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Louis Herbert Gray, Ph.D. (1875–1955) was an American
Orientalist, born at
Newark, New Jersey
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in 1896 and from
Columbia University
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(Ph.D., 1900).
Gray contributed to the annals of the
New York Academy of Sciences
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, with contributions on such topics as the
Avestan
Avestan (), or historically Zend, is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages: Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd millennium BCE) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BCE). They are known only from their conjoined use as the scrip ...
texts. He served as American collaborator on the ''Orientalische Bibliographie'' in 1900-1906; revised translations for ''The
Jewish Encyclopedia
''The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day'' is an English-language encyclopedia containing over 15,000 articles on th ...
'' in 1904-1905; was associate editor of the Hastings ''
Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics
The ''Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics'' is a 12-volume work (plus an index volume) edited by James Hastings, written between 1908 and 1921 and composed of entries by many contributors. It covers not only religious matters but thousands of an ...
'' (
Edinburgh
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, 1905–15); editor of ''
Mythology of all Races'' (1915–18); translated
Subandhu's ''Vasavadatta'' (1913); and afterwards (1921) served as professor at the
University of Nebraska
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. His 1902 work ''Indo-Iranian Phonology'' was published as the second volume of the 13 volume
Columbia University Indo-Iranian Series
The ''Columbia University Indo-Iranian Series'' is a 13-volume book series edited by A. V. Williams Jackson and published by the Columbia University Press between 1901 and 1932.
Volumes
See also
*''Harvard Oriental Series''
*Loeb Classical Libra ...
, published by the
Columbia University Press
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, in between 1901–32 and edited by
A. V. Williams Jackson.
He was one of the American commissioners to negotiate peace in
Paris
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(1918) and ''
attaché
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'' to the American
embassy
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.
Works
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* Gray, Louis H. (1939)
''Foundations of Language'' New York: Macmillan.
References
External links
H. Gray" Works by Louis Herbert Gray at JSTOR*
1875 births
1955 deaths
American lexicographers
Linguists from the United States
Columbia University alumni
People from Newark, New Jersey
Princeton University alumni
Linguistic Society of America presidents
Sanskrit–English translators
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