The Max Müller Library was a
library
A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vir ...
in
Japan named after
Max Müller
Friedrich Max Müller (; 6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic disciplines of Indian ...
, and held books mainly focused on languages and religion. It was badly damaged during an
earthquake and the following fires in September 1923.
LOST MEMORY - LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES DESTROYED IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
( )
See also
* Destruction of libraries
300px, The urn containing ashes of the most precious Polish incunabula and manuscripts, deliberately burnt in the Krasiński Library by a Nazi Germany">Nazi German ''Brandkommando'' following the fall of the Warsaw Uprising
Libraries have been ...
References
Libraries in Japan
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