# Max Müller

> He gave the English-speaking world its first systematic access to the sacred texts of the East, editing all fifty volumes of a translation series that opened Hindu, Buddhist, and Zoroastrian scripture to modern scholarship. A philologist who built bridges and started fires.

*German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823-1900)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1823-12-06
- **Died:** 1900-10-28
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Friedrich Max Müller was born in Germany on 6 December 1823 and became a British comparative philologist and Orientalist who founded the Western academic study of Indology and religious studies. Early in his career at Oxford - where he became professor first of modern languages, then of comparative philology in a chair created for him - he believed India needed Christian transformation, but his view grew more nuanced as he championed ancient Sanskrit literature. He directed the Sacred Books of the East, a fifty-volume English translation project that outlasted him, and spent decades embroiled in controversy: accused of being anti-Christian, opposed to Darwinian evolution in favour of theistic versions, and a promoter of Aryan culture who explicitly rejected its racial misuse even as the term later twisted into 20th-century ideology. He was made a member of the UK Privy Council, awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, and died 28 October 1900.

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