Max Müller
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.
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Background
- Born in
- Dessau
- Educated at
- Leipzig UniversityAlte Nikolaischule (Leipzig)
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh🏆 Doctor honoris causa of the University of Dublin🏆 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi🏆 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art🏆 Volney Prize
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Trending topics shown first"I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language… in that sense, and in that sense only, do I s…"
"Still the child betrays the passions of the man, and there are hymns, though few in number, in the Veda, so full of thought and speculation that at this early period no poet in any other nation could …"
"India must be conquered again, and that second conquest should be a conquest by education."
"There will be and can be no rest till we admit, what cannot be denied, that there is in man a third faculty, which I call simply the faculty of apprehending the Infinite, not only in religion, but in …"
"The worship of Shiva, Vishnu, and other popular deities was of the same and in many cases of a more degraded and savage character than the worship of Jupiter, Apollo or Minerva. ... A religion may lin…"
"I wish to point out that there was another sphere of intellectual activity in which the Hindus excelled–the meditative and transcendent–and that here we might learn from them some lessons of life whic…"
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1823
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