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The nineteenth-century scholar who is generally regarded as the founder of the modern field of religious studies is

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Answer: Friedrich max Müller

Explanation: Friedrich Max Müller was German-born philologist and Orientalist, he was born in the year 1823 and he died in the year 1900 he lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. His religious views were of the Lutheran ideology. He was appointed as a professor of phylology at Oxford, there he formed a society of the best Oriental scholars from Europe and India, published a series of translations of the Sacred Books of the East. He also published a book about the Hindu tradition called the

The Six Systems of Hindu Philosophy in 1899, and other translations in English of India,Indian, Arabic, Chinese and Iranian religious books.

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