Henry Clarke Warren (1854–1899) was an American scholar of
Sanskrit and
Pali. Warren along with
Charles Rockwell Lanman founded the
Harvard Oriental Series
The ''Harvard Oriental Series'' is a book series founded in 1891 by Charles Rockwell Lanman and Henry Clarke Warren. Lanman served as its inaugural editor (1891-1934) for the first 37 volumes. Other editors of the series include Walter Eugene Clark ...
in 1891; on his death in 1899 he left $15000 towards its publication.
Life
He was the second of four sons of Susan Cornelia Clarke (1825-1901) and
Samuel Denis Warren (1817-1888), a wealthy paper manufacturer in Boston, who died in 1888. He had four siblings:
Cornelia Lyman Warren
Cornelia Warren (March 21, 1857 – June 4, 1921) was an American farmer and an educational and social service philanthropist, widely known for her investment in social improvement projects. She was a trustee of Wellesley College, bought the locat ...
, philanthropist;
Samuel D. Warren II (1854-1899), businessperson;
Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928), art collector;
Fredrick Fiske Warren (1862-1938), political radical and utopist.
A fall as a young boy caused a spine injury which left him impaired for the rest of his life. He graduated in 1879 with an A.B. from Harvard University, and followed it up with studies at Johns Hopkins University under Lanman and
Maurice Bloomfield
Maurice Bloomfield, Ph.D., LL.D. (February 23, 1855 – June 12, 1928) was an Austrian-born American philologist and Sanskrit scholar.
Biography
He was born Maurice Blumenfeld in Bielitz ( pl, Bielsko), in what was at that time Austrian Sil ...
, and at Oxford University with
T. W. Rhys Davids. He purchased the house of Charles Beck in 1891, and lived in it until his death in 1899 at which he bequeathed it, along with the bulk of his estate, to Harvard University; the building is now known as the
Beck-Warren House
The Beck-Warren House, also known as the Warren House, is a historic house located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now on the campus of Harvard University, this large Greek Revival wood-frame house was built in 1833 for Professor Charles Beck, and ...
(or Warren House).
His work ''Buddhism in Translation'' (1896) and translation (along with
Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi) of the ''
Visuddhimagga
The ''Visuddhimagga'' (Pali; English: ''The Path of Purification''), is the 'great treatise' on Buddhist practice and Theravāda Abhidhamma written by Buddhaghosa approximately in the 5th century in Sri Lanka. It is a manual condensing and syst ...
'' of
Buddhaghosa
Buddhaghosa was a 5th-century Indian Theravada Buddhist commentator, translator and philosopher. He worked in the Great Monastery (''Mahāvihāra'') at Anurādhapura, Sri Lanka and saw himself as being part of the Vibhajjavāda school and in t ...
(1950) respectively appeared as Volume 3 and Volume 41 of the Harvard Oriental Series.
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References
* Obituary: Lanman, C. R.; ''Henry Clarke Warren (1854-1899): A Brief Memorial;'' Buddhist Annual of Ceylon, Vol I (1920), No. 2, p. 28-32
External links
Harvard Oriental Series
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1854 births
1899 deaths
Harvard University alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni