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THE STRAND MAGAZINE.

PROFESSOR MAX-MÜLLER.

Born 1823.

Age 4.
From a Drawing.
Age 20.
From a Drawing.


P ROFESSOR FREDERICH MAX-MÜLLER, one of the most eminent scholars and teachers of languages alive, is the son of the celebrated German poet, Wilhelm Müller, and was born and educated at Dessau. At twenty-three he came to England and took up his residence at Oxford, where he was appointed a Professor of Languages. His books, among the most popular of which is "Chips From a German Workshop," are written with a charm of style which few Englishmen could equal, and his influence, not only in England but abroad, especially India, has greatly helped the study of Oriental languages, and thrown much fresh light upon the origin of the religions and superstitions of mankind. Our last portrait shows him as a Member of the Institute of France (of which he is one of the eight foreign members) and wearing the insignia of the Ordre pour le Mérite. He is also one of the ten foreign members of the Reale Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, and has received the Order of the Northern Star of Sweden.

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