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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.