About Edward Washburn Hopkins
Lived 1857 – 1932 (aged 74). Edward Washburn Hopkins was an American linguist, historian, indologist and philologist, known for Journal of the American Oriental Society and Sanskrit.
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.
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: Caste in Ancient India (1881) Manu's Lawbook (1884) Religions of India (1895) The Great Epic of India (1901) India Old and New (1901) Epic Mythology (1915) History of Religions (1918) Origin and Evolution of Religion (1923) The Ethics of India (1924)
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American historian and orientalist (1857–1932)
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Edward Washburn Hopkins was born on 8 September 1857 in Northampton.
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Edward Washburn Hopkins died on 16 July 1932 in Cambridge.
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Edward Washburn Hopkins was a linguist, historian, indologist and philologist.
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Edward Washburn Hopkins was known for Journal of the American Oriental Society and Sanskrit.
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