[INDOLOGY] Question

[Jonathan Silk]

Maurice was the uncle of Leonard.
Sigmund was Leonards father and Maurice’s brother.

I’m sure others know more

Jonathan

On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 8:53 PM Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Many years ago, I inherited a copy of the Vedic Concordance by Maurice
> Bloomfield from a retiring colleague of mine at Michigan. In his
> handwriting, Maurice Bloomfield gifted this book to his brother Sigmund
> Bloomfield, but the copy came to my colleague from the library of Leonard
> Bloomfield. Was Sigmund the third brother?
>
> Madhav M. Deshpande
> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
> Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India
>
> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
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