Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 600 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139600569
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Linguistics
Content:
Born in Germany and trained in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) settled at Oxford, where he would become the university's first professor of comparative philology. Best known for his work on the Rig Veda, he brought the comparative study of language, mythology and religion to a wider audience in Victorian Britain. His lectures at the Royal Institution, published in two volumes between 1861 and 1864, were reprinted fifteen times before the end of the century. Volume 2 contains the twelve 1863 lectures, in which Max Müller argues for the inseparability of the science of language from the science of the mind. He explores 'the body or the outside of language, the sounds in which language is clothed' as well as 'the soul or the inside' and its relation to mythology. Hugely successful at the time - George Eliot was particularly enthused - the lectures remain instructive reading in the history of linguistics
Note:
Includes index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108063050
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108063050
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139600569
