Louis Herbert Gray
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Louis Herbert Gray, Ph.D. (1875–1955) was an American Orientalist, born at Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University in 1896 and from Columbia University (Ph.D., 1900).
Gray served as American collaborator on the Orientalische Bibliographie in 1900-1906; revised translations for The Jewish Encyclopedia in 1904-1905; was associate editor of the Hastings Encyclopœdia of Religion and Ethics (Edinburgh, 1905-15); editor of Mythology of all Races (1915-18); translated Subandhu's Vasavadatta (1913); and afterwards (1921) served as professor at the University of Nebraska. He was one of the American commissioners to negotiate peace in Paris (1918) and attaché to the American embassy.
Gray published:
- Indo-Iranian Phonology (1902)
- The Hundred Songs of Kamal ad-Din of Isfahan, co-written with Ethel Watts Mumford (1904)
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