FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 10/23/1892 - HFSID 142558
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FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER
The German-born author and scholar of Indian language signs this
letter thanking a colleague for his writings
Autograph letter signed: "F. Max Muller" in black ink. 4x6.
Oxford, October 23, 1892, on personal letterhead. In full: "Dear Sir,
Many thanks for your 'Yellow man in India' and for your Sanskrit Nouns &
Verbs. I am too busy just now to examine your paper on Bengali, but I shall be
glad to recommend your little grammatical sketch to our Sanskrit students here.
Yours sincerely". Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900), generally known
as Max Müller, was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived
and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of
the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative
religion. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of
Indology and the Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set of English
translations, was prepared under his direction. He also put forward and
promoted the idea of a Turanian family of languages and Turanian people. Toned.
Corners rounded. Horizontal crease across center. Pencil note (unknown hand) in
upper left corner. Otherwise, fine condition.
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