Friedrich Max Müller

Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900) was a German philologist and orientalist, born at Dessau, son of a German poet, Wilhelm Müller. He was educated at Leipzig, also studied at Paris, and came to England in 1846. He was appointed Taylorian Professor at Oxford in 1854, and in 1868 professor of Comparative Philology there, a science to which he has made large contributions. Besides editing the "Rig-Veda," he has published "Lectures on the Science of Language" and "Chips from a German Workshop," dealing therein not merely with the origin of languages, but that of the early religious and social systems of the East.

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