Kurt Mueller-Vollmer (28 June 1928 - 3 August 2019), born in Hamburg, was an American philosopher and professor of German Studies & Humanities at Stanford University.
Mueller-Vollmer studied in Germany, France, Spain and the United States.
He holds a master's degree in American Studies from Brown University, Providence (USA) and a doctorate in German Studies and Humanities from Stanford University where he taught for over 40 years.
His major publications concentrate in the areas of Hermeneutics, Comparative Literature and the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt.Mueller-Vollmer was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2000.
He also was awarded with the Wilhelm-von-Humboldt-Foundation Award presented in a public ceremony at the Humboldt University in Berlin on June 22, 2007.
He passed on August 3, 2019.