A Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners

by F. Max Müller, Arthur Anthony MacDonell

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204 pages, Paperback

Published August 19, 2017

About the author

Friedrich Max Müller, K.M. (Ph.D., Philology, Leipzig University, 1843)—generally known as Max Müller or F. Max Müller—was the first Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford University, and an Orientalist who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology and the Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set of English translations, was prepared under his direction.

Müller became a naturalized British citizen in 1855. In 1869, he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres as a foreign correspondent. He was awarded the Pour le Mérite (civil class) in 1874, and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art the following year. In 1888, he was appointed Gifford Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, delivering the first in what has proved to be an ongoing, annual series of lectures at several Scottish universities to the present day. He was appointed a member of the Privy Council in 1896.

His wife, Georgina Adelaide Müller was also an author. After Max's death, she deposited his papers at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Reviews

[ꦧꦺꦴꦝ꧀ꦱꦸꦂꦪ · Rating 3 out of 5]

As far as quality of the lessons, this is a five star book. Sadly it reads less like a book titled "Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners" and more like "Sanskrit Grammar for People who Speak Sanskrit." The book is often difficult to understand and if you really want to learn Sanskrit grammar there is probably better books. This book's great use is actually as a record and reference to a student of Sanskrit since it has almost all the grammar would need.