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 contributed to the annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , with contributions on such topics as the Avestan texts. ^[1] He 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 Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics ( Edinburgh , 1905?15); editor of Mythology of all Races (1915?18); translated Subandhu 's Vasavadatta (1913); ^[2] and afterwards (1921) served as professor at the University of Nebraska . His 1902 work Indo-Iranian Phonology was published as the second volume of the 13 volume Columbia University Indo-Iranian Series , published by the Columbia University Press , in between 1901?32 and edited by A. V. Williams Jackson . ^[3]

He was one of the American commissioners to negotiate peace in Paris (1918) and attache to the American embassy .

Works [ edit ]

• Louis Herbert Gray (1902). Indo-Iranian Phonology: With Special Reference to the Middle and New Indo-Iranian Languages . New York: Columbia University Press.
• Gray, Louis H. & Mumford, Ethel Watts (1904). The Hundred Songs of Kamal ad-Din of Isfahan . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• Gray, Louis H. (1939). Foundations of Language . New York: Macmillan.

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Media related to Louis Herbert Gray at Wikimedia Commons

• "Louis H. Gray" Works by Louis Herbert Gray at JSTOR
• Vasavadatta, a Sanskrit romance by Subandhu at the Internet Archive

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