Max Müller
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They also nod to a recent theory about the origin of language in animal sounds that Carroll's friend, the philologist Max Müller, scorned as 'the bow-wow theory':
From Nature • Nov. 15, 2016
The second part depicts the return to Earth from being eaten by Max Müller on the day Edward VII dedicated the Great Sewer of London.”
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2015
Max Müller: “Lectures on the Science of Language,” and “Lectures on the Science of Religion;” Michel Bréal, “Mélanges de Mythologie et de Linguistique.”
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
According to Max Müller, the Veda was referred to in India fifteen hundred years before Christ.
From The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism by Foote, G. W. (George William)
Max Müller in his translation in prose has adhered in many cases to the original metre, and the reader feels he is reading prose.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert
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