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Friedrich Max Müller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 6 December 1823
- Died
- 28 October 1900
- Place of birth
- Dessau
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Müller
- Father
- Wilhelm Müller
- Mother
- Adelheid Müller
- Field of work
- philology, oriental studies, religious studies, Indology
- Occupation
- linguist, librarian, historian of religion, translator, university teacher, mythographer, writer, philologist, religious studies scholar, orientalist, Indo-Europeanist, Indologist
- Position held
- Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, professor, fellow, librarian, professor
- Native language
- German
- Awards
- Volney Prize, Volney Prize, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, Doctor honoris causa of the University of Dublin, honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh, honorary member
- academic degree
- Magister Artium, Dr. phil.
- academic major
- classical philology, philosophy
- archives at
- Bodleian Library
- birth name
- Friedrich Max Müller
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- depicted by
- Friedrich Max-Müller
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of National Biography, first supplement, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, The Times, Library of the World's Best Literature, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Encyclopedia Americana, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- educated at
- Leipzig University, Alte Nikolaischule (Leipzig)
- employer
- University of Oxford
- honorific prefix
- The Right Honourable, Q113950358
- member of
- Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Leipzig Fraternity Germania, Academy of Sciences of Turin, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Romanian Academy, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- Max Müller
- professorship
- Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology
- student of
- Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann, Friedrich Rückert, Moriz Haupt, Reinhold Klotz, Johann Gottfried Stallbaum, Karl Friedrich August Nobbe, Christian Hermann Weisse, Christian Wilhelm Niedner, Hermann Lotze, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Eugène Burnouf
- topic's main category
- Category:Friedrich Max Müller
- work location
- Oxford
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