Müller, Friedrich Max

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Friedrich Max Müller

(German: Friedrich Max Müller, Фридрих Макс Мюллер)

(6 December 1823 − 28 October 1900)

(1823–1900)

German-born philologist and Orientalist at Oxford University. He edited the Sanskrit Rig Veda and the series Sacred Books of the East, and helped develop the comparative study of language and religion.
Chips from a German Workshop. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1867-75. 4 vols.  (BCW 1:501).
Works listed include Chips from a German Workshop (1867-1875) and Introduction to the Science of Religion (1873). The unidentified title Sâhitya Grantha is tentatively interpreted as a description of his Rigveda-Samhita edition, not a separate work.  (BCW 2:537).
The bibliography cites Chips from a German Workshop (1867-1875).  (BCW 4:661).
Anglo-German Orientalist and comparative philologist (1823-1900), based at Oxford. Edited the Rigveda and the Sacred Books of the East series; wrote on Sanskrit literature, comparative mythology and the study of religion.  (BCW 5:378-379).
His Lectures on the Science of Language are listed in two series, published in London in 1861-1864  (BCW 8:469).

Bibliographical references include: Introduction to the Science of Religion. Four lectures delivered at the Royal Institution. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1873. ix, 11, 403 pp. 8vo. Vide Volume V, pp. 378-79, in the present Series, for biogr. data about the author  (BCW 9:445).

Some links:

Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
CTD article in Russian: Мюллер, Макс
Other resources: Darwin Correspondence Project, Gifford Lectures

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