Max Müller
![Müller in 1883, by [[Alexander Bassano]]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Friedrich_Max_M%C3%BCller_by_Bassano_1883.jpg)
Müller became a professor at Oxford University, first of modern languages, then of comparative philology in a position founded for him, and which he held for the rest of his life. Early in his career he held strong views on India, believing that it needed to be transformed by Christianity. Later, his view became more nuanced, championing ancient Sanskrit literature and India more generally. He became involved in several controversies during his career: he was accused of being anti-Christian; he disagreed with Darwinian evolution, favouring theistic evolution; he raised interest in Aryan culture, deeply disliking the resulting racism; and he promoted the idea of a "Turanian" family of languages.
Among his honours and distinctions, he was made an ''associé étranger'' of the French ''Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres''; he was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art; and he was made a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. Provided by Wikipedia
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3by Benedikt Hartmann, Max Müller, Lisa Seyler, Tobias Bäuerle, Tobias Wilferth, Nikolai Avdievitch, Loreen Ruhm, Anke Henning, Alexei Lesiv, Pavel Ivashkin, Michael Uder, Armin M NagelGet full text
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