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Maurice Bloomfield, Ph. D., LL.D. (
February 23 1855 -
June 12 1928) was an
American philologist and
Sanskrit scholar.
Bloomfield was born in
Bielitz, in what was at that time
Austrian Silesia (today it's in
Poland). His sister was
Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler. He went to the
United States in 1867, and ten years later graduated from
Furman University,
Greenville, South Carolina. He then studied Sanskrit at
Yale, under
W. D. Whitney, and at
Johns Hopkins University, to which university he returned as associate professor in 1881 after a stay of two years in
Berlin and
Leipzig, and soon afterwards was promoted professor of Sanskrit and comparative
philology. In
1896 Princeton University bestowed the LL.D. degree upon him.
His papers in the
American Journal of Philology number a few in comparative
linguistics, such as those on assimilation and adaptation in congeneric classes of words, and many valuable contributions to the interpretation of the
Vedas, and he's best known as a student of the Vedas. He translated, for
Max Müller's
Sacred Books of the East, the
Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (1897); contributed to the Buhler-Kielhorn
Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde the section
The Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha Brahmana (1899); was first to edit the
Kauika-Sutra (1890), and in 1907 published, in the
Harvard Oriental series, A Vedic Concordance. In 1905 he published
Cerberus, the Dog of Hades, a study in comparative
mythology.
The Religion of the Veda appeared in
1908;
Life and Stories of the Jaina Savior Parasvanatha and a work on the
Rig Veda in
1916.
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