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BLOOMFIELD, MAURICE (1855- )

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 86 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BLOOMFIELD, MAURICE (1855- ) , American Sanskrit scholar, was born on the 23rd of February 1855, in
Bielitz
 , Austrian Silesia. 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
 , 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. 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-Muller's Sacred Books of the
East
 , the Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (1897) ; contributed to the Biihler-Kielhorn Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie and Altertumskunde the section " The Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha Brahmana " (1899) ; was first to edit the Kaucika-Sutra (189o), 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.


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