Charles Rockwell Lanman

Charles Rockwell Lanman (born July 8, 1850, Norwich, Conn., U.S.—died Feb. 20, 1941, Boston, Mass.) was an American scholar of Sanskrit who wrote the widely used Sanskrit Reader (1884) and helped edit the “Harvard Oriental Series,” which offered scholarly English translations of the ancient Hindu Vedic texts. He received his doctorate from Yale University, where he studied Sanskrit under William Dwight Whitney. After further study in Germany, Lanman was appointed to Johns Hopkins University (1876)...