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BLOOMFIELD, MAURICE (1855- )

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BLOOMFIELD, See also:MAURICE (1855- ) , See also:American See also:Sanskrit See also:scholar, was See also:born on the 23rd of See also:February 1855, in See also:Bielitz, See also:Austrian See also:Silesia. He went to the See also:United States in 1867, and ten years later graduated from Furman University, See also:Greenville, See also:South Carolina. He then studied Sanskrit at Yale, under W. D. See also:Whitney, and at Johns See also:Hopkins, to which university he returned as See also:associate See also:professor in 1881 after a stay of two years in See also:Berlin and See also:Leipzig, and soon afterwards was promoted professor of Sanskrit and See also:comparative See also:philology. His papers in the American See also:Journal of Philology number a few in comparative linguistics, such as those on assimilation and See also:adaptation in congeneric classes of words, and many valuable " Contributions to the See also:Interpretation of the Vedas," and he is best known as a student of the Vedas. He translated, for Max-See also:Muller's Sacred Books of the See also:East, the See also:Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (1897) ; contributed to the Biihler-Kielhorn Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie and Altertumskunde the See also:section " The Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha See also:Brahmana " (1899) ; was first to edit the Kaucika-Sutra (189o), and in 1907 published, in the Harvard See also:Oriental See also:series, A Vedic See also:Concordance. In 1905 he published See also:Cerberus, the See also:Dog of Hades, a study in comparative See also:mythology.

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