Papers of Friedrich Max Mller and of his wife Georgina Adelaide, 1794-1919

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Eng. a. 2003(R)-2010, b. 2033-9, c. 2805-16, d. 2341-69, e. 2710-18; German b. 4, c. 31-5, d. 17-26, e. 20-1, Photogr. d. 3
  • Dates of Creation
      1794-1919
  • Language of Material
      English, German, and French.
  • Physical Description
      84 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Papers of Friedrich Max Mller and his wife Georgina Adelaide, 1794-1919, including: correspondence, writings, printed material, and family and personal papers.

Administrative / Biographical History

Friedrich Max Mller (1823-1900) was Privy Councillor, Taylorian Professor of Modern European Languages and Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections)

Acquisition Information

The papers were deposited in 1964 and bought in 1988.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

A catalogue of the collection is available online at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollectionswmss/online/online.htm.

Related Material

A bronze plaque presented to Max Mller by the Regia Lynceorum Academia is also held by the Bodleian Library (Library Object 723).

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