Murray Barnson Emeneau was born in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on February 28, 1904. He received bachelors degrees from Dalhousie, (1923) and Oxford (1926) Universities, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1931. He was a research scholar and lecturer at Yale before undertaking extensive field work in South and Central India. (1936-1938), where he specialized in non-Dravidian languages. He was a founding member of the Department of Linguistics at U.C. Berkeley, where he served as professor of Sanskrit and linguistics from 1940-1971. Emeneau published more than 20 books and 200 articles and reviews. He died in Berkeley on August 29, 2005.
From the description of M.B. Emeneau papers, circa 1935-2000. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 84653483
