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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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Homo sapiens
ARCHIVES AT
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Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
CHILD
Edward Baldwin Whitney
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
ꠀꠝꠦꠞꠤꠇꠣ
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Nordisk Familjebok
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Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Obalky knih.cz
EDUCATED AT
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University of Tübingen
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Humboldt University of Berlin
Williams College
EMPLOYER
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Yale University
FAMILY NAME
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Whitney
FIELD OF WORK
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linguistics
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linguistics
GIVEN NAME
William
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
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English
MEMBER OF
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National Academy of Sciences
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American Antiquarian Society
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Russian Academy of Sciences
American Oriental Society
American Academy Of Arts And Sciences
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OCCUPATION
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writer
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librarian
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professeur des universités
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linguist
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translator
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PLACE OF BIRTH
Northampton
PLACE OF DEATH
New haven
RELATIVE
Hassler Whitney
SEX OR GENDER
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male
SIBLING
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Josiah Whitney
STUDENT
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Charles Rockwell Lanman
WRITING LANGUAGE
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English

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