ALBRIGHT, Ruth Norton (née Ruth Norton)

ALBRIGHT, Ruth Norton (née Ruth Norton). Elizabeth, Union County NJ 1.6.1892 — Baltimore 1.10.1979. U.S. Indologist. Daughter of Paul Thornley Norton and Caroline Bain. Student of Bloomfield at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Ph.D. 1921 Johns Hopkins. Right after Ph.D., in 1921, she married her fellow-student, the soon well-known Semitic scholar…

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ABBOTT, Justin E.

ABBOTT, Justin Edwards. Portsmouth, NH 25.12.1853 — Summit, NJ 19.6. or 16.9.1932. Rev. U.S. Presbyterian Missionary and Indologist (Marathi Scholar). B.A. Son of missionary parents, Rev. Amos Abbott and Anstice Wilson, he came with them in 1857 to Rahuri (Ahmednagar dt.) and grew up in Maharashtra. Studies in the U.S.A.,…

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