***mythology & folklore*** Select the correct answer.
Which theorist was a German mythologlst who used comparatlve ingulstics to study mythology, translated Sanskrit texts such as the
Upanishads and the Rig Veda, and wrote the famous book The Sacred Texts of the East?
A. Edith Hamilton
B. Frledrich Max Muller
C. James Frazer
D. Carl Jung
E. Joseph Campbell

B. Frledrich Max Muller

Explanation:

Friedrich Max Müller was a German scholar during the 19th century. He was studying Sanskrit and Indian Vedas, and his general focus was on comparative religion and studies of mythology. He believed religion has to be studied through its basic origin and through language. That is why he closely studying Indo-European languages and Rig Veda, the Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns.

Muller’s most notable published work is The Sacred Books of the East which he prepared and edited. It is the monumental edition composed of English translations of religious texts from Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroasticsm, Taoism, and other Asian religions. The set has 50 volumes.