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Louis Herbert Gray, Ph.D. (1875–1955) was an American Orientalist, born at
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. He graduated from
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in 1896 and from
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(Ph.D., 1900). Gray contributed to the annals of the
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, with contributions on such topics as the
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texts. He served as American collaborator on the ''Orientalische Bibliographie'' in 1900-1906; revised translations for ''The
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'' in 1904-1905; was associate editor of the Hastings ''
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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
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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, published by the
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, in between 1901–32 and edited by
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. He was one of the American commissioners to negotiate peace in
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(1918) and ''
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'' to the American
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.


Works

* * * 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 {{US-linguist-stub