PRINCE, John Dyneley. New York 17.4.1868 — New York 10.10.1945. U.S. Assyriologist, Slavist and Gipsy Scholar. Professor in New York. Son of the elder John Dyneley Prince (1843–1883) and Anna Maria Morris (1847–1904, as widow married physician A. L. Loomis). Educated at Columbia Grammar School. A.B. 1888 Columbia University. In 1888-89 participated in the University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia, in 1889-90 further studies of Semitic languages in Berlin. Ph.D. 1892 Johns Hopkins University. In 1892-1902 Professor of Semitic Languages at New York University, then 1902-15 the same at Columbia University. In 1915-21 and 1933-35 Professor of Slavonic Languages and 1935-37 Professor of Eastern European Languages at Columbia University. In 1921-26 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Denmark, in 1926-33 in Yugoslavia. Married 1889 his step-sister Adeline E. Loomis, one son.
In addition to the original Assyriology and later Slavics, his many-sided linguistic interests included Gipsy and Amerindian languages.
Publications: Wrote on Assyriology, Slavics, etc.
– “The English-Rommany Jargon of the American Roads”, JAOS 28, 1907, 271-308; “The Gypsy Language of Denmark”, JAOS 45, 1925, 97-105; “A Brazilian Gypsey Dialect”, JAOS 50, 1930, 139-143.
– Fragments from Babel. 1939 (memoirs).
Sources: B. Pares, Slavonic and East European Review 25, 1946, 243-246; Dir. Am. Sch. 1st ed. 1942; Who Was Who in America 2; Wikipedia with photo.
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