Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr.

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Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Sr. (1916-17 July 1999) was the Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University. Born and raised in New York City, Ingalls received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard before serving as an officer in the US Army in World War II. After the war, Ingalls returned to Harvard as Wales Professor of Sanskrit. He was particularly known for his translation and commentary in An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry, which contains some 1,700 Sanskrit verses collected by a Buddhist abbot, Vidyakara, in Bengal around A.D. 1050. Ingalls was the teacher of many famous students of Sanskrit and was known for rigor of his introductory Sanskrit course.

Ingalls was the father of the computer scientist Dan Ingalls.

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• Obituary notice in the Harvard Gazette