Eduard Rudolf Müller, born in Zurich in 1953, studied art history and German literature at the University of Zurich and the Freie University of Berlin and completed his doctorate at the University of Potsdam on "Art and architecture in the lyrical work of Johannes Bobrowski".

Eduard Rudolf Müller was a monument conservator for the Canton of Uri for three decades, as well as a member of the Federal Swiss Commission for the Preservation of Monuments, the Federal Commission for the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage and President of ICOMOS Suisse.

He was a lecturer at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Burgdorf, where he taught the "practical monument conservation" module in the postgraduate course in monument conservation. Since his retirement, Eduard Rudolf Müller has been researching the lyrical work of Johannes Bobrowski, in particular his poem "Report".