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Max Müller

1823 - 1900

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Friedrich Max Müller (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈmaks ˈmʏlɐ]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Müller has received more than 1,178,177 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Müller is the 3rd most popular linguist, the 157th most popular biography from Germany (down from 140th 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 161. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky. After him are William James Sidis, Roman Jakobson, Mahmud al-Kashgari, Mesrop Mashtots, Patanjali, Pāṇini, Franz Bopp, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Edward Sapir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Max Müller ranks 4. Before him are Abdulmejid I, Phineas Gage, and Alfred Russel Wallace. After him are Ernest Renan, Alexandre Cabanel, Gyula Andrássy, Leopold Kronecker, Sándor Petőfi, Édouard Lalo, 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, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, John Ruskin, Vladimir Solovyov, Étienne Lenoir, and Wilhelm Liebknecht.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Müller ranks 157 out of 6,142. Before him are Alois Alzheimer (1864), Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Friedrich Ebert (1871), Pope Joan (null), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), and Georg Simmel (1858). After him are Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795), Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Hans Frank (1900), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (973), and Christian IX of Denmark (1818).

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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), Johann Martin Schleyer (1831), Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775), Johann Christoph Adelung (1732), Michel Bréal (1832), Jost Gippert (1956), Friedrich August Wolf (1759), Vasily Radlov (1837), Hermann Paul (1846), and Karl Lachmann (1793).

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