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Ex Oriente Lux et Veritas

Karen Polinger Foster
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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.        
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Karen Polinger Foster EAN: 9780692824276 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 205 g HEIGHT: 226 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Yale Babylonian Collection DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-03-31 CITY: GENRE: EDUCATION / History, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Ancient Languages WIDTH: 150 cm SPINE:

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      Middle East, Sanskrit, Arabic, History of education, Educational psychology, Middle Eastern history, Social and cultural history

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      Karen Polinger Foster is Lecturer of Near Eastern Language and Civilizations, and History of Art at Yale        
      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.        
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Karen Polinger Foster EAN: 9780692824276 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 205 g HEIGHT: 226 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Yale Babylonian Collection DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-03-31 CITY: GENRE: EDUCATION / History, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Ancient Languages WIDTH: 150 cm SPINE:

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      Middle East, Sanskrit, Arabic, History of education, Educational psychology, Middle Eastern history, Social and cultural history

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      Karen Polinger Foster is Lecturer of Near Eastern Language and Civilizations, and History of Art at Yale        

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