Henry Clarke Warren (November 18, 1854 – January 3, 1899) was an American scholar of Sanskrit and Pali. He was a co-founder of the Harvard Oriental Series.
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| Born | November 18, 1854 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | January 3, 1899 (aged 44) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for | Scholar of Sanskrit and Pali |
| Notable work | Harvard Oriental Series (co-founder) |
| Father | Samuel Denis Warren |
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Biography
editBorn in Boston, Warren was a son of Susan Cornelia Clarke (1825–1901) and Samuel Denis Warren (1817–1888), a wealthy paper manufacturer in Boston. He had four adult siblings:[a] Samuel D. Warren II (1852–1910), businessperson; Cornelia Lyman Warren (1857–1921), philanthropist; Edward Perry Warren (1860–1928), art collector; and Fredrick Fiske Warren (1862–1938), political radical and utopist.[1]
A fall as a young boy caused a spine injury which left Warren 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 Charles Rockwell Lanman and Maurice Bloomfield, and at Oxford University with T. W. Rhys Davids.
Warren, along with Lanman, founded the Harvard Oriental Series in 1891. The same year, he purchased the house of Charles Beck in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and lived in it until his death. Warren died in the home on January 3, 1899.[2] Upon his death, he left $15,000 ($549,360 in 2023) towards publication of the Harvard Oriental Series. His house, along with the bulk of his estate, was bequeathed to Harvard University; the building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Beck-Warren House.[3]
Warren's work Buddhism in Translation (1896) and translation (along with Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi) of the Visuddhimagga of Buddhaghosa (1950) appeared as Volume 3 and Volume 41 of the Harvard Oriental Series, respectively.[4]
Sources
edit- Obituary: Lanman, C. R.; Henry Clarke Warren (1854-1899): A Brief Memorial; Buddhist Annual of Ceylon, Vol I (1920), No. 2, p. 28-32
Notes
edit- ^ Another sibling, Josiah Fiske Warren, died in infancy.
References
edit- ^ Green, Martin Burgess (1989). The Mount Vernon Street Warrens: A Boston Story, 1860-1910. Charles Scribner's Sons. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Recent Deaths: Henry Clarke Warren of Cambridge". Boston Evening Transcript. January 4, 1899. p. 7. Retrieved June 29, 2024 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Beck-Warren House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
- ^ Lanman, Charles R. (1899). "Henry Clarke Warren: An Obituary Notice". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 20: 332–337. JSTOR 592341. [1]
External links
edit- About The Harvard Oriental Series at harvard.edu
- Works by or about Henry Clarke Warren at the Internet Archive
- Works by Henry Clarke Warren at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
