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Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900)
Müller, Friedrich Maximilian (mül’ler) [Universally known in England and America as “Max Müller”]. A celebrated German-English Sanskrit scholar and comparative philologist, son of Wilhelm Müller the poet; born at Dessau, Dec. 6, 1823; died at Oxford, Oct. 28, 1900. Removing to England (1846), he became professor of modern languages and literature (1854), and professor of comparative philology (1868–75), at Oxford. He edited and translated the ‘Hitopadeça’ (1844), and edited the ‘Rig-Veda’ (6 vols., 1849–74), etc. He wrote: ‘History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature’ (2d ed. 1860); ‘Science of Language’ (latest ed. 1891); ‘Chips from a German Workshop’ (Latest ed. 1895); ‘Science of Religion’ (1870); ‘Essays on Language, Mythology, and Religion’ (1881); ‘Science of Thought’ (1887); the novel ‘German Love’; and was the editor of the series ‘Sacred Books of the East,’ issued by the Clarendon Press at Oxford. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).