Charles Rockwell Lanman: Quick Facts

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Born	July 8, 1850 • Norwich • Connecticut
Died	February 20, 1941 (aged 90) • Boston • Massachusetts
Notable Works	“Sanskrit Reader”
Subjects Of Study	Sanskrit language

Theodor Benfey

German scholar

James Owen Dorsey

American ethnologist

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

Sir William Jones

British orientalist and jurist

Gudbrandur Vigfússon

Icelandic linguist

Kuno Meyer

German scholar

Mary Louise Booth

American journalist

Alfred M. Tozzer

American anthropologist

Nina Berberova

Russian-American writer

Louis Zukofsky

American poet

Robert Pinsky

American poet and critic

Carolyn Forché

American poet

Samuel Putnam

American editor and author

Dudley Fitts

American teacher, critic, poet and translator

Winthrop Sargeant

American music critic

Donald Justice

American poet and editor

William Dwight Whitney

American linguist

Charles Eliot Norton

American scholar

Alexander Pope

English author

Eugenio Montale

Italian author