Heinrich Müller-Breslau

Heinrich Franz Bernhard Müller (May 13, 1851 in Breslau – April 24, 1925 in Grunewald, Berlin, known as Müller-Breslau from around 1875 to distinguish him from other people with similar names) was a German civil engineer and high school teacher.

[4] He brought the previously separate elements of classical structural analysis together in a unified theory of beams and frames.

After finishing school in 1869, he fought in the Franco-Prussian War, after which he began to study at the Berlin Trade Academy in 1871.

He also attended lectures in mathematics taught by Elwin Bruno Christoffel and Karl Weierstrass at Berlin University.

Based on this teaching he compiled his first textbook Elementares Handbuch der Festigkeitslehre (Elementary handbook of the strength of materials) in 1875.