MAURICE

See also:

• BLOOMFIELD
• MAURICE BLOOMFIELD (1855- )
• BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT (1766-1823)

BLOOMFIELD (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 .