BROWN, George William. Hartford co., Maryland 25.10.1870 — West Hartford, CT (?) 4.12.1932. U.S. Missionary and Indologist. Son of a farmer in Hartford co., Maryland. Studies at Hiram College in Ohio, A.B. 1897, M.A. 1898. In 1897-98 taught at Central Christian College in Albany, Missouri, 1898-1900 Superintendent od Public Schools in Princeton, Missouri. Missionary of Disciples of Christ in Central India in 1900–1917, with intervals at home (1908-10), where he presented his Ph.D. dissertation in Indology under M. Bloomfield at Johns Hopkins in 1910. Worked as Principal of Christian Bible College in Harda, in 1904 moved with the College to Jubbulpore (Jabalpur). After returning to home, he was Professor of Semitic Languages and Missions at College of the Bible, Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. In 1921 Dean of Faculty and Professor of Indology at College of Missions in Indianapolis and 1927-32 at Kentucky School of Missions. Married 1891 Virginia Clark Archer (née Clark, 1855–1954, widow of John Archer and mother of —> J. C. Archer), father of —> W. Norman Brown (1892–1975).
Brown was interested in NIA (he spoke Hindi) and Dravidian languages and in Indian religion, emphasizing the Dravidian element in Indian thought.
Publications: Diss. The Human Body in the Upanishads. Manuscript 1910, publ. 230 p. Jubbulpore 1921.
– “Prāṇa and Apāna”, JAOS 39, 1919, 104-112; “The Sources of Indian philosophical Ideas”, Bloomfield Volume 1920, 75-88; “The Possibility of a Connection between Mitanni and the Dravidian Language”, JAOS 50, 1930, 273-305.
Sources: Short note in JAOS 33, 1933, 369; Language 9, 1933, 100f.; They Went to India. Biographies of Missionaries. Indianapolis n.d., 44f. (digitalcommons.acu.edu); not in Who Was Who in Am., not in Am. Biogr. Arch. 1st & 2nd Series.
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