OBITUARY.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 104, 30 October 1900, Page 5

OBITUARY.

* PROFESSOR MAX MULLER. [press association.] (Received October 30, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, 29th October. Professor Max Muller is dead, at the age of 76. [The late Professor, who was universally recognised as a high authority on. Sanskrit literature and comparative philology.,, was. born afe. J)es§a.u,, ifk (iermny.,. and attended the, XJajversities- of Leipzig and Berlin. He early devoted himself to a study of Oriental languages and literature and published several works in. Germany dealing with this subject. la 1846 ho visited England, and in 1848 he settled at Oxfox'd, where he has since, resided. He toek the degree, of M.A. at that University, was made a Curator of the Bsdleian Library in 1856, and elected a Fellow of All S&uls in 1858. In 1868 a Professorship of Comparative Philology was founded, and Max Muller was nominated to the chair. The late Professor was a frequent contributor to the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, The Times, and various literary journals in England, America, Germany, and France, and in the course of his long and industrious life he has published many works, of which perhaps the best known are "Chips from a German Workshop," a collection of essays on iiterature, biography, mythplogy, etc., and his translation of the Rig- Veda, the sacred hymns of tha Brahmins. The first of a -series of articles by Max Muller on "The Religions of China" appeared in the Nineteenth Century for September. Many honours, including aft English Pr^vy Councijll'ership, were conferred on the, tyt© Professor by the learned bodies and rulers of Europe.] SYDNEY, 29th October. The wife of the Rev. James Chalmers, the well-known missionary, has died in New Guinea.