William Dwight Whitney (February 9, 1827 – June 7, 1894) was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar...
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Josiah Dwight Whitney (November 23, 1819 – August 18, 1896) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief...
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Dwight Whitney Marsh (November 5, 1823 – June 18, 1896) was an American missionary and historian. He was the author of an 1869 book titled The Tennessean...
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Whitney III (born 1949) William Collins Whitney (1841–1904) William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894) Willis Rodney Whitney (1868–1958) Elise Marie Whitney (Heiress...
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wood-engraved illustrations. It was edited by Sanskrit scholar and linguist William Dwight Whitney, with Benjamin Eli Smith's assistance. In 1895 a 10-volume edition...
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politician, financier, founder of the prominent Whitney family, US Secretary of the Navy William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894), American linguist, philologist...
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salutatorian. Starting in 1859, he began studying Sanskrit with William Dwight Whitney, which ultimately lead to him earning a PhD in classics at Yale...
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Ibn Battuta. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24385-4. William Dwight Whitney; Benjamin Eli Smith (1911). The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia:...
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Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus Digital Library William Dwight Whitney, The Century dictionary; an encyclopedic lexicon of the English...
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born August 16, 1857. His father was linguist William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894) of the New England Dwight family. His mother was Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin...
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