William Dwight Whitney
American orientalist, linguist and lexicographer (1827–1894)
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- Born
- February 9, 1827
- Died
- 1894
- Works
- 110
Top works
- The British in India
- Collation of a second manuscript of the Atharva-Veda Prâtiçâkhya
- Sanskrit grammar
- On the Avesta
- On the views of Biot and Weber respecting the relations of the Hindu and Chinese systems of asterisms
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1827 births1894 deaths19th-century American lexicographers19th-century philologistsAmerican philologistsAmerican Sanskrit scholarsFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesHumboldt University of Berlin alumniLinguists from the United StatesLinguists of FrenchMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyPeople from Northampton, Massachusetts