Lectures on the Science of Language: Volume 1 Müller Paperback 9781108063043

Lectures on the Science of Language: Volume 1Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1861\nAuthor(s): F. Max Mller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108063043, 978-1108063043\nSynopsis\nBorn in Germany and trained in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, Friedrich Max Mller [tel] settled at Oxford, where he would become the university's first professor of comparative philology. Best known for his work on the Rig Veda, he brought the comparative study of language, mythology and religion to a wider audience in Victorian Britain. His lectures at the Royal Institution, published in two volumes between 1861 and 1864, were reprinted fifteen times before the end of the century. Volume 1 contains the nine 1861 lectures, in which Max Mller aligns the science of language with the physical sciences, breaking his subject down into the three stages that he argues mark the history of any branch of human .