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of English language and literature. In 1895, he was appointed public lecturer and also appointed to the newly founded professorship of Indo-Iranian languages at
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manuscripts in recognition of the instruction there given by him in their ancient texts. In 1903 he made a second journey to the Orient, this time visiting
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A. V. Williams Jackson was born, February 9, 1862, not far from the present site of Columbia University, and died at his home overlooking its gates ...
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A Catalogue of the Collection of Persian Manuscripts, Including Also Some Turkish and Arabic Presented by Alexander Smith Cochran
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Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian MSS. in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ (1913)
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in 1883. He was a fellow in letters there from 1883 to 1886, and an instructor in
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Haas, George C. O. (June 1938). "Bibliography of A. V. Williams Jackson".
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts Presented to the
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and the Iranian languages from 1887 to 1890. After studying at the
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Ed Perry (August 8, 1937). "Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson".
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Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson: biog and 4 source texts
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American specialist on Indo-Iranian languages (1862-1937)
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Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson

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Indo-European languages

Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla
Henry Clews
Djelal Munif Bey
Columbia University
New York City
Columbia University
Anglo-Saxon
University of Halle
adjunct professor
Columbia University
English literature
India
Ceylon
Parsees
Zoroastrian
Iran
Central Asia
Avestan
American Oriental Society
American Philosophical Society
Avesta, the Bible of Zoroaster
Metropolitan Museum of Art
A. S. Cochran

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