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Mittwoch, 18. August 2010

Friedrich Max Müller

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Max_Müller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Max_Müller

Müllers Korrespondenz mit Ralph Waldo Emerson wird mit keinem Wort erwähnt...

Aus dem englischen Artikel:
Müller's work contributed to the developing interest in Aryan culture which set Indo-European ('Aryan') traditions in opposition to Semitic religions. He was deeply saddened by the fact that these later came to be expressed in racist terms. This was far from Müller's own intention. For Müller the discovery of common Indian and European ancestry was a powerful argument against racism, arguing that "an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar" and that "the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians".

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