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American linguistic scholar and professor (1885–1963)
Franklin Edgerton
Born July 24, 1885 Died December 7, 1963 Discipline
linguistics Institutions Notable works translation of the
Bhagavad Gita
Franklin Edgerton (July 24, 1885 – December 7, 1963) was an American
[1]
linguistic scholar. He was Salisbury Professor of
Sanskrit and
Comparative Philology at
Yale University (1926) and
visiting professor at
Benares Hindu University (1953–4). Between 1913 and 1926, he was the Professor of Sanskrit at the
University of Pennsylvania .
[2] He is well known for his exceptionally
literal translation of the
Bhagavad Gita
[3] which was published as volume 38-39 of the
Harvard Oriental Series in 1944. He also edited the parallel edition of four recensions of the Simhāsana Dvātrṃśika ("32 Tales of the Throne", also known as Vikrama Charita : "Adventures of
Vikrama "), and a reconstruction of the (lost) original Sanskrit text of the
Panchatantra .
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7] Edgerton was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1920, the
American Philosophical Society in 1935.
[8]
Publications
Edgerton, Franklin (1924). Panchatantra reconstructed . 2 Volumes. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society.
Volume 1: Text ,
Volume 2: Translation
Edgerton, Franklin (1926). Vikrama's Adventures . Harvard Oriental Series, Volumes 26 & 27. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Part 1: Translations ,
Part 2: Texts
Edgerton, Franklin (1931)
The elephant-lore of the Hindus . Yale University Press.
Edgerton, Franklin (1944) The Bhagavad Gita, Translated and interpreted from the Sanskrit, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass.
Edgerton, Franklin (1953). Buddhist hybrid sanskrit grammar and dictionary, Vol. 1:
Grammar . New Haven: Yale University Press
Edgerton, Franklin (1953). Buddhist hybrid sanskrit grammar and dictionary, Vol. 2:
Dictionary . New Haven: Yale University Press
Edgerton, Franklin (1965). The Beginnings of Indian Philosophy: Selections from the Rig Veda, Atharva Veda, Upanisads, and Mahabharata, Translated from the Sanskrit with an Introduction, notes, and glossarial index. Harvard University Press & George Allen & Unwin London
References
^ M. B. Emeneau,
"Franklin Edgerton" ,
Language , Vol. 40, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1964), pp. 111-123
^
"Franklin Edgerton (1885-1963), portrait photograph" . Archived from
the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-05-27 .
^
Short Biography at Oxford Reference
^
Brown, W. Norman (1925-01-01). "Review". The American Journal of Philology . 46 (2): 186–190.
doi :
10.2307/289147 .
ISSN
0002-9475 .
JSTOR
289147 .
^ Dewhurst, R. P. (1925-04-01). "Review". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland . 57 (2): 326–327.
doi :
10.1017/S0035869X00068775 .
ISSN
0035-869X .
JSTOR
25220721 .
S2CID
250346558 .
^ R., S. (1925-01-01). "Review". Revue Archéologique . Cinquième Série. 21 (ArticleType: book-review / Full publication date: JANVIER-JUIN 1925 / Copyright © 1925 Presses Universitaires de France): 204.
ISSN
0035-0737 .
JSTOR
41031931 .
^
Rose, H. A. (1924-12-31). "Review". Folklore . 35 (4): 396–399.
ISSN
0015-587X .
JSTOR
1255942 .
^
"APS Member History" . search.amphilsoc.org . Retrieved 2023-06-08 .
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