Maurice Bloomfield
Maurice Bloomfield, Ph.D.,
Biography
He was born Maurice Blumenfeld in
He went to the
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 is 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 Kausika-Sutra (1890), and in 1907 published, in the Harvard Oriental Series, A Vedic Concordance.[6][7][8][9][10][11] 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.
Bloomfield was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1904 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1914.[12]
References
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- JSTOR 593142.
- ^ Baltimore Sun, June 14, 1928
- JSTOR 593142.
- JSTOR 593142.
- JSTOR 597425.
- JSTOR 29755128.
- JSTOR 611786.
- S2CID 246876556.
- S2CID 197848065.
- JSTOR 23444529.
- ^ "Maurice Bloomfield". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
External links
- Works related to Maurice Bloomfield at Wikisource
- Maurice Bloomfield at the Database of Classical Scholars
- Works by Maurice Bloomfield at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Maurice Bloomfield at Internet Archive
- Dr. Maurice Bloomfield Noted Orientalist and Philologist Dead at 73