George Müller

Born in Prussia in 1805 as Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, he later settled in England and became widely known as George Müller. He is remembered as a Christian evangelist and as the founder and director of the orphan work at Ashley Down in Bristol.

Müller’s name is closely tied to the care of orphaned children. The charity that grew from his work says he cared for 10,000 children during the Victorian era, and the Bristol orphan houses became one of the best-known examples of large-scale charitable care in nineteenth-century Britain.

He was also known for supporting his ministry and charitable work without making public appeals for money, a practice that made his life story especially influential for later Christian readers. He died in Bristol in 1898, but his legacy continued through the institution he founded and through the many biographies and memoirs that kept his story alive.