HOPKINS

hopkins, edward washburn (1857- ), american sanskrit scholar, was born in northampton, massachusetts, on the 8th of september 1857. he graduated at columbia university in 1878, studied at leipzig, where he received the degree of ph.d. in 1881, was an instructor at columbia in 1881-1885, and professor at bryn mawr in 1885-1895, and became professor of sanskrit and comparative philology in yale university in 1895. he became secretary of the american oriental society and editor of its _journal_, to which he contributed many valuable papers, especially on numerical and temporal categories in early sanskrit literature. he wrote _caste in ancient india_ (1881); _manu's lawbook_ (1884); _religions of india_ (1895); _the great epic of india_ (1901); and _india old and new_ (1901).