Person:William Whitney (31)

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William Dwight Whitney
b.9 Feb 1827 Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
d.1894
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Josiah Dwight Whitney1819 - 1896
  2. William Dwight Whitney1827 - 1894
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  1. Edward Baldwin Whitney1857 - 1911
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Name William Dwight Whitney
Gender Male
Birth[1] 9 Feb 1827 Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage to Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin
Death[1] 1894
Reference Number? Q573847?


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William Dwight Whitney (February 9, 1827June 7, 1894) was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution. He was the first president of the American Philological Association and editor-in-chief of The Century Dictionary.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 William Dwight Whitney, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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