Author:Augustus Henry Keane

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Augustus Henry Keane
(1833–1912)

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Irish journalist and linguist. F.R.G.S. Professor of Hindustani at University College, London. ^[1]

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB9 by the initials "A. H. K."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "A. H. K."

Works[edit]

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Handbook of the History of the English Language (1878) external link
"Ethnography and Philology of America" (1878) with Alphabetal List of All Known American Tribes and Languages, appendices to H.W. Bates's Central America, West Indies, and South Africa external link
Asia, with Ethnological Appendix (1882) external link
Ethnology of Egyptian Sudan (1884) external link
Ethnology. Cambridge : University Press (1896) external link
Man Past and Present (1899) external link
The Boer States: Land and People (1900) external link
The Gold of Ophir (1901) external link
Central and South America (1901) vol 1, vol 2
The World's Peoples (1908) external link
The Early Chartered Companies (A.D. 1296–1858) (with G. Cawston; 1896) external link

Contributions to EB9[edit]

"American Indians," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (12) (1881) (in part)
"Tibbus," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)
"Tierra del Fuego," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)
"Transvaal," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)
"Yoruba," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (24) (1888)

Contributions to EB1911[edit]

"Tripoli (North Africa)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Ural-Altaic," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

As Translator[edit]

The science of language; linguistics, philology, etymology by Abel Hovelacque, 1843-1896, (1877) external link
Diego Velazquez and his times by Carl Justi, 1832-1912, (1889) external link
Travels in Africa during the years 1875[-1886] by Wilhelm Junker, 1840-1892, (1890) vol 1, vol 2, vol 3
History of the English Parliament by Rudolph Gneist, 1816-1895; (1895) external link
The childhood of man by Leo Frobenius, 1873-1938, (1909) external link

Works about Keane[edit]

Review of Keane 1896 (2nd revised edition): in The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 1, issue 670 (April, 1897), p. 171/2

References[edit]

↑ "KEANE, Augustus Henry ". Who's Who,. vol. 59: p. 961. 1907.

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1928, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

[1] "KEANE, Augustus Henry ". Who's Who,. vol. 59: p. 961. 1907.

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