where was he born?
He was a German-born.
Max Müller
Friedrich Max Müller (; 6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life.
what does the term "1860 boden professor of sanskrit election" refer to? A competition between two candidates offering different approaches to Sanskrit scholarship. who were the candidates? Monier Williams, Max Müller who was the latter? He was a German-born lecturer at Oxford specialising in comparative philology, the science of language.
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Max Müller [SEP] Introduction
Friedrich Max Müller (; 6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic disciplines of Indian studies and religious studies ('science of religion', German: "Religionswissenschaft"). Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology. The "Sacred Books of the East", a 50-volume set of English translations, was prepared under his direction. He also promoted the idea of a Turanian family of languages.