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Spanning more than 50 years, Friedrich Müller's career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned societies could bestow.

Spanning more than 50 years, Friedrich Müller had begun his career with the unpromising apprenticeship of being a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned societies could bestow.