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He went to the [[United States]] in 1867, and 10 years later graduated from [[Furman University]], [[Greenville, South Carolina]]. He then studied Sanskrit at [[Yale]], under [[W. D. Whitney]], and at [[Johns Hopkins University]]. He was part of the second graduating class to earn the PhD from Johns Hopkins; his degree was conferred in 1879.<ref>{{Cite journal|jstor = 593142|title = Maurice Bloomfield, 1855-1928|journal = Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume = 48|pages = 193–199|last1 = Edgerton|first1 = Franklin|year = 1928}}</ref> He returned to Hopkins as associate professor in 1881 after a stay of two years in [[Berlin]] and [[Leipzig]], and soon afterwards was promoted professor of Sanskrit and comparative [[philology]]. He was forced by ill health to retire in 1926 and was named Professor Emeritus in honor of his 45 years on the Hopkins faculty. After retirement he moved to [[San Francisco]] to be closer to his son, and he died there on June 13, 1928.<ref>{{Cite journal|jstor = 593142|title = Maurice Bloomfield, 1855-1928|journal = Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume = 48|pages = 193–199|last1 = Edgerton|first1 = Franklin|year = 1928}}</ref> In 1896 [[Princeton University]] bestowed the LL.D. degree upon him. | He went to the [[United States]] in 1867, and 10 years later graduated from [[Furman University]], [[Greenville, South Carolina]]. He then studied Sanskrit at [[Yale]], under [[W. D. Whitney]], and at [[Johns Hopkins University]]. He was part of the second graduating class to earn the PhD from Johns Hopkins; his degree was conferred in 1879.<ref>{{Cite journal|jstor = 593142|title = Maurice Bloomfield, 1855-1928|journal = Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume = 48|pages = 193–199|last1 = Edgerton|first1 = Franklin|year = 1928}}</ref> He returned to Hopkins as associate professor in 1881 after a stay of two years in [[Berlin]] and [[Leipzig]], and soon afterwards was promoted professor of Sanskrit and comparative [[philology]]. He was forced by ill health to retire in 1926 and was named Professor Emeritus in honor of his 45 years on the Hopkins faculty. After retirement he moved to [[San Francisco]] to be closer to his son, and he died there on June 13, 1928.<ref>{{Cite journal|jstor = 593142|title = Maurice Bloomfield, 1855-1928|journal = Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume = 48|pages = 193–199|last1 = Edgerton|first1 = Franklin|year = 1928}}</ref> In 1896 [[Princeton University]] bestowed the LL.D. degree upon him. | ||
His papers in the ''[[American Journal of Philology]]'' number a few in comparative [[linguistics]], such as those on assimilation and adaptation in congeneric classes of words, and many valuable contributions to the interpretation of the [[Vedas]], and he is best known as a student of the Vedas. He translated, for [[Max Müller]]'s ''[[Sacred Books of the East]]'', the ''Hymns of the Atharva-Veda'' (1897); contributed to the Buhler-Kielhorn ''Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde'' the section ''The Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha Brahmana'' (1899); was first to edit the ''Kauika-Sutra'' (1890), and in 1907 published, in the ''[[Harvard Oriental Series]], [[A Vedic Word Concordance|A Vedic Concordance]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=E. B.|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=April–June 1967|volume=87|issue=2|page=210|jstor=597425|doi=10.2307/597425}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Tucci|first=Giuseppe|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=East and West|date=March–June 1967|volume=17|issue=1/2|page=156|jstor=29755128}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=J. C. W.|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London|date=1965|volume=28|issue=1|pages=210–211|jstor=611786|doi=10.1017/s0041977x00057530}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=E. V. A.|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=The Classical Review|date=March 1909|volume=23|issue=2|page=58|jstor=693972|doi=10.1017/s0009840x00002833|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1428588}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Keith|first=A. Berriedale|authorlink=Arthur Berriedale Keith|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|date=January 1908|pages=200–204|doi=10.1017/S0035869X00037515|jstor=25210553}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Zubatý|first=Josef|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=Listy Filologické / Folia Philologica|date=1907|volume=34|issue=6|pages=458–460|jstor=23444529}}</ref> In 1905 he published ''Cerberus, the Dog of Hades'', a study in [[comparative mythology]]. ''The Religion of the Veda'' appeared in 1908; ''Life and Stories of the Jaina Savior Parasvanatha'' and a work on the ''Rig Veda'' in 1916. | His papers in the ''[[American Journal of Philology]]'' number a few in comparative [[linguistics]], such as those on assimilation and adaptation in congeneric classes of words, and many valuable contributions to the interpretation of the [[Vedas]], and he is best known as a student of the Vedas. He translated, for [[Max Müller]]'s ''[[Sacred Books of the East]]'', the ''Hymns of the Atharva-Veda'' (1897); contributed to the Buhler-Kielhorn ''Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde'' the section ''The Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha Brahmana'' (1899); was first to edit the ''Kauika-Sutra'' (1890), and in 1907 published, in the ''[[Harvard Oriental Series]], [[A Vedic Word Concordance|A Vedic Concordance]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=E. B.|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|date=April–June 1967|volume=87|issue=2|page=210|jstor=597425|doi=10.2307/597425}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Tucci|first=Giuseppe|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=East and West|date=March–June 1967|volume=17|issue=1/2|page=156|jstor=29755128}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=J. C. W.|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London|date=1965|volume=28|issue=1|pages=210–211|jstor=611786|doi=10.1017/s0041977x00057530}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=E. V. A.|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=The Classical Review|date=March 1909|volume=23|issue=2|page=58|jstor=693972|doi=10.1017/s0009840x00002833|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1428588}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Keith|first=A. Berriedale|authorlink=Arthur Berriedale Keith|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|date=January 1908|pages=200–204|volume=40 |doi=10.1017/S0035869X00037515|jstor=25210553}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Zubatý|first=Josef|title=''A Vedic Concordance'' by Maurice Bloomfield|journal=Listy Filologické / Folia Philologica|date=1907|volume=34|issue=6|pages=458–460|jstor=23444529}}</ref> In 1905 he published ''Cerberus, the Dog of Hades'', a study in [[comparative mythology]]. ''The Religion of the Veda'' appeared in 1908; ''Life and Stories of the Jaina Savior Parasvanatha'' and a work on the ''Rig Veda'' in 1916. | ||
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