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Date transcribed2011-05-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Jackson    
First Name(s)  Abraham Valentine Williams    
Year of Birth  1862    
Entry  Born Feb. 9, 1862, in New York City U.S.A. : son of David S. Jackson, merchant : educated at New York : studied at Columbia University, N.Y., and at Halle in Germany : L.H.D. : Ph.D. : and LL.D. : Professor of Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia University : his special field of research as a scholar is the sarced literature of the Zoroastrian religion : visited India and Ceylon in 1901 : travelled in Persia and Central Asia in 1903 for purposes of archaeological research, especially of Zoroastrianism : collated part of the Persian inscription of King Darius on the Behistun rock : Director of the American Oriental Society : Hon. Member of the Society for making Researches into Zoroastrian Religion, Bombay, (1899) : twice delegated by the U.S. Government to International Congresses of Orientalists : his chief works are A Hymn of Zoroaster, 1888 ; Avesta Grammar in Comparison with Sanskrit, 1892 ; Avesta Reader, 1893 ; Zoroaster, 1898 ; Die iranische Religion, 1900 ; Persia, Past and Present ; Trans- Caspian and Turkistan, 1905 ; besides articles contributed to Journals and Encyclopaedias.     
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