Maurice Bloomfield
Maurice Bloomfield · Philosophy & Social Sciences
American Sanskrit and Vedic scholar, major figure in Indo-European studies.
1855, Bielitz, Austrian Silesia (now Bielsko-Biała, Poland) — 1928
Austria-Hungary · United States
Maurice Bloomfield is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — American Sanskrit and Vedic scholar, major figure in Indo-European studies.
Bloomfield was a pioneering American Sanskrit and Vedic scholar and comparative philologist at Johns Hopkins University, best known for his monumental Vedic Concordance (1906) and Vedic Variants, works central to Indo-European and Indological studies. He was among the second class to earn a PhD from Johns Hopkins. Born Maurice Blumenfeld to Jewish parents in Austrian Silesia, he was an uncle of the linguist Leonard Bloomfield.
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American Sanskrit and Vedic scholar, major figure in Indo-European studies.
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