Muir, John (1810-1882)

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Biodata

Muir, John (*5. Februar 1810 in Glasgow, †7. März 1882 in Edinburgh). - Schottischer Sanskrit-Forscher und christlicher Apologet. - Ging 1829 nach Indien in die Zivilverwaltung der East India Company, wo er verschiedene Posten in der Administration bekleidete. 1853 zog er sich in den Ruhestand zurück und ging zurück nach Schottland. Begründete 1862 einen Lehrstuhl für Sanskrit und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft an der Univ. in Edinburgh.

Lit.: Buckland, S. 303, s.v. Muir, John1. • Young, Richard Fox: Resistant hinduism: Sanskrit sources on anti-christian apologetics in early 19th-century India. Vienna : Institut für Indologie der Univ. Wien, 1981. - (Publications of the De Nobili Research Library ; vol. 8) • Powell, Avril A.: Scottish Orientalists and India : the Muir Brothers, Religion, Education and Empire / Avril A. Powell. - Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2010. - xv, 318 S. : Ill., Kt. - (Worlds of the East India Company ; 4).