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GB 891 OTF-OTF/2-OTF/2/3
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- 1861 - 1889 (Creation)
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1 file 3 letters
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(1823-1900)
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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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Correspondence from Max Müller and J. Bühler concerning the Oriental Translation Fund.
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- English
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- Bühler Georg 1837-1898 (Subject)