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]

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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."

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

Works

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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

• “American Indians” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1881). (in part)
• “Tibbus” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).
• “Tierra del Fuego” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).
• “Transvaal” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).
• “Yoruba” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).

Contributions to EB1911

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

As Translator

• 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

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

References

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