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GB 891 OTF-OTF/2-OTF/2/3-OTF/2/3/1
Title
Letter from Max Müller to the J. Reynolds
Date(s)
- 1861 (Creation)
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1 letter handwritten, 2 sides
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(1823-1900)
Biographical history
Max Müller, was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, a founder in the western academic field of Indian studies. He was born in Dessau and was educated in Leipzig. In 1850, he was appointed deputy Taylorian professor of modern European languages at Oxford University and in 1868 was made Oxford's first Professor of Comparative Philology. "The Sacred Books of the East", a 50-volume set of English translations, was prepared under his direction. He also promoted the idea of a Turanian family of languages.
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Letter from Max Müller to J. Reynolds expressing his concern that the operations of the Translation Fund have been paralysed by lack of funding and stating his willingness to help in its re-establishment.
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- English