Buck, Carl Darling (1866-1955)

US classical philologist. From 1892 he taught Sanskrit and comparative philology at the University of Chicago (as professor from 1900), where Leonard Bloomfield was among his students.

He was born in Orland, Maine, and educated at Yale, and at Leipzig under Karl Brugmann (1849-1919) and August Leskien (1840-1916). His most important works, still standard, are A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian 1904, Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin 1933, Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the principal Indo-European languages 1949, and The Greek Dialects 1955.