James Legge
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James Legge was a Scottish linguist, missionary, sinologist, and translator who was best known as an early translator of Classical Chinese texts into English. Legge served as a representative of the L
Missionary to China
Legge and his three Chinese assistants
Page 121 from first edition of James Legge's translation of Confucius Analects
Max Müller
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Friedrich Max Müller was a German-born British comparative philologist and Orientalist. He was one of the founders of the Western academic disciplines of Indology and religious studies. Müller wrote b
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…Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong (1840–1873) and was the first Professor of Chinese at Oxford University (1876–1897). In association with Max Müller he prepared the monumental Sacred Books of the East series, published in 50 volumes between 1879 and 1891. James Legge was born at Huntly, Aberdeenshire…
Müller in 1883, by Alexander Bassano
Portrait of the elderly Max Muller by George Frederic Watts, 1894–1895
1875 Vanity Fair caricature of Müller confirming that, at the age of fifty-one, with numerous honours, he was one of the truly notable "Men of the Day".
In uniform, 1890s