MULLER. Frederick Max - Muller, Member of the Institute of France, Knight of the Ordre pony le Mdrite, Member of the Peale Accademia del Lined of Rome, and LL.D. of Cambridge and Edinburgh, is a learned German who settled in England. Ho was born on the Gth December 1823 at Dessau, the capital of the small Duchy of Anhalt Dessau. His father was Wilhelm Miller, a celebrated poet of Germany. In 1843 he took the degree of Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig, after which, in 1845, he went to Paris, and in 1813 to England. Ile undertook to superintend the printing of the Rig Veda at the charge of the E. 1. Company, at Oxford, where ho held the Chairs of Taylorian Professor of Euro pean Languages (1850 and 1854), Comparative Philology (1868). In 1844 he translated the Ilitopadesa into German, and printed it at Leipzig, which ho translated and republished in London. In 18-17 he translated Kalidasa's poem, the Megha-duta, from the German into English. In 1847 he read an essay on the Relations of the Bengali to the Aryan and Aboriginal Languages of India. In 1853 he wrote to Chevalier Bunsen a letter on the Classification of the Turanian Lan guages. In 1854 he submitted proposals for a missionary alphabet; in 1859 the History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature ; in 1861, 1864, and 1873, Lectures on the Science of Language, which up to 1878 had gone through nine editions, and have been translated into French, German, Italian, and Russian ; and his Science of Religion, False Analogies in Comparative Philology, and the Philosophy of Mythology, have also been trans lated into the principal Continental languages.
His Chips from a German Workshop, and Sayana charya's Commentary on the Rig Veda, Lectures on Missions, have also been translated ; and he undertook to edit The Sacred Books of the East, of which, up to the end of 1884, 24 volumes have appeared. In 1873 he delivered, in Westminster Abbey, a lecture on the Religions of the World ; in 1878, in the Chapter House of Westminster, he gave a course of lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion, as illustrated by the Religions of India ; in 1882 he lectured on India, at Cambridge College. In 1880 and 1881, with the help of Sanskrit manuscripts from Japan, he published the Sanskrit text of several Buddhist texts ; his principal essays have been collected in his four volumes of Chips from a German Workshop and two volumes of Selected Essays. His published works have been numerous beyond those of any writer of his time, and have chiefly relation to the races and literature of India and Southern and Eastern Asia.—The Leisure Hour, July 1878.