Max Müller

Student with Schelling, then Franz Bopp. Then in Paris with Eugène Burnouf. Then London for the East India Company archive, & Christ Church Oxford, comparative philology. Later Professor of Modern European Languages, Comparative Theology Chair eventually, All Souls. Comparative religion.
Indology, Orientalism, philology.
Liens avec Brahmo Samaj. Reformism, in line of Rammohan Roy.
Crisis of faith context: both with German religious history & Darwinian turn.
Out of Romanticism. The culturalism of it.
Aryan / Semitic pair. 

Critical edition of the Rig Veda.
Mythology as "a disease of language" - ?? "that myth transforms concepts into beings and stories" (wiki).

Repères bibliographiques wiki : his work / 3 titles on him.