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Charles Rockwell Lanman was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on July 8, 1850.
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Charles Rockwell Lanman was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on July 8, 1850.
Charles Rockwell Lanman graduated at Yale in 1871, was a graduate student there (1871 - 1873) under James Hadley and W. D. Whitney, and in Germany (1873 - 1876) studied Sanskrit under Weber and Roth and philology under Georg Curtius and Leskien.
He was professor of Sanskrit at Johns Hopkins University in 1876-1880 and subsequently at Harvard University.
In 1889 he travelled in India and bought for Harvard University Sanskrit and Prakrit books and manuscripts, which, with those subsequently bequeathed to the university by Fitzedward Hall, make the most valuable collection of its kind in America, and made possible the Harvard Oriental Series, edited by Professor Lanman. In 1879-1884 he was secretary and editor of the Transactions, and in 1889-1890 president of the American Philological Association, and in 1884-1894 he was corresponding secretary of the American Oriental Society, in 1897-1907 vice-president, and in 1907-1908 president.
In the Harvard Oriental Series he translated into English Rajafekhara's Karpflra-Manjari (1900), a Prakrit drama, revised and edited Whitney's translation of, and notes on, the Atharva-Veda Samhitd (2 vols. , 1905); he published A Sanskrit Reader, with Vocabulary and Notes (2 vols. , 1884 - 1888); and he wrote on early Hindu pantheism and contributed the section on Brahmanism to Messages of the World's Religions.
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From 1879 to 1884 he was secretary and editor of the Transactions, and in 1890—1891 president of the American Philological Association, and in 1884-1894 he was corresponding secretary of the American Oriental Society, from 1897 to 1907 vice-president, and in 1907-1908 president. He was also Honorary Fellow of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, of France, of England, and of Germany and Corresponding Member of the Society of Sciences at Göttingen, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institute of France. Lanman was a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His Aunt Abby was an artist, and as one of two legatees of the estate of her great uncle American Revolutionary War artist John Trumbull, inherited many of Trumbull's Revolutionary War period paintings and sketches.
Charles Rockwell Lanman was born in Norwich, Connecticut, the eighth of the nine children of Peter Lanman III and Catherine (Cook) Lanman.
She died when he was three years old.
His mother died when he was three years old, and his aunt Abigail (Abby) Trumbull Lanman helped raise him.
