Background
BLOOMFIELD, Maurice was born on February 23, 1855 in Bielitz, Austria.
BLOOMFIELD, Maurice was born on February 23, 1855 in Bielitz, Austria.
Studied at Chicago University. Furman University, South Carolina (Master of Arts 1879). Yale University; Johns Hopkins University (Doctor of Philosophy 1879).
Honourable Doctor of Laws of Princeton University, 1896. Furman University, 1898. Edited for the first time from the original Sanskrit manuscripts, the Griliyasamgraha of Gobhilaputra (Leipsic, 1881), and the Sutra of KauQika(New Haven, 1890).
Translated the Atharva-Veda in the Sacred Books of the East (edited by Max Muller). Author of the Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha - Brahmana (Strassburg,-1899). Joint-editor (with Professor Richard Garbo of the University of Tubingen) of the chromo-photographic reproduction of The Kashmirian Atharva-Veda, the so-called Paippalada, 1900.
Author of Cerberus, The Dog of Hades, 1905. A Concordance of the Vedas (Harvard Oriental Series), 1907. Religion of the Veda, 1907.
Contributor to numerous learned journals and reviews on subjects connected with the history, religions, mythology, and literature of Ancient India. On Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Comparative Grammar. On Ethnology and Science of Religions.
Vice-President and President of the American Oriental Society, 1905- 1910. Member of the American Philological Association. German Oriental Society.
American Philosophical Society. Foreign Member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Prague. Honourable Member Finno - Ugrian Society of Helsingsfors.
Hardy prize of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Munich, 1908. Professor of 8anskrit and Comparative Philology, Johns Hopkins University.
Club: University.