Born in Germany and trained in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, Friedrich Max Muller (1823 1900) settled at Oxford, where he would become the university's first professor of comparative philology. Best known for his work on the Rig Veda, he brought the comparative study of language, mythology and religion to a wider audience in Victorian Britain. His lectures at the Royal Institution, published in two volumes between 1861 and 1864, were reprinted fifteen times before the end of the century. Volume 1 contains the nine 1861 lectures, in which Max Muller aligns the science of language with the...
Born in Germany and trained in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, Friedrich Max Muller (1823 1900) settled at Oxford, where he would become the university's f...
Born in Germany and trained in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, Friedrich Max Muller (1823 1900) settled at Oxford, where he would become the university's first professor of comparative philology. Best known for his work on the Rig Veda, he brought the comparative study of language, mythology and religion to a wider audience in Victorian Britain. His lectures at the Royal Institution, published in two volumes between 1861 and 1864, were reprinted fifteen times before the end of the century. Volume 2 contains the twelve 1863 lectures, in which Max Muller argues for the inseparability of the science...
Born in Germany and trained in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, Friedrich Max Muller (1823 1900) settled at Oxford, where he would become the university's f...
