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Also Known As Friedrich Max Müller
Born December 6, 1823 • Dessau • Germany
Died October 28, 1900 (aged 76) • Oxford • England
Notable Works “The Sacred Books of the East”
Subjects Of Study Asia • comparative linguistics • comparative religion • religion

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Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Adalbert Kuhn
German scholar
Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
William Robertson Smith
William Robertson Smith
Scottish scholar
A.-H. Anquetil-Duperron
French scholar and linguist
William Dwight Whitney
American linguist
Francis Andrew March
American scholar and lexicographer
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Carl Meinhof
German linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Diedrich Westermann
German scholar
August Fick
German linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Joachim Wach
German-American theologian
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist