Walter Eugene Clark
Walter Eugene Clark | |
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Born | Walter Eugene Clark September 8, 1881 |
Died | September 30, 1960 | (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
Bibliography
- Walter Eugene Clark (1933). India. Open Court Publishing Company.
References
- JSTOR 224577.
- JSTOR 27951268.
- JSTOR 593220.
- ^ a b c "CLARK APPOINTED TO FILL VACANCY LEFT BY WHITNEY". Article, May 14, 1935. The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-24560-2.
- ^ Silverstein, Michael. "The history of organization of a University of Chicago unit dealing with linguistics" (PDF). Article, 2006. University of Chicago. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
- ^ "About the Harvard Oriental Series". Article. Harvard University. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
External links
- Walter Eugene Clark at the Database of Classical Scholars