LINGUIST

Max Müller

1823 - 1900

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Friedrich Max Müller (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈmaks ˈmʏlɐ]; 6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a German-born British comparative philologist and Orientalist. He was one of the founders of the Western academic disciplines of Indology and religious studies. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Müller has received more than 1,258,112 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Müller is the 3rd most popular linguist, the 140th most popular biography from Germany (up from 157th in 2019) and the most popular German Linguist.

Max Müller was a German philologist and orientalist who is most famous for his contributions to the field of comparative linguistics.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Max Müller ranks 3 out of 214. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure, and Noam Chomsky. After him are Mahmud al-Kashgari, Antoine Meillet, William James Sidis, Roman Jakobson, Noah Webster, Edgar de Wahl, Mesrop Mashtots, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Franz Bopp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Max Müller ranks 3. Before him are Abdulmejid I, and Phineas Gage. After him are Alfred Russel Wallace, Gyula Andrássy, Ernest Renan, Sándor Petőfi, Leopold Kronecker, Édouard Lalo, Alexandre Cabanel, Jean-Henri Fabre, and Li Hongzhang. Among people deceased in 1900, Max Müller ranks 4. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, and Gottlieb Daimler. After him are Wilhelm Steinitz, Umberto I of Italy, Ivan Aivazovsky, Robert Luther, John Ruskin, Vladimir Solovyov, Étienne Lenoir, and Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Müller ranks 140 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), Baron Munchausen (1720), Max von Laue (1879), Christian IX of Denmark (1818), Meister Eckhart (1260), and Otto Hahn (1879). After him are Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Frederick William III of Prussia (1770), Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), and Ernst Röhm (1887).

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Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Max Müller ranks 1. After him are Franz Bopp (1791), August Schleicher (1821), Jost Gippert (1956), Johann Martin Schleyer (1831), Johann Christoph Adelung (1732), Michel Bréal (1832), Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775), Vasily Radlov (1837), Friedrich August Wolf (1759), August Leskien (1840), and Karl Lachmann (1793).

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