Memories

Friedrich Max Müller, the German-born scholar of language and the East, looks back on his own life in this memoir, which the source presents under the heading of a story of German love. He spent most of his years in Britain, where he built a career as a philologist and Orientalist. Writing about the people who influenced him most, he traces how those relationships shaped his character and work. The result is a window onto the mind of a man whose drive and enthusiasms carried him through a remarkable career. Müller is also remembered as one of the early pioneers of Indian studies and the scientific study of religion.