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Enrique Muller

American photographer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ23822736
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Enrique Muller (December 1846 - ?) was a German-American photographer for the United States Navy. He was known as the "daredevil photographer" for his unique perspectives when photographing moving ships.

Biography

He was born in December 1846 in Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1865 and married Mary around 1874. Together they had six children, and two became photographers, Theodore Muller and Robert Enrique Muller.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1846, 1865, 1874—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1846-12. For this dossier, Enrique, Muller and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Enrique Muller” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.