Author:Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson

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Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson
(1862–1937)

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American specialist on Indo-Iranian languages

This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "A. V. W. J."

Works

A Hymn of Zoroaster (1888)
The Avestan alphabet and its transcription (1890)
An Avesta Grammar in Comparison with Sanskrit (1892)
An Avesta Reader (1893)
Avesta, the Bible of Zoroaster (1893)
Zoroaster, the Prophet of Ancient Iran (1898) IA
Die iranische Religion (1900)
Persia Past and Present (1906) IA
History of India (1906)
"The Literature of India and Persia" in Columbia University Lectures on Literature (1911) (transcription project)
From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam (1911) (transcription project)
A Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts Presented to the Metropolitan Museum (1914), with A. Yohannan IA
Early Persian Poetry (1920) IA
"West, Edward William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
Zoroastrian Studies (1928) (HathiTrust)

Works about Jackson

"Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
"Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1937, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 86 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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