[INDOLOGY] On Sanskrit in the USA

Fri Jun 1 18:50:16 UTC 2018

I may be getting a little off topic here, but perhaps the first female to study Sanskrit in the US did so at Yale, or at least under Whitney, perhaps privately. (Did Yale accept women at this time?) The woman’s name is Caroline Fitzgerald. She studied under Whitney in 1884-85, thereabouts, at the age of 19-20, and she was a Corporate Member of the American Oriental Society in 1886. She also corresponded with Lanman. There may be more about her in the AOS Library at Yale. Edward Burne-Jones painted a portrait of her, now in the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto.

Bob Hueckstedt

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Note here the very useful on-line tool offered by Klaus Karttunen:

http://whowaswho-indology.info

So for Salisbury:
http://whowaswho-indology.info/5599/salisbury-edward-elbridge/

A near contemporary of Salisbury, also expert both in Arabic (that he studied with two disciples of de Sacy) and Sanskrit (learned in Bonn with Lassen), was the Swiss (from Geneva) Charles Rieu (1820-1902), who became Professor of Arabic in Cambridge.
http://whowaswho-indology.info/5212/rieu-charles-pierre-henri/
(his obituary in JRAS 1902 is available here:     https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0035869X00029737 )

Le 31 mai 2018 à 16:38, Herman Tull via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> a écrit :

For those interested, Salisbury, who founded Sanskrit studies at Yale, was recently "rediscovered,", and there is some fascinating information about his program of "Oriental Studies" at Yale.

https://salisbury175.yale.edu/news/yale-marks-175th-anniversary-arabic-and-islamic-studies-exhibit-public-events

Among the many interesting tidbits was that Salisbury, by his own admission, was not much of a Sanskritist (or, much of a teacher), and had only two Sanskrit students (none in Arabic, which he seems to have known). One of his two students was W. D. Whitney. Whitney, went on to study in Germany, and then was appointed at Yale through Salisbury's generosity. Salisbury, who died around 1900, is said to have left an endowment valued at $130,000 in 19th c. dollars. Assuming it was all in cash (and it likely was not), that would today be an endowment of $3.5 million (US). Certainly enough to maintain Sanskrit at Yale!

Herman Tull
Princeton, NJ

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:53 PM Christophe Vielle via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/04/17/yales-last-sanskrit-expert-to-leave/

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