Frederick Möller was born the son of George and Engel Bolsing Möller on January 17, 1829, at Kloster, Hanover, Germany. Brother Pirmian followed seminary courses in Germany and the United States before entering the Novitiate in Montreal at age twenty-seven. His first teaching assignment was at Saint Vincent's elementary school in St. Louis. In the summer of 1866 he succeeded Brother Davy as Director of Novices at the Novitiate recently established in the former seminary building in Carondelet. Two years later he was assigned to San Francisco and became one of the founding Brothers of the California District. In 1870 he became Director of Novices in Oakland, California. From 1875 to 1879 he was Sub-Director of his community and procurator to San Francisco. He was assigned again as Director of the Novitiate which had now moved to Martinez. In 1895 he retired to St. Mary's College of California where he taught German. He died on February 4, 1902, at the age of seventy-three and in his 46th year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.
