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Edward Washburn Hopkins

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Name
  
Edward Hopkins

Died
  
1932

Education
  
Columbia University


Books
  
The Great Epic of India: Ch, Epic mythology, The Religions of India, India Old and New - with a Me, The history of religions

Edward Washburn Hopkins, Ph.D., LL.D. (September 8, 1857 – 1932), American Sanskrit scholar, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts.

He graduated at Columbia University in 1878, studied at Leipzig, where he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1881, was an instructor at Columbia (1881–1885), and professor at Bryn Mawr (1885–1895), and became professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Yale University in 1895.

He became secretary of the American Oriental Society and editor of the Journal of the American Oriental Society, to which he contributed many valuable papers, especially on numerical and temporal categories in early Sanskrit literature. He wrote:

  • Caste in Ancient India (1881)
  • Manu's Lawbook (1884)
  • Religions of India (1895)
  • The Great Epic of India (1901)
  • India Old and New (1901)
  • Epic Mythology (1915)
  • History of Religions (1918)
  • Origin and Evolution of Religion (1923)
  • The Ethics of India (1924)
  • References

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