Max Muller's Death

The non-fiction author Max Muller died at the age of 76. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Remembered for his scholarship in the fields of Near and Far Eastern studies and philology, this German-born academic and author published a number of important works, including Chips from a German Workshop and The Sacred Books of the East.

His marriage to Georgina Grenfell resulted in a son named John and daughters named Beatrice, Ada, and Mary. His father, Wilhelm Muller, was a popular poet whose texts had been used by composer Franz Schubert.

Quotes

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A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

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Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

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Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will.

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How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

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Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.