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See also:MAURICE See also:BLOOMFIELD (1855- )
, See also:American See also:Sanskrit See also:scholar, was See also:born on the 23rd of See also:February 1855, in See also:Bielitz, See also:Austrian See also:Silesia
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He went to the See also:United States in 1867, and ten years later graduated from Furman University, See also:Greenville, See also:South Carolina
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He then studied Sanskrit at Yale, under W
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See also:Whitney, and at Johns See also:Hopkins, to which university he returned as See also:associate See also:professor in 1881 after a stay of two years in See also:Berlin and See also:Leipzig, and soon afterwards was promoted professor of Sanskrit and See also:comparative See also:philology
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His papers in the American See also:Journal of Philology number a few in comparative linguistics, such as those on assimilation and See also:adaptation in congeneric classes of words, and many valuable " Contributions to the See also:Interpretation of the Vedas," and he is best known as a student of the Vedas
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He translated, for Max-See also: |
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