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Friedrich Max Müller

Also known as Rt. Hon. Friedrich Max Muller, Max Müller, F. Max Müller, Professor Friedrich Max-Muller, F. M. M.

German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)

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Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) was a linguist, librarian, translator, and university teacher. Born in Dessau, he held citizenship in Anhalt-Dessau and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was educated at Leipzig University and the Alte Nikolaischule, earning a Magister Artium. Müller served as a professor, fellow, and librarian at the University of Oxford, where he died. He spoke German, English, Ancient Greek, and Latin.

Müller was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. He received the Volney Prize and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. His published works include *Germany*, *The German classics from the fourth to the nineteenth century*, *Vorlesungen über den Ursprung und die Entwickelung der Religion*, and *Notes on books and proceedings in the educational department of Bengal*.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 6 December 1823
Died: 28 October 1900
Works: 502

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Germany
Active from: 1823
Active to: 1900

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Welcome to the Tidyverse
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Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x

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Quotes

“We all come from the East—all that we value most has come to us from the East, and in going to the East, not only those who have received a special Oriental training, but everybody who has enjoyed the advantages of a liberal, that is, of a truly historical education, ought to feel that he is going to his “old home”.”
“It is curious to see how the descendants of the same race, to which the first conquerors and masters of India belonged, return . . . to accomplish the glorious work of civilization, which had been left unfinished by their Arian bretheren.”
“The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years.”
“India must be conquered again, and that second conquest should be a conquest by education.”
“This . . . shows, better than anything else, how violent a shock was given by the discovery of Sanskrit to prejudices most deeply engrained in the mind of every educated man. The most absurd arguments found favor for a time, if they could only furnish a loophole by which to escape the unpleasant conclusion that Greek and Latin were of the same kith and kin as the language of the black inhabitants of India.”
“But it was more faithfully preserved by the Zoroastrians, who migrated from India to the North-west and whose religion has been preserved to us in the Zind Avesta, though in fragments only...”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Max
Family name: Müller
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Place of birth: Dessau
Place of death: Oxford
Father: Wilhelm Müller
Occupation: essayist
Position held: professor
Educated at: Alte Nikolaischule (Leipzig)
Employer: University of Oxford
Languages spoken: Sanskrit
Native language: German
Award: honorary member
Student of: Eugène Burnouf
Field of work: Indology
Image: Friedrich Max Müller by Bassano 1883.jpg
Work location: Oxford
Residence: Oxford

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date of birth: 1823-12-06
date of death: 1900-10-28
Commons category: Friedrich Max Müller
Commons Creator page: Friedrich Max Müller
member of: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
birth name: Friedrich Max Müller
name in native language: Max Müller
writing language: English language
contributed to creative work: Popular Science
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archives at: Bodleian Library
academic major: philosophy

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Friedrich Max Müller, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Friedrich Max Müller ( German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈmaks ˈmʏlɐ]; 6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a German-born British comparative philologist and Orientalist. He was one of the founders of the Western academic disciplines of Indology and religious studies. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology. He directed the preparation of the Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set of English translations which continued after his death.

Müller became a professor at Oxford University, first of modern languages, then of comparative philology in a position founded for him, and which he held for the rest of his life. Early in his career he held strong views on India, believing that it needed to be transformed by Christianity. Later, his view became more nuanced, championing ancient Sanskrit literature and India more generally. He became involved in several controversies during his career: he was accused of being anti-Christian; he disagreed with Darwinian evolution, favouring theistic evolution; he raised interest in Aryan culture, opposing the racial misuse of the term ‘Aryan,’ which later developed into the racist Aryan ideology of the 20th century; and he promoted the idea of a "Turanian" family of languages.

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