QUACKENBOS, George Payn. New York 24.4.1879 — Tuckahoe, Westchester, NY 15.11.1947. U.S. Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Son of John Duncan Quackenbos (1848–1926), a Professor of English Literature at Columbia University, and Laura Amelia Pinckney (1852–1909). Studies at Columbia University, New York (A.B. 1902, A.M.). In 1910 Instructor in Latin at New York City College where he was then Professor until his death. Ph.D. 1915 Columbia. Married 1915 Marjorie Cordingley (1888–1962), one daughter and one son.
N.B. His grandfather was the elder G.P.Q. (1826–1881), LL.D., a New Yorker who wrote a number of textbooks of English, history, etc.
Publications: “Classical allusions to the pearl-fisheries of the Persian Gulf”, Spiegel Mem. Vol. Bombay 1908, 251-255.
– Edited & translated: “The Mayūrāṣṭaka, an unedited Sanskrit poem by Mayūra”, JAOS 31, 1911, 343-354.
– Diss. publ. as Mayūra. The Sanskrit poems. Edited with translation, notes and introduction, together with the text in transliteration and translation of Bāṇa’s Caṇḍīśataka. 22+362 p. Indo-Iranian Series 9. N.Y. 1917.
Sources: Stray notes in Internet; ancestry.co.uk knows parents, exact life dates and children, but not wife; short obituary in The New York Times 16.11.1947 (nytimes.com).
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