Walter Eugene Clark

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Walter Eugene Clark
Born
Walter Eugene Clark

(1881-09-08)September 8, 1881
DiedSeptember 30, 1960(1960-09-30) (aged 79)

Walter Eugene Clark (September 8, 1881 – September 30, 1960), was an American philologist. He was the second Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University and editor of the volumes 38-44 of the Harvard Oriental Series. He translated the Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata with critical notes which was published in 1930, by the University of Chicago Press.[1][2][3]

Education

Clark was born on September 8, 1881, in Digby, Nova Scotia, and came to the United States in 1883.[4]

Clark received his A.B. in 1903, A.M. in 1904 from Harvard. After receiving his Doctorate from Harvard in 1906, with the dissertation titled "Quid de rebus Indicis scirent Graeci prisci quaeritur" he went to Germany to Berlin to receive further training under the Indologist Richard Pischel.[5]

He joined the "Department of Comparative Philology" at University of Chicago as the "Instructor in Sanskrit". In 1915, he was promoted to Assistant Professor of the "Department of Comparative Philology, General Linguistics, and Indo-Iranian Philology" and from 1923 to 1927 as Associate Professor of Sanskrit.[6]

In 1927[4] he became the Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard. He held the position until his retirement in 1950.[5] He was the editor of the volumes 38-44 of the Harvard Oriental Series after Charles Lanman.[7]

He was a member of the

Kirkland House (1935–46) on September 1, 1935, succeeding Edward A. Whitney.[4][5]

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Academic offices
Preceded by Wales Professor of Sanskrit Harvard University
1927 - 1950
Succeeded by
Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls