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CARL DARLING BUCK (1866– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 720 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DARLING BUCK (1866– )  ,
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American philologist, was born on the 2nd of
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October 1866, at Bucksport, Maine . He graduated at Yale in 1886, was a graduate student there for three years, and studied at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (1887–1889) and in
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Leipzig (1889–1892) . In 1892 he became professor of
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Sanskrit and Indo-
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European
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comparative
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philology in the University of Chicago; but it is in the narrower field of the
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Italic dialects that his important
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work lies, including Der Vocalismus der oskischen Sprache (1892), The Oscan-Umbrian Verb-
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System (1895), and Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian (1904), as well as an excellent precis of the Italic
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languages in Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia . He collaborated with W . G . Hale (q.v.) in the preparation of A Latin Grammar (1903) .

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