Word: sanskrit
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Dean Wright was born at Urumjah, Persia, in 1852. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1873, and three years later received from Dartmouth the degree of A. M. From 1876 until 1878 he was a student of classical philology and Sanskrit at Leipzig University, where he was the fellow student and intimate friend of the late Professor Minton Warren. In 1878 he became associate professor of Greek at Dartmouth; and in 1886 professor of classical philology at Johns Hopkins. The following year he became professor of Greek at Harvard, and was later made chairman of the division of ancient...
Professor de Gubernatis graduated from the University of Turin, and in 1860 became professor of rhetoric in the Gymnasium of Chieri. In 1862 he was sent to Berlin by the Italian government to study under Professors Bopp and Weber. He became professor of Sanskrit and comparative literature at the University of Florence in 1863, and has been professor of Italian literature at the University of Rome since 1891. Professor de Gubernatis is well known as a dramatist, poet, journalist, critic, and orientalist. Among his best known plays are "Pere delle Vigue," "La Morte di Catone," "Romolo," and "Savitri...
...Translation of the Atharva-Veda," by Professor W. D. Whitney h.'76, late of the Sanskrit Department of Yale, will soon be published in the Harvard Oriental Series by the University. Professor Whitney died in 1894, leaving the work unfinished. The manuscript was then turned over to Professor C. R. Lanman, of the Department of Indic. Philology, and editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, who has spent over five years in completing, revising, and editing it. Professor Whitney's translation of the nineteen books of the Atharva-Veda is an extremely close and literal English version. Exclusive of the matter...
...Gubernatis graduated from the University of Turin, and in 1860 was made professor of rhetoric in the Gymnasium of Chieri, where he remained until 1862, when he was sent to Berlin by the Italian government to study under Professor Bopp and Weber. In 1863 he became extraordinary professor of sanskrit and comparative literature at the University of Florence, becoming ordinary professor in 1869. He is well known as a dramatist, lyric poet, journalist, critic, orientalist, and mythologist. Among his best known plays are: "Pere delle Vigne," "La Morte daCatone," "Romolo," "II Re Nala" and "Savitri," Professor De Gubernatis...
...Lecture. The Little Clay Cart (an ancient Sanskrit drama). Dr. A. W. Ryder. Fogg Lecture Room...