Resultado de búsqueda
Publisher's summary. Max Muller is often referred to as the "father of religious studies", having himself coined the term "science of religion" (or religionswissenschaft) in 1873. It was he who encouraged the comparative study of myth and ritual, and it was he who introduced the oft quoted dictum: "He who knows one (religion), knows none".
Friedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a British philologist and Orientalist of German origin. He was one of the founders of the Western academic disciplines of Indian studies and religious studies. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology. The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set ...
16 de dic. de 1973 · MAX MÜLLER : THE PHILOSOPHER LINGUIST C. G. Kashikar Professor Max Müller, German by birth and education, English by academic achievements and, I may add, Indian by mind, very well deserves to be respectfully remembered in the whole world wherever knowledge is honoured, particularly in Germany, Great Britain, and India.
Hace 6 días · Quick Reference. (1823–1900), comparative philologist and religious writer. A German by birth, he went to Oxford in 1848 to supervise the printing of the first edition of the Rig-Veda. He soon held senior office in the university. In 1875 he undertook the editing of The Sacred Books of the East, a series of translations of E. religious ...
Sacred Books of the East. The Sacred Books of the East is a monumental 50-volume set of English translations of Asian religious texts, edited by Max Müller and published by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It incorporates the essential sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam .
In Cambridge, the German Indologist Max Müller gave lectures on the spiritual wealth of India to the future English officials and employees of the East India Company. He did not want to convey an idealized picture of India. He wanted only what he could pick from the sources and study of literature.
19 de oct. de 2016 · 13 For Müller’s views on Semitic religion, see his ‘Semitic Monotheism’ (1860), in his Chips from a German Workshop, vol. 1, Essays on the Science of Religion (New York: Scribner, 1869), pp. 337–74; also reprinted in Stone, The Essential Max Müller, pp. 25–42.
