Asâmy Makâtib El Bôsta Fy Masr Bil Lisân El Masry...

by Daniel Willard Fiske

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66 pages, Paperback

Published August 2, 2018

About the author

Daniel Willard Fiske was an American librarian and scholar.

Fiske studied at Cazenovia Seminary and started his collegiate studies at Hamilton College in 1847. He joined the Psi Upsilon but was suspended for a student prank at the end of his sophomore year. He was educated at Copenhagen and at Uppsala University. Upon his return to the United States, he acted as a General Secretary to the American Geographical Society and edited the Syracuse Daily Journal.

Upon the opening of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Fiske was named university librarian and professor in 1868. He made a reputation as an authority on the Northern European languages, and Icelandic language and culture in particular.