# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-dwight-whitney
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:24.528Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/william-dwight-whitney"
name: "William Dwight Whitney"
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description: "William Dwight Whitney was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution. He was the first president of the American Philological Association and editor-in-chief of The Century Dictionary."
tagline: "American orientalist, linguist and lexicographer (1827–1894)"
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birthDate: "1827-02-09"
deathDate: "1894-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump