Saturday, December 25, 2010

A V Williams Jackson

A V Williams Jackson

Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, L.H.D., Ph.D., LL.D. (February 9, 1862 August 8, 1937) was an American specialist on Indo-Iranian languages, born in New York City. He graduated from Columbia in 1883 and taught at Columbia University from 1895 to 1935. His grammar of Avestan, the language used in the Zoroastrian scriptures, is still considered to be the seminal work on the topic. He traveled in India, Persia, and Central Asia between 1901 and 1918.



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