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
The names of rivers form a striking commentary on the history of language, so admirably expounded to the general reader in the recent work of Professor Max Müller.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
Max Müller, in his lectures on the Science of Religion, rejects the ordinary division into natural and revealed, and adopts a threefold grouping, corresponding to the great division of languages into Turanian, Aryan, and Semitic.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William
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)
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