Значение слова MAX в Литературной энциклопедии

MAX

MUeLLER FRIEDRICH (1823-1900).-Philologist, _s._ of the German poet, Wilhelm M., was _b._ at Dessau, and _ed._ at Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris. In 1846 he was requested by the East India Company to ed. the _Rig Veda_. He settled at Oxf. in 1848, and in 1850 was appointed deputy Taylorian Prof. of Modern European languages, becoming Prof. 4 years later, and Curator of the Bodleian Library in 1856. In 1868 he was elected first Prof. of Comparative Philology. He ed. _Sacred Books of the East_, and wrote in English _Chips from a German Workshop_ (1867-75). He did much to stimulate the study of comparative religion and philology. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1896.

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