James DarmesteterL. H. MILLS (1837-1918) was born in New York City and attended NYU before becoming Professor of Zend Philology at Oxford University. An authority on the Avestan language, Mills translated The Zend-Avesta, Part 3 (1887). F. MAX MÜLLER (1823-1900) was German author and orientalist who lived in England most of his life. As a professor at Oxford, he combined the studies of language, culture, and religion to create the discipline of comparative mythology. His body of work included The Sacred Books of the East, which he had edited. Read More Read Less