Augustus Henry Keane
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| Born | 1833 | ||||||||
| Died | 1912 | ||||||||
| Residence |
West Kensington Park [1879] 19 Westwick Gardens, Kensington Park, W. [1881] 3 Camden Street, Oakley Square, N.W. [1885] 79 Broadhurst Gardens, South Hampstead, NW [1894] | ||||||||
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academic linguist journalist | ||||||||
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Contents
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Office Notes
AI Council 1880 Member
AI Council 1881 Member
AI Council 1882 Member
AI Council 1883 Member
AI Council 1884 Member
AI Council 1885 Member
AI Council 1886 Vice President
AI Council 1887 Vice President
AI Council 1888 Vice President
AI Council 1889 Vice President
AI Council 1890 Member
House Notes
proposed 1879.01.21
recommended by W.L. Distant, F.G. Hilton Price, W.N. Flower, 28 Jan. 1879 [A31]
Corresponding member of the Italian Society of Anthropology
Professor of Hindustani, University College, London [1885]
death noted in the report of the council for 1912: Dr. A. H. Keane died in February at the age of 79: for 33 years he had been a Fellow of the Institute and his eminent services to Anthropology, which he made his lifelong study, are well known to all members of this Society. An obituary notice has appeared in Man,1 912, 28.
Notes From Elsewhere
Augustus Henry Keane (1833–1912) was an Irish Roman Catholic journalist and linguist, known for his ethnological writings.
Born Cork; died London.
Brought up for priesthood but declined to enter it. Professor of Hindustani, University College London. Honorary degree from St Andrews. Numerous anthropological publications, mainly on language and linguistics. In Who was who he describes his career as ‘uneventful’ and his education as having taken place in Jersey, Italy, Dublin and Hanover.
Publications
External Publications
· Handbook of the History of the English Language (1875)· [16]
· Ethnology of the Egyptian Sudan (1884)
· Codex Fejrvry-Mayer: An Old Mexican Picture Manuscript in the Liverpool Free Public Museums (12014/M) with · Joseph Florimond Loubat
· The Early Chartered Companies (A.D. 1296-1858) (1896, 2002 reprint), with · George Cawston· [17]
· Man, Past and Present; this work has been called "overtly racist", and a later edition by · A. C. Haddon removed some of the extreme statements.· [18]· [19]· [20]· [21]· [22]· [23]· [24]· [25]
· Ethnology. In Two Parts: I. Fundamental Ethnical Problems. II. The Primary Ethnical Groups (1896)· [26]· [27]· [28]· [29]· [30]· [31]· [32]· [33]· [34]
· · Asia: Northern and Eastern Asia, vol. 1; Asia: Southern and Western Asia, vol. 2 (1896)· [35]
· The Boer States: land and people (1900)
· The Gold of Ophir - Whence Brought and by Whom? (1901)· [36]
· The World's Peoples: A popular account of their bodily and mental characters· [37]
Translations
· Ancient Peruvian art: contributions to the archaeology of the empire of the Incas, translator, original by Arthur Baessler· [38]
· Philosophy Historical and Critical (1879), translator, original by André Lefèvre· [39]
· The Science of Language. Linguistics, Philology, Etymology, translator, original by · Abel Hovelacque
· The Antichrist Legend; a chapter in Christian and Jewish folklore, translator, original by · Wilhelm Bousset
· The Early Teutonic, Italian and French Masters (reprinted 2004), translator from the work of · Robert Dohme· [40]
· The Chittagong Hill Tribes: results of a journey made in the year 1882 (1885), translator, original by · Emil Riebeck
· Travels in Africa during the years 1882-1886, translator, original by · Wilhelm Junker
· The Childhood of Man, translator, original by · Leo Frobenius
· Diego Velazquez and His Times, translator, original by · Carl Justi.
