Louis Herbert Gray (1875–1955) was an American Orientalist, born at Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University in 1896 and from Columbia University (Ph.D., 1900).
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Gray contributed to the annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, with contributions on such topics as the Avestan texts.[1] He served as American collaborator on the Orientalische Bibliographie in 1900–1906; revised translations for The Jewish Encyclopedia in 1904–1905; was associate editor of the Hastings Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics (Edinburgh, 1905–15); editor of Mythology of all Races (1915–18); translated Subandhu's Vasavadatta (1913);[2] and afterwards (1921) served as professor at the University of Nebraska. His 1902 work Indo-Iranian Phonology was published as the second volume of the 13 volume Columbia University Indo-Iranian Series, published by the Columbia University Press, in between 1901–32 and edited by A. V. Williams Jackson.[3]
He was one of the American commissioners to negotiate peace in Paris (1918) and attaché to the American embassy.
Works
edit- Louis Herbert Gray (1902). Indo-Iranian Phonology: With Special Reference to the Middle and New Indo-Iranian Languages. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Gray, Louis H. & Mumford, Ethel Watts (1904). The Hundred Songs of Kamal ad-Din of Isfahan. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- Gray, Louis H. (1939). Foundations of Language. New York: Macmillan.
References
edit- ^ Gray, Louis H. (1900). "Contributions to Avestan Syntax, the Conditional Sentence". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. XII (1). New York: New York Academy of Science: 548–553. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1899.tb54994.x. S2CID 85961723.
- ^ Keith, A. Berriedale (October 1914). "Vāsavadattā by Louis H. Gray". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 46: 1100–1104. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00047638. JSTOR 25189260. S2CID 162423241.
- ^ Dames, M. Longworth (July 1903). "Indo-Iranian Phonology by Louis H. Gray". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 35: 603–606. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00030938. JSTOR 25208561. S2CID 163872727.
External links
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Media related to Louis Herbert Gray at Wikimedia Commons
- "Louis H. Gray" Works by Louis Herbert Gray at JSTOR
- Vasavadatta, a Sanskrit romance by Subandhu at the Internet Archive
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