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Date transcribed | 2011-05-01 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Lanman | | First Name(s) | Charles Rockwell | | Year of Birth | 1850 | | Entry | Born July 8, 1850, at Norwich, Connecticut : son of Peter Lanman : graduated at the Norwich Free Academy, 1867 : at Yale, 1871 : studied Sanskrit and linguistic science under Whitney till 1873 : Ph. D : to Germany, and studied at Berlin, Tubingen, and Leipzig : called to the John Hopkins University at Baltimore when it opened, 1876 : and to Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1880, as Professor of Sanskrit : Secretary of the American Philological Association, 1879-84 : President, 1889-90 : Corresponding Secretary of the American Oriental Society, 1884-94 : Vice-President, 1894-1905 : joint-editor of its Journal : travelled in India, 1888-9 : collected valuable books and MSS., Sanskrit and Prakrit, for Harvard University : Hony. Member, 1896, of the A.S.B : and, 1902, of the Royal Asiatic Society : Foreign Member, 1897, of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences : lectured at the J. Hopkins University, 1897, on the Poetry of India, and in 1898 at Boston, on Indian Literature : LL.D. at Yale, 1902 : is editing, with the help of other scholars, the Harvard Oriental Series, published by Harvard University, which has reached 20 volumes of important Sanskrit works such as the Jataka Mala, Buddhism, Karpura Manjani, Bhrad-Devata, Atharva- Veda, a Vedic Concordance, Visuddhi- Magga, Panchatantra, Sakuntala, Brahmanas, and other works. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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