Louis Herbert Gray, Ph.D. (1875–1955) was an American

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 Orientalist

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, born at Newark, New Jersey

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. He graduated from Princeton University

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 in 1896 and from Columbia University

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 (Ph.D., 1900).

Gray contributed to the annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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, with contributions on such topics as the Avestan texts. He served as American collaborator on the Orientalische Bibliographie in 1900-1906; revised translations for The Jewish Encyclopedia

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in 1904-1905; was associate editor of the Hastings Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics (Edinburgh

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, 1905-15); editor of Mythology of all Races (1915-18); translated Subandhu's

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 Vasavadatta (1913); and afterwards (1921) served as professor at the University of Nebraska.

He was one of the American commissioners to negotiate peace in Paris

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 (1918) and attaché

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to the American embassy.

Gray published:

• Indo-Iranian Phonology (1902)
• The Hundred Songs of Kamal ad-Din of Isfahan