ARROWSMITH, Robert. Brooklyn, N.Y. 23.11.1860 — 1.6.1928. U.S. Linguist and Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Son of Milton John Arrowsmith and Phebe Wood Platt. Studies at Columbia University: A.B. 1882, A.M. 1883, Ph.D. 1884; University Fellow in 1882-83 and 1885-86. In 1884-85 further studies at Berlin University. Assistant in Modern Languages at Columbia University in 1883-85; Instructor of Latin and Sanskrit at Racine College (Wis.) 1886. Principal of Barnard School in St.Paul, Minn., 1887-90, and of Erasmus Hall Academy in Flatbush, Brooklyn., 1892-93. Professor of Greek and Latin at Columbia University Teachers’ College 1893-94. Editor, classical and modern languages, American Book Company, 1894-1913. Member of the Commission for Relief in Belgium 1915-18. Married 1895 Edith Elizabeth Walton (1873–1935), four children.

Publications: Latin school books.

– “The compounded verb in the Nala”, AJPh 6, 1885, 481 (statistics on the use of various preverbs).

– English translation of the Rigveda selection by Kaegi et al. as The Rigveda: The Oldest Literature of the Indians. 198 p. Boston 1886.

Sources: Who Was Who in America 1, 1897–1942.