BLOOMFIELD, MAURICE (1855-1928), American In dological and philological scholar, was born on Feb. 23, 1855, in Bielitz, Austria. He went to the United States in 1867, studied at the University of Chicago, Furman university, Greenville, S.C., Yale university and at Johns Hopkins, to which university he re turned as professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in 1881 after a stay of two years in Berlin and Leipzig. He is best known as a student of the Vedas. He translated, for Friedrich Max Miiller's Sacred Books of the East, the "Hymns of the Atharva Veda" (1897) ; contributed to the Biihler-Kielhorn Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie and Altertumskunde the section "The Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha Brahmana" (1899) ; was first to edit the Kaucika-Sutra (189o) ; published in conjunction with Prof. Richard von Garbe of the Tubingen university a chromo photographic reproduction of the Paippalada version of the Atharva-Veda (Baltimore, 1901) . In 1907 he published, in the Harvard oriental series, A Vedic Concordance; in 1905 Cerberus, The Dog of Hades, a study in comparative mythology ; in 1908 The Religion of the Vedas; in 1916 Rig-Vida Repetitions; in 1919 The Life and Stories of the Jaina Savior Pdrcvandtha. The bulk of his work as an investigator is laid down in numerous articles on Indic and linguistic and ethnological subjects printed in the learned journals of America and Europe. He died in San Fran cisco, Calif., June 12, 1928.
See the complete bibliography at the end of the foreword to Studies in Honor of Maurice Bloomfield, by a group of his pupils (New Haven, 192o) .