Maurice Bloomfield

He was born Maurice Blumenfeld in Bielitz (Polish: Bielsko), in what was at that time Austrian Silesia[1] (today it is in Poland) to Jewish parents.

[2][3] He went to the United States in 1867, and 10 years later graduated from Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina.

He was part of the second graduating class to earn the PhD from Johns Hopkins; his degree was conferred in 1879.

He was forced by ill health to retire in 1926 and was named Professor Emeritus in honor of his 45 years on the Hopkins faculty.

He translated, for Max Müller's Sacred Books of the East, the Hymns of the Atharva-Veda (1897); contributed to the Buhler-Kielhorn Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde the section The Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha Brahmana (1899); was first to edit the Kausika-Sutra (1890), and in 1907 published, in the Harvard Oriental Series, A Vedic Concordance.