Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Friedrich Max-Müller NPG Ax7527

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Hills & Saunders

Max-Müller was a Fellow of All Souls, an orientalist and philologist. Born in Germany, his early interest was in music - he knew Mendelssohn and his godfather was Weber - but at Leipzig University he studied Sanskrit (the classical language of ancient India), in which field his work is still known. He came to England in 1846, became a member of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1851 and Professor of Modern Languages in 1854. Defeated in the 1860 election for the Chair of Sanskrit, he later... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.