Ex Oriente Lux et Veritas : Yale, Salisbury and Early Orientalism Paperback / softback
Edited by Karen Polinger Foster
Part of the Yale Babylonian Collection Occasional Papers series
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The essays in this book place Salisbury in the context of 19th-century Orientalism, with particular attention to the interconnected growth of Assyriology in Northern Europe and the U.S.
Hitherto unheralded, Salisbury emerges as a founding figure in the development of ancient Near Eastern, Arabic, and Sanskrit studies, as well as in the rise of the American liberal arts university. Edward Elbridge Salisbury (1814-1901) graduated from Yale University in 1832 and was appointed Professor of Arabic and Sanskrit there in 1841.
His remained the only University Chair of Sanskrit in America till 1854, when a separate 'Professorship of Sanskrit and kindred languages' was created, also at Yale.
Salisbury also served as the President of the American Oriental Society, and was elected as a member of the Asiatic Society of Paris, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences and a corresponding member of the German Oriental Society. This book presents expanded versions of the papers delivered at a symposium held during the 175th anniversary celebration of Yale's 1841 appointment of Edward Elbridge Salisbury as America's first Professor of Arabic and Sanskrit.
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- Pages:90 pages
- Publisher:Yale Babylonian Collection
- Publication Date:19/07/2017
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- ISBN:9780692824276
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:90 pages
- Publisher:Yale Babylonian Collection
- Publication Date:19/07/2017
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- ISBN:9780692824276