Friedrich Max Müller and the Sacred Books of the East. By Arie L. Molendijk
Friedrich Max Müller was once recognized as a great luminary of the nineteenth-century scholarly world, but within a short period after his death in 1900 his reputation had faded, and in subsequent decades he was little remembered. In recent years, however, there has been renewed interest in Müller...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 965-968 |
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| Summary: | Friedrich Max Müller was once recognized as a great luminary of the nineteenth-century scholarly world, but within a short period after his death in 1900 his reputation had faded, and in subsequent decades he was little remembered. In recent years, however, there has been renewed interest in Müller and his scholarship. One of the strongest pillars of Müller’s reputation was the fifty-volume series, The Sacred Books of the East, a massive project initiated by him and completed between 1879 and 1910. The series, published by the Clarendon Press, included translations of sacred texts of Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Islam, and Hinduism. Müller personally selected and recruited the translators, acted as general editor for the series, provided a general preface for the series, and translated a number of the texts himself. The series was one of the supreme achievements of Victorian scholarship and is widely recognized as a landmark in the study of religions. Arie L. Molendijk offers a focused account of this monumental project. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa122 |