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A c. 1815 illustration of the Ninth Street campus of the University of Pennsylvania, including the medical department (on left) and the college building (on right). In 1802, the university moved to the unused Presidential Mansion at Ninth and Market Streets, a building that both George Washington and John Adams had declined to occupy while Philadelphia was the nation's capital.
The history of the manuscripts has been narrated in many publications, and can be summarized thus: "Some of the manuscripts had been acquired in chance fashion by the Library and the University Museum before 1930, but in that year, at the request of Professor W. Norman Brown (1892–1975), Provost Josiah Penniman provided a sum of money to ...
Van Buitenen studied with Jan Gonda at the Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht, Netherlands (since 1990 Universiteit Utrecht).He received his doctorate, cum laude, on 23 October 1953 and immediately departed for India where he stayed until 1956 as sub-editor of the " Dictionary of Sanskrit on Historical Principles" project at Deccan College, Poona . [3]
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn [note 3] or UPenn [note 4]) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained ...
University of Pennsylvania: 7: The Reverend John Andrews: 1746–1813: 1810–1813: University of Pennsylvania: 8: The Reverend Frederick Beasley: 1777–1845: 1813–1828: University of Pennsylvania: 9: The Right Reverend William Heathcote DeLancey: 1797–1865: 1828–1834: University of Pennsylvania: 10: The Reverend John Ludlow: 1793–1857 ...
Articles and categories related to the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The main article for this category is University of Pennsylvania . Contents
Alfred John Hiltebeitel (April 10, 1942 [1] - March 12, 2023 [2]) was Columbian Professor of Religion, History, and Human Sciences at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., US. His academic specialism was in ancient Sanskrit epics such as the Mahabharata and Ramayana , together with Indian religious tradition and folklore.
The history of the manuscripts has been narrated in many of these publications, and can be summarized thus: "Some of the manuscripts had been acquired in chance fashion by the Library and the University Museum before 1930, but in that year, at the request of Professor W. Norman Brown (1892-1975), Provost Josiah Penniman provided a sum of money ...