1860 Boden Professor of Sanskrit election
The election in 1860 for the position of Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford was a competition between two candidates offering different approaches to Sanskrit scholarship. One was Monier Williams, an Oxford-educated Englishman who had spent 14 years teaching Sanskrit to those preparing to work in British India for the East India Company. The other, Max Müller, was a German-born lecturer at Oxford specialising in comparative philology, the science of language. He had spent many years working on an edition of the Rig Veda (an ancient collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns), and had gained an international reputation for his scholarship. Williams, in contrast, worked on later material and had little time for the "continental" school of Sanskrit scholarship that Müller exempli
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1860 Boden Professor of Sanskrit election
The election in 1860 for the position of Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford was a competition between two candidates offering different approaches to Sanskrit scholarship. One was Monier Williams, an Oxford-educated Englishman who had spent 14 years teaching Sanskrit to those preparing to work in British India for the East India Company. The other, Max Müller, was a German-born lecturer at Oxford specialising in comparative philology, the science of language. He had spent many years working on an edition of the Rig Veda (an ancient collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns), and had gained an international reputation for his scholarship. Williams, in contrast, worked on later material and had little time for the "continental" school of Sanskrit scholarship that Müller exempli
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The election in 1860 for the p ...... sorship in the United Kingdom.
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كانت انتخابات عام 1860 لمنصب أ ...... ريتي متبقي في المملكة المتحدة.
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In a Convocation held in the S ...... fessor Müller 610Majority 223.
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My dear Williams, I am quite i ...... er affectionately,H. H. Wilson
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There are Two Candidates, with ...... of a Christian Foundation.M.A.
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Müller writes to his mother, 16 December
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The election in 1860 for the p ...... cholarship that Müller exempli
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كانت انتخابات عام 1860 لمنصب أ ...... كان عمله، أنه سيساعد المبشرين.
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1860 Boden Professor of Sanskrit election
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انتخابات أستاذ بودن للغة السنسكريتية 1860
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