Max Mueller
<p><b >Friedrich Max Müller</b> (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900), generally known as <b >Max Müller</b>, was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Confederation" title="German Confederation" >German</a>-born <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philologist" title="Philologist" class="mw-redirect" >philologist</a> and<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_studies" title="Oriental studies" >Orientalist</a>, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic field of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indology" title="Indology" >Indian studies</a> and the discipline of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_religion" title="Comparative religion" >comparative religion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gifford_bio_1-0" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller#cite_note-gifford_bio-1" >[1]</a></sup> Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indology" title="Indology" >Indology</a>. The<i ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Books_of_the_East" title="Sacred Books of the East" >Sacred Books of the East</a></i>, a 50-volume set of English translations, was prepared under his direction. He also promoted the idea of a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turanism" title="Turanism" >Turanian</a> family of languages and Turanian people.
 
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