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Friedrich Max Müller 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. He was…
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Born 6 December 1823 · Died 28 October 1900 · Q60074
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If I live for one purpose it is for this, that I will preach the union of Eastern and Western philosophy, the reconciliation of Europe and Asia. The idea may seem absurd to many in the present age. It may provoke ridicule and angry reviling. But posterity will prove a better judge.
“If I live for one purpose it is for this, that I will preach the union of Eastern and Western philosophy, the reconciliation of Europe and Asia. The idea may seem absurd to many in the present age. It may provoke ridicule and angry reviling. But posterity will prove a better judge.”
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Died 1900-10-28.
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And he died at his home in Oxford on 28 October 1900
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Müller was appointed a member of the Privy Council
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Müller and his wife traveled to the Ottoman Empire, visiting Istanbul and Bursa
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At a meeting of the Established Presbytery of Glasgow, Mr
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Müller was appointed Gifford Lecturer at the University of Glasgow
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“India: What Can It Teach Us?”
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Published a translation of the first edition of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
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Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1878).
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“If history is to teach us anything, it must teach us that there is a continuity which binds together the present and the past, the East and the West. And no branch of history teaches that lesson more powerfully than the history of language and the history of religion.”
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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1875).
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Müller was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1874).
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Sent a copy of his lectures to Darwin reassuring him that, though he differed from some of Darwin's conclusions, he was one of his "diligent readers and sincere admirers"
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Müller gave a short course of three lectures for the British Institution on language as the barrier between man and beast, which he called "On Darwin's Philosophy of Language"
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Müller was elected to the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres as a foreign correspondent (associé étranger)
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Wrote to George Campbell, the newly appointed Secretary of State for India:
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Müller became Oxford's first professor of comparative philology, a position founded on his behalf
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Career landmark: professor (1868).
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Career landmark: librarian (1865–1866).
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Awarded Volney Prize (1862).
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Career landmark: fellow (1858).
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Was elected to a life fellowship at All Souls' College
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Müller became a naturalised British citizen in 1855, at the age of 32.
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Müller was appointed deputy Taylorian professor of modern European languages at Oxford University
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Career landmark: professor (1850).
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Awarded Volney Prize (1849).
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To study Sanskrit texts in the collection of the East India Company
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Müller moved to Paris to study Sanskrit under Eugène Burnouf
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Müller studied in Berlin with Friedrich Schelling
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Studied at Leipzig University (1843).
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To study philology, leaving behind his early interest in music and poetry
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Studied at Alte Nikolaischule (Leipzig) (1835–1841).
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At the age of twelve, he was sent to live in the house of the painter Carl Gustav Carus and attended the Nikolaischule at Leipzig, where he continued his studies of music and classics
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Born 1823-12-06.
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