About Edward Elbridge Salisbury
Lived 1814 – 1901 (aged 86). Edward Elbridge Salisbury was an American university teacher and sanskrit.
Edward Elbridge Salisbury (April 6, 1814 – February 5, 1901) was an American Sanskritist and Arabist.
Biography Edward E. Salisbury was born in Boston on April 6, 1814. He graduated from Yale University in 1832. He married Abigail Salisbury Phillips in 1836 and they toured throughout Europe for three years. Salisbury was appointed Professor of Arabic and Sanskrit at Yale in 1841. The position of Salisbury was the only University Chair of Sanskrit in America till 1854, when a separate "Professorship of Sanskrit and kindred languages" was created with William Dwight Whitney as its first incumbent.
Salisbury also served as the President of the American Oriental Society from 1863 to 1866, and again from 1873 to 1880. He was conferred the degree of LL.D. twice, first by Yale University in 1869, and again by Harvard University in 1886.
He died from pneumonia in New Haven, Connecticut on February 5, 1901.
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American Sanskritist and Arabist (1814–1901)
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