Eleventh Generation (Continued)
Eleventh Generation (Continued)
Family of Archibald Emeneau (235) & Ada Helena Barnston
553. Murray Barnson Emeneau (Archibald10, Charles Joshua Emenau9, Anna Maria Catherina Silber8, Mary Regina Jung7, Johann Leonard6, Johannes5, Johann Andreas (Enners)4, Friedrich3, Friedrich2, Caspars1). Born on 28 Feb 1904 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada. Murray Barnson died in Berkeley, Alameda Co., California, U.S.A., on 29 Aug 2005; he was 101.
Murray Emeneau studied classical languages in high school. He attended Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he continued to study classical languages - Greek and Latin. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dalhousie in 1923 and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Balliol College at Oxford University. From Oxford Murray Emeneau returned to North America and in 1926 entered a graduate programme at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. At Yale he studied Sanskrit and Indo-European languages. He earned his Ph.D. in 1931 with his dissertation on Vetala Panchavimshati, which is a collection of Indian tales originally written in Sanskrit.
Following the receipt of his doctoral degree, Murray Emeneau remained at Yale to continue studying Sanskrit and related languages. In 1936 he went to India to conduct ground-breaking research on non-literary languages in the Dravidian family of languages. He remained in India for three years studying the Toda, Badaga, Kolami and Kota languages of the Nilgiri Hills region of Tamil Nadu.
In 1940 Murray Emeneau secured an appointment as an assistant professor in the Department of Classics at the University of California - Berkeley. At Berkeley he continued to his work on Dravidian languages, other Indian languages and Vietnamese. He retired from Berkeley in 1971 but remained active academically. He reveived honourary degrees from the University of Chicago (1968), Dalhousie University (1970), the University of Hyderabad (1987) and the Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University (1999). He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy He was also member or honourary member of several major academic or lingusitic societies.
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/murraybarnsonemeneau.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Barnson_Emeneau
Murray Emeneau studied classical languages in high school. He attended Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he continued to study classical languages - Greek and Latin. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dalhousie in 1923 and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Balliol College at Oxford University. From Oxford Murray Emeneau returned to North America and in 1926 entered a graduate programme at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. At Yale he studied Sanskrit and Indo-European languages. He earned his Ph.D. in 1931 with his dissertation on Vetala Panchavimshati, which is a collection of Indian tales originally written in Sanskrit.
Following the receipt of his doctoral degree, Murray Emeneau remained at Yale to continue studying Sanskrit and related languages. In 1936 he went to India to conduct ground-breaking research on non-literary languages in the Dravidian family of languages. He remained in India for three years studying the Toda, Badaga, Kolami and Kota languages of the Nilgiri Hills region of Tamil Nadu.
In 1940 Murray Emeneau secured an appointment as an assistant professor in the Department of Classics at the University of California - Berkeley. At Berkeley he continued to his work on Dravidian languages, other Indian languages and Vietnamese. He retired from Berkeley in 1971 but remained active academically. He reveived honourary degrees from the University of Chicago (1968), Dalhousie University (1970), the University of Hyderabad (1987) and the Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University (1999). He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy He was also member or honourary member of several major academic or lingusitic societies.
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/murraybarnsonemeneau.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Barnson_Emeneau
Murray Barnson married Katharine Fitch. Born on 15 Jul 1903. Katharine died in Berkeley, Alameda Co., California, U.S.A., in Jun 1987; she was 83.
They had no children.
554. Victor H. Emeneau (Archibald10, Charles Joshua Emenau9, Anna Maria Catherina Silber8, Mary Regina Jung7, Johann Leonard6, Johannes5, Johann Andreas (Enners)4, Friedrich3, Friedrich2, Caspars1). Born in May 1908 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.