Charles Horne

Charles Francis Horne (1870-1942) was an American editor and writer of more than one hundred books. His most important of those were history books. He was also a college English professor in New York City.

Friedrich Max Mueller (1823-1900) was a German philologist and translator. He helped to found the fields of Indian studies as well as comparative religion. Sacred Books of the East, of which The Dhammapada is a part, was a great set of translated texts that introduced English readers to the subject.