Edward Washburn Hopkins
Born(1857-09-08)September 8, 1857
Northampton, Massachusetts
DiedJuly 16, 1932(1932-07-16) (aged 74)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia College, Leipzig
Known forSanskrit scholar and editor of the Journal of the American Oriental Society
SpouseMarry S. Clark[1]
Scientific career
FieldsSanskrit Language and Literature
InstitutionsYale University
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Edward Washburn Hopkins, Ph.D., LL.D. (September 8, 1857 – July 16, 1932), an American Sanskrit scholar, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts.

He graduated at Columbia College in 1878, studied at Leipzig, where he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1881, was an instructor at Columbia (1881–1885), and professor at Bryn Mawr (1885–1895), and became professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Yale University in 1895.[2]

He became secretary of the American Oriental Society and editor of the Journal of the American Oriental Society, to which he contributed many valuable papers, especially on numerical and temporal categories in early Sanskrit literature. He wrote:[3]

References

  1. ^ Edgerton, Franklin (1932). "Edward Washburn Hopkins, 1857-1932". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 52 (4): 311–315. doi:10.2307/593848. ISSN 0003-0279.
  2. ^ Officers and Graduates of Columbia University: Originally the College of the Province of New York Known as King's College : General Catalogue, 1754-1900. New York: Columbia University. 1900. p. 158.
  3. ^ Chisholm 1911.

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