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Noun Named Entity
Categories: American lexicographers, American Sanskrit scholars, Members of the American Antiquarian Society, University of Tübingen alumni, 1827 births
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William Dwight Whitney  Dwight Whitney  W. D. Whitney  William D. Whitney
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William Dwight Whitney was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution. Wikipedia
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William Dwight Whitney was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution. Wikipedia
American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer who edited The Century Dictionary Wikipedia Disambiguation
American orientalist, linguist and lexicographer Wikidata
IS A
homo
ARCHIVES AT
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
CHILD
Edward Baldwin Whitney
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Nordisk familjebok
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Obalky knih.cz
EDUCATED AT
University of Tübingen
Humboldt University of Berlin
Williams College
EMPLOYER
Yale University
FAMILY NAME
Whitney
FIELD OF WORK
linguistics
linguistics
GIVEN NAME
William
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
National Academy of Sciences
American Antiquarian Society
Russian Academy of Sciences
American Oriental Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
+4 relations
OCCUPATION
writer
librarian
professeur des universités
linguist
translator
+1 relations
PLACE OF BIRTH
Northampton
PLACE OF DEATH
New Haven
RELATIVE
Hassler Whitney
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Josiah Whitney
STUDENT
Charles Rockwell Lanman
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
Wikipedia
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William Dwight Whitney
Wikidata
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William Dwight Whitney
Wikipedia Redirections
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Dwight Whitney, W. D. Whitney, William D. Whitney
Wikidata Alias
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W. D. Whitney

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