M Winternitz

M. WINTERNITZ (1863-1937) was born in Austria and became interested in Indology after working with F. Max Müller at Oxford University. An authority on Sanskrit, he held numerous positions at the university level. F. MAX MÜLLER (1823-1900) was a German author and orientalist who lived in England most of his life. As a professor at Oxford, he combined the studies of language, culture, and religion to create the discipline of comparative mythology. His body of work included The Sacred Books of the...See more

M. WINTERNITZ (1863-1937) was born in Austria and became interested in Indology after working with F. Max Müller at Oxford University. An authority on Sanskrit, he held numerous positions at the university level. F. MAX MÜLLER (1823-1900) was a German author and orientalist who lived in England most of his life. As a professor at Oxford, he combined the studies of language, culture, and religion to create the discipline of comparative mythology. His body of work included The Sacred Books of the East, which he had edited. See less