BARRETT, LeRoy Carr. Cape Girardeau, Missouri 11.3.1877 — Hartford, Conn. 16.7.1960. U.S. Classical Scholar and Indologist. Son of Thomas Carr Barrett (1841–1916) and Sophia Baptista Muschany. Studies at Washington and Lee (A.B. 1897) and Johns Hopkins (A.M. 1898, Ph.D. 1903), Bloomfield’s student. In 1903-07 Instructor of Latin at Johns Hopkins, 1907-09 Preceptor of Classics at Princeton, 1909-10 Instructor at Dartmouth College, and from 1910 Professor of Latin at the Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Editor of the Paippalādasamhitā. Married Nettie Wood Pratt (1877–1943).
Publications: “The Kashmirian Atharvaveda, Edited with critical Notes: Book I”, JAOS 26:2, 1906, 1-295; “Book II”, JAOS 30, 1909-10, 187-258; “Book III”, JAOS 32, 1912, 343-390; “Book IV”, JAOS 35, 1915-17, 42-101; “Book V”, JAOS 37, 1917, 257-308; [Book VI by Edgerton]; “Book VII”, iJAOS 40, 1920, 145-169; “Book VIII”, JAOS 41, 1921, 264-289; “Book IX”, JAOS 42, 1922, 105-146; “Book X”, JAOS 43, 1923, 95-115; “Book XI”, JAOS 44, 1924, 258-269; “Book XII”, JAOS 46, 1926, 34-48; “Book XIII”, JAOS 48, 1928, 34-65; “Book XIV”, JAOS 47, 1927, 238-249; “Book XV”, JAOS 50, 1930, 43-73; “Book XVIII”, JAOS 58, 1938, 571-614.
– The Kashmirian Atharvaveda, Books 16 and 17. Edited with critical Notes. 200 p. AOS 9. New Haven 1936; The Kashmirian Atharvaveda, Books 19 and 20. 153 p. AOS 18. New Haven 1940.
– Brief articles on Paippalāda questions: JAOS 41, 1921, 318f.; 46, 1926, 8-14; 50, 1930, 104-111; 54, 1934, 70-74; Bloomfield Vol. 1920, 1-18.
Sources: Dir. of American Scholars, 1st ed. 1942; parents and wife in ancestry.com.
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