Max Müller

[maks muhl-er, mahks my-luhr]

noun

1. Friedrich Müller, Max.

Max Müller

/ maks ˈmylər /

noun

1. See Müller

Example Sentences

Back in the 1870s, Oxford professor Friedrich Max Müller argued that "there is between the whole animal kingdom on the one side, and man, even in his lowest state, on the other, a barrier which no animal has ever crossed, and that barrier is —language."

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She gives the example of the German philologist Friedrich Max Müller, whom she depicts as so caught up in his own pristine theories that he paid no attention to the actual conditions under which his evidence was collected: “The professor erased the mosquitoes, and the sleepless nights, and the violence of an army coming over a hill.”

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Waltz down cobblestone Hauptstraße to Weingut Max Müller, an award-winning winery and cellar built in 1692 to serve the bishops, whose monastery occupied the top floor.

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Weingut Max Müller welcomes a new generation of winemakers.

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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':

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