A. V. Williams Jackson
American specialist on Indo-Iranian languages
About A. V. Williams Jackson
Lived 1862 – 1937 (aged 75). A. V. Williams Jackson was an American linguist, translator, academic, scholar of English, iranologist and orientalist.
Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, L.H.D., Ph.D., LL.D. (February 9, 1862 – August 8, 1937) was an American specialist on Indo-European languages.
Biography Left to right: Unknown, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, A. V. W. Jackson, Henry Clews, and Djelal Munif Bey at Columbia University in 1914 He was born in New York City on February 9, 1862.
He died on August 8, 1937.
Publications A Hymn of Zoroaster (1888) An Avesta Grammar in Comparison with Sanskrit (1892) An Avesta Reader (1893) Avesta, the Bible of Zoroaster (1893) Zoroaster, the Prophet of Ancient Iran (1898) Die iranische Religion (1900) Persia, Past and Present (1906) Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian MSS. in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ (1913) From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam (1911) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts Presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by A. S. Cochran (1914), with A. Yohannan Early Persian Poetry (1920) (Editor). Full text online at ibiblio.org (All nine volumes in HTML form, complete, chapter-by-chapter, with all illustrations, footnotes and a combined index) He made many contributions to the Journal of the American Oriental Society.
He edited the Columbia University Indo-Iranian Series (13 vols., New York, 1901–32).
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American specialist on Indo-Iranian languages (1862–1937)
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A. V. Williams Jackson was born on 9 February 1862 in New York City.
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A. V. Williams Jackson died on 8 August 1937 in New York City.
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A. V. Williams Jackson was a linguist, translator, academic, scholar of English, iranologist and orientalist.
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