, [...] signed last of all.
Of interest:
Originating from the Muller Göppingen company (founded in 1921), Staufen Pharma has been producing homeopathic (and spagiric) simplexes and complexes since 1956…
With the establishment of the “Homòopatische Zentral Apotheke (Central Homeopathic Pharmacy)” in Göppingen around 1865, the foundations for one of the first homeopathic pharmacies in Württemberg were laid. It was from this location that pharmacist Carl Müller founded the “Müller Göppingen chemical–pharmaceutical factory” in 1921.
In 1956, the preparation of homeopathic and spagiric medicinal products passed into the hands of Staufen Pharma.
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