Maurice BloomfieldMAURICE BLOOMFIELD (1855-1928) was born in what is now Poland. He moved to the United States at age thirteen, and studied at Furman, Yale, and Johns Hopkins Universities. A professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology for 45 years, Bloomfield was onsidered an authority on the Vedas. F. MAX MÜLLER (1823-1900) was a 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