Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937

found: Oriental studies in honour of Cursetji Pavry, 1933:title page (edited by Jal Dastur Cursetji Pavry, with a foreword by A.V. Williams Jackson)

found: Wikipedia, 22 March 2017(A. V. Williams Jackson; Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, L.H.D., Ph. D., LL.D. (February 9, 1862--August 8, 1937) was an American specialist on Indo-European languages; he was born and died in New York City; he graduated from Columbia University in 1883; he was a fellow in letters there from 1883 to 1886, and an instructor in Anglo-Saxon and the Iranian languages from 1887 to 1890; after study at the University of Halle from 1887 to 1889 he became an adjunct professor of English language and literature; in 1895, he was appointed public lecturer and also appointed to the newly founded professorship of Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia University, where he remained until 1935; he was well known as a lecturer on English literature and the Orient; his grammar of Avestan, the language used in the Zoroastrian scriptures, is still considered to be the seminal work on the topic; he was one of the directors of the American Oriental Society)