Friedrich von Müller was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 physician

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

 remembered for describing Müller's sign

Müller's sign

Müller's sign is the pulsation or bobbing of the uvula that occurs during systole. It can be seen in patients with severe aortic insufficiency. Müller's sign is caused by an increased stroke volume....

. He was the son of the head of the medical department in the hospital in Augsburg. He studied natural science

Natural science

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s in Munich and medicine in Munich, under Carl von Voit

Carl von Voit

Carl von Voit was a German physiologist and dietitian.Von Voit was born in Amberg. From 1848 to 1854 he studied medicine in Munich and Würzburg; habilitation in 1857 at the University of Munich, professor of physiology since 1860, as well as curator of the physiological collection.Carl von Voit is...

, and Würzburg

Würzburg

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. He was awarded his doctorate in Munich in 1882, and became assistant to Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt

Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt

Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt ; was a German internist born in Speyer....

 in Würzburg and later Berlin

Berlin

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. He was habilitated

Habilitation

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 in internal medicine

Internal medicine

Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists. They are especially skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes...

 in 1888 and became professor of clinical propaedeutics

Propaedeutics

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 and laryngology

Laryngology

Laryngology is that branch of medicine which deals with disorders, diseases and injuries of the vocal apparatus, especially the larynx. Common conditions addressed by laryngologists include vocal fold nodules and cysts, laryngeal cancer, spasmodic dysphonia, laryngopharyngeal reflux, papillomas,...

 in Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

. He moved to Breslau in 1890, Marburg

Marburg

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 in 1892, and Basel

Basel

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 in 1899, before returning to Munich in 1902.

In 1907 he became knight

Knight

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, 1911 Hofrat and 1913 Geheimrat

Geheimrat

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 in the Kingdom of Bavaria

Kingdom of Bavaria

The Kingdom of Bavaria was a German state that existed from 1806 to 1918. The Bavarian Elector Maximilian IV Joseph of the House of Wittelsbach became the first King of Bavaria in 1806 as Maximilian I Joseph. The monarchy would remain held by the Wittelsbachs until the kingdom's dissolution in 1918...

. 1933 he got the Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches (Eagle Shield of the German Empire) with the dedication "DEM GROSSEN KLINIKER" (the great clinician).
In 1922 he became member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina). From 1927 to 1934 he was president of the Deutsche Akademie

Deutsche Akademie

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 a German cultural institute.
1927 the city of Munich made him to a Honorary Citizen (comp.List of honorary citizens of Munich).