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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: William Jones, Duncan Forbes, Edwin Arnold, Thomas William Rhys Davids, Max Muller, Richard Gombrich, James Atkinson, Sir John Woodroffe, Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids, Edward Conze, Edward Balfour, James Prinsep, John Borthwick Gilchrist, William Wilson Hunter, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Monier Monier-Williams, Ernest Binfield Havell, Simon Digby, Arthur Llewellyn Basham, Charles Wilkins, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Isaline Blew Horner, David McCutchion, Alexis Sanderson, George Abraham Grierson, Horace Hayman Wilson, John Muir, Roper Lethbridge, Mary Frere, Vincent Arthur Smith, Henry Beveridge, Paul Dundas, A. Berriedale Keith, Robert Caesar Childers, Edward Byles Cowell, Stanley Lane-Poole, Sara Grant, Arthur Anthony Macdonell, Donald Friell McLeod, Michael D. Willis, Edward Moor, Ralph T. H. Griffith, A M T Jackson, Thomas Burrow, James R. Ballantyne, Edgar Thurston, K. R. Norman, M. A. Sherring, Julius Eggeling, Giles Tillotson, Edward William West. Excerpt: Friedrich Max Muller (December 6, 1823 - October 28, 1900), more regularly known as Max Muller, was a German philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion. Muller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology, a discipline he introduced to the British reading public, and the Sacred Books of the East, a massive, 50-volume set of English translations prepared under his direction, stands as an enduring monument to Victorian scholarship. He was born in Dessau, the son of the Romantic poet Wilhelm Muller, whose verse Franz Schubert had set to music in his song-cycles Die schone Mullerin and Winterreise. Max Muller's mother, Adelheide Muller, was the eldest daughter of a chief minister of Anhalt-Dessau. Muller knew Felix Mendelssohn and had Carl Mari...
