* 1823 – Friedrich Max Müller, German orientalist ( d. 1900 )

Others such as Max Müller agreed that Khatti was probably Kheta, but proposed connecting it with Biblical Kittim, rather than with the " Children of Heth ".

Meanwhile, religious scholar Max Müller theorized that religion began in hedonism and folklorist Wilhelm Mannhardt suggested that religion began in " naturalism ", by which he meant mythological explanation of natural events.

The term was originally coined by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling ( 1775 – 1854 ) to depict early stages of monotheism, however Max Müller ( 1823 – 1900 ), a German philologist and orientalist, brought the term into common usage.

From this mix of monism, monotheism and naturalist polytheism Max Müller decided to name the early Vedic religion henotheistic.

Nineteenth-century comparative mythology reinterpreted myth as evolution toward science ( E. B. Tylor ), " disease of language " ( Max Müller ), or misinterpretation of magical ritual ( James Frazer ).

The 19th century Sanskritist Max Müller supported an allegorical theory of myth.

Max Müller called myth a " disease of language ".

According to the philologist Max Müller, the root of the English word " religion ", the Latin religio, was originally used to mean only " reverence for God or the gods, careful pondering of divine things, piety " ( which Cicero further derived to mean " diligence ").

Max Müller characterized many other cultures around the world, including Egypt, Persia, and India, as having a similar power structure at this point in history.

Three theories exercised great influence on nineteenth and early twentieth century mythography, beside the Tree worship of Mannhardt and the Totemism of J. F. McLennan, the " Sun myth " of Alvin Boyd Kuhn and Max Müller.

R. F. Littledale criticized the Sun myth theory when he illustrated that Max Müller on his own principles was himself only a Solar myth, whilst Alfred Lyall delivered a still stronger attack on the same theory and its assumption that tribal gods and heroes, such as those of Homer, were mere reflections of the Sun myth by proving that the gods of certain Rajput clans were really warriors who founded the clans not many centuries ago, and were the ancestors of the present chieftains.

The identification of the Vedic Sarasvati River with the Ghaggar-Hakra River was accepted by Christian Lassen, Max Müller, Marc Aurel Stein, C. F.

** Max Ritter von Müller, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1887 )

* October 28 – Max Müller, German philologist and Orientalist ( b. 1823 )

** Max Ritter von Müller, German World War I fighter ace ( d. 1918 )

* December 6 – Friedrich Max Müller, German Orientalist ( d. 1900 )

During his second visit to England in May 1896, Vivekananda met Max Müller, a renowned Indologist from Oxford University who wrote Ramakrishna's first biography in the West.

Abroad, Vivekananda had interactions with Max Müller.

To give one example, in 1875, the Delegates approved the series Sacred Books of the East under the editorship of Friedrich Max Müller, bringing a vast range of religious thought to a wider readership.

When OUP arrived on Indian shores, it was preceded by the immense prestige of the Sacred Books of the East, edited by Friedrich Max Müller, which had at last reached completion in 50 ponderous volumes.

Although there had been plenty of criticism of them, the general feeling was that Max Müller had done India a favour by popularising ancient Asian ( Persian, Arabic, Indian and Sinic ) philosophy in the West.

During the 19th and 20th centuries, Western intellectuals such as Schopenhauer, Henry David Thoreau, Max Müller and esoteric societies such as the Theosophical Society of H. P.

In the 19th century Max Müller and other scholars identified Ophir with Abhira, at the mouth of the Indus River in modern-day Pakistan.

Max Müller classified the Turanian language family into different sub-branches.

In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.

Christopher Hitchens, in his autobiography, describes a dinner with Christie and her husband, Max Mallowan, that became increasingly uncomfortable as the night wore on, where " The anti-Jewish flavour of the talk was not to be ignored or overlooked, or put down to heavy humour or generational prejudice.

Max Born suggested that the electron's position needed to be described by a probability distribution which was connected with finding the electron at some point in the wave-function which described its associated wave packet.

For nearly twenty years he battled an amphetamine addiction ; during the 1960s he was a patient of the notorious Max Jacobson, known as " Dr. Feelgood ", who administered injections of " vitamins with enzymes " that were in fact laced with amphetamines.

In 1796 the Duke of Zweibrücken, Maximilian Joseph, the future Bavarian king Max I. Joseph, was exiled to Ansbach after Zweibrücken had been taken by the French.

Many artists, including Martin Schongauer, Hieronymus Bosch, Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dalí, have depicted these incidents from the life of Anthony ; in prose, the tale was retold and embellished by Gustave Flaubert in The Temptation of Saint Anthony.

Another memorable ruler was Max Franz ( ruled 1784-1794 ), who founded the university and the spa quarter of Bad Godesberg.

I am above race ..." The first English translation of Doctor Zhivago was hastily produced by Max Hayward and Manya Harari in order to coincide with overwhelming public demand.

He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent film comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films.

The structure of crystalline solids was studied by Max von Laue and Paul Knipping, when they observed the x-ray diffraction pattern of crystals, and concluded that crystals get their structure from periodic lattices of atoms.

In his native France and throughout the world, Max Linder was a major comic feature and might qualify as the first true film star.

Max and Moritz was a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children's stories such as Struwwelpeter (" Shockheaded Peter "); in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill and consumed by a flock of geese.

For the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Tina Turner is said to have been wearing an actual mail and she complained how heavy this was.

The series was very successful, spawning followups The Bionic Woman ( Jaime Sommers ), and Max, the bionic dog.

Critical theory was established as a school of thought by five Frankfurt School theoreticians: Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, and Jürgen Habermas.

Critical theory was first defined by Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School of sociology in his 1937 essay Traditional and Critical Theory: Critical theory is a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory oriented only to understanding or explaining it.

She was the sister of the socialist activist Max Eastman, with whom she was quite close throughout her life.

The original Max Brand novel was translated into an " oater " with the town of Bottleneck set on a Hollywood sound stage.

Dilbert was named the best syndicated strip of 1997 in the Harvey Awards and won the Max & Moritz Prize as best international comic strip for 1998.

But Sheedy was unable to pay his bills and in 1949 turned his masters over to his record stamping company, the Circle Record Company, owned by Max and Sol Weiss.

For example, during the 1980s, character ' Ron Headrest ' served as a doppelgänger for Ronald Reagan and was depicted as a computer-generated artificial-intelligence, an image based on the television character Max Headroom.

Philosopher Max Stirner, in his book The Ego and Its Own, was the first philosopher to call himself an egoist, though his writing makes clear that he desired not a new idea of morality ( ethical egoism ), but rather a rejection of morality ( amoralism ), as a nonexistent and limiting “ spook ”; for this, Stirner has been described as the first individualist anarchist.

The sociologist Max Weber was born in Erfurt, and the theologian and philosopher Meister Eckhart was Prior of Erfurt's Dominican Order.