My Autobiography: A FragmentMüller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
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My Autobiography: A Fragment
Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Asianists -- Germany -- Biography; Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900
30. Prabodha Chandrodaya Brockhaus.
31. History of Indian Literature The same.
32. Aristophanes’ Vespae Hermann.
33. Plauti Rudens The same.
34. Greek Syntax The same.
35. Juvenal Becker.
36. Metaphysics and Logic Weisse.
37. Philosophy of History The same.
38. Greek and Latin Seminary Hermann & Klotze.
39. Latin Society Haupt.
40. Philosophical Society Weisse.
41. Philosophical Society Drobisch.
Summer term, 1843.
42. Greek and Latin Seminary Hermann & Klotze.
43. Philosophical Society Drobisch.
44. Philosophical Society Weisse.
45. Soma-deva Brockhaus.
46. Hitopadesa The same.
47. History of Greeks and Romans Wachsmuth.
48. History of Civilization The same.
49. History after the Fifteenth Century Flathe.
50. History of Ancient Philosophy Niedner.
Winter term, 1843-4.
51. Rig-veda Brockhaus.
52. Elementa Persica Fleischer.
53. Greek and Latin Seminary Hermann & Klotze.
Here my _Collegien-Buch_ breaks off, the fact being that I was
preparing to go to Berlin to hear the lectures of Bopp and Schelling.
It will be clear from the above list that I certainly attempted too
much. I ought either to have devoted all my time to classical studies
exclusively, or carried on my philosophical studies more
systematically. I confess that, delighted as I was with Gottfried
Hermann and Haupt as my guides and teachers in classics, I found
little that could rouse my enthusiasm for Greek and Latin literature,
and I always required a dose of that to make me work hard. Everything
seemed to me to have been done, and there was no virgin soil left to
the plough, no ruins on which to try one’s own spade. Hermann and
Haupt gave me work to do, but it was all in the critical line—the
genealogical relation of various MSS., or, again, the peculiarities of
certain poets, long before I had fully grasped their general
character. What Latin vowels could or could not form elision in
Horace, Propertius, or Ovid, was a subject that cost me much labour,
and yet left very small results as far as I was personally concerned.
One clever conjecture, or one indication to show that one MS. was
dependent on the other, was rewarded with a Doctissime or
Excellentissime, but a paper on Aeschylus and his view of a divine
government of the world received but a nodding approval.
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