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He was born on April 6, 1814 in Boston, Massachussets, United States. His father, Josiah, was of English ancestry, of a noted family; his mother, Abby (Breese) Salisbury, was of Huguenot descent.
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He was born on April 6, 1814 in Boston, Massachussets, United States. His father, Josiah, was of English ancestry, of a noted family; his mother, Abby (Breese) Salisbury, was of Huguenot descent.
His early education was given him by his father, who, having been connected with the mercantile business of the family, then for a time a clergyman in Boston, had retired to private life. Fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, he went to Yale, where his brother-in-law, Theodore Dwight Woolsey, became professor of Greek in 1831. After graduating, in 1832, he spent several years in advanced study in New Haven, paying especial attention to Hebrew and the cognate languages.
In Europe for nearly four years he studied Oriental languages, especially Arabic with De Sacy and Garcin de Tassy in Paris, and Sanskrit with Bopp in Berlin. He spent the year 1842-43 in Europe, studying chiefly Sanskrit in Bonn and Paris.
On his return to America in 1841 he was appointed professor of Arabic and Sanskrit at Yale. When he began his work at Yale, in 1843, he was the only scholar of his kind in America, and he at once began to supply what was greatly needed. It was given to him to open the wide field of Oriental studies in this country, to arouse interest in great literatures and in chapters of history hitherto little known, and to prepare the way for scientific research in the two chief domains which his chair included.
In the early years of the American Oriental Society (founded in 1842) he was one of its main pillars. He contributed to its first volume, and provided at his own expense fonts of Oriental type.
In the Journal of the Society he published papers dealing with Arabic, Sanskrit, Persian cuneiform, Assyrian, and Phoenician, as well as an able essay on the genuineness of the Nestorian monument of Singan-fu. He was in constant correspondence with American missionaries in the East, who provided him with valuable material. In 1854 he relinquished the professorship of Sanskrit to his former pupil, William Dwight Whitney, retaining, however, the chair of Arabic until 1856.
It was after the latter date that he did his principal work on research and publication. The following papers, printed in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, deserve especial mention: "Contributions from Original Sources to Our Knowledge of the Science of Muslim Tradition" (1859; vol. VII); "Materials for the History of the Muhammadan Doctrine of Predestination and Free Will" (1863; vol. VIII); "The Book of Sulaimen's First Ripe Fruit, Disclosing the Mysteries of the Nusairian Religion" (1864; vol. VIII).
In his later years he gave much time to studies in the fields of art and history. His eyesight failing, he devoted himself to genealogical research. First published were his Family-Memorials (2 vols. , 1885); then the Family-Histories and Genealogies (5 vols. , 1892), dealing with his wife's family. It was only through funds contributed by him that Yale was enabled to secure for its faculty Professors William Dwight Whitney and James Dwight Dana.
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He was elected a member of the Society Asiatique in 1838, a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres, Constantinople, in 1855, and a corresponding member of the Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft in 1859.
His knowledge of the Arabic language was thorough and accurate, and he was well acquainted with the literature which up to that time had been made available.
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"For some ten years he was virtually the Society, doing its work and paying its bills. He gave it standing and credit in the world of scholars" (In Memoriam, post, p. 6).
In 1836 he married his cousin, Abigail Salisbury Phillips, daughter of Edward Phillips of Boston, and with her proceeded to Europe. His first wife had died in 1869. His second wife was Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, daughter of Judge Charles J. McCurdy of Lyme, Connecticut.