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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. ohann Friedrich Theodor Müller (31 March 1821 21 May 1897), always known as Fritz, was a German biologist and physician who emigrated to southern Brazil, where he lived in and near the German community of Blumenau, Santa Catarina. There he studied the natural history of the Atlantic forest south of São Paulo, and was an early advocate of Darwinism. He lived in Brazil for the rest of his life. Müllerian mimicry is named after him. Müller was born in the village of Windischholzhausen, near Erfurt in Thuringia, Germany, on March 31, 1821, the son of a minister. Unlike most of his contemporaries in Britain, Müller had what would be seen today as a normal scientific education at the universities of Berlin and Greifswald, culminating in a doctoral degree. Then, he decided to study medicine.