BODE, Mabel Kate Haynes (née Haynes). 28.10.1864 — Shaftesbury, Dorset 20.1.1922. British Indologist (Pāli scholar). Daughter of Robert William Haynes (1828–1879), a lawyer and law publisher, and his wife Emily (1833–1870). After parents’ death lived with an aunt, Janet Mary Haynes. Educated at Notting Hill High School for Girls in…
BODDING, Paul Olaf. Gjøvik, Oppland 2.11.1865 — Odense, Denmark 25.9.1938. Rev. Norwegian Missionary and Munda Scholar in India, lived long time among the Santals. Son of a bookseller, Edvard Olsen Bodding (1825–1905), and Betzy Emilie Wennevold (1838–1889). After meeting —> L. O. Skrefsrud in his father’s shop he decided to…
BOCHINGER, Jean-Jacques (Johann Jacob B.). Strasbourg 28.11.1802 — Strasbourg 12.8.1831. French (Alsatian) Protestant Theologian. Of humble origin, son of Jean Bochinger (1758–1807), a weaver, and Christine Madeleine Lutz (1778–1833). Studies at Protestant Seminary and Theological Faculty of Strasbourg, then at Heidelberg and Göttingen. For a while, 1824-26, private tutor in…
BOBRINSKOY, George Vladimir (Russian Grigorij/Georgij Vladimirovič Bobrinskoj). Tula, Russia 23.1.1901 — Greenfield, Franklin, Mass. 15/17.11.1985. U.S. (Russian born) Indologist. Professor in Chicago. Born in Russia as the son of Count Vladimir Alekseevič Bobrinskoj (1868–1927) and Maria Matveevna Nikonova (1882–1956). In the Russian civil war fought in the army of Denikin,…
BOAKE, William John Slade. Colombo 1844 — London 2.6.1889. British (Irish) Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Dr. Barcroft Boake of Dublin (1814–1876), Principal of Colombo Academy in 1842-70, and Mary Katherine Slade (d. 1860). Obtained Lic. Med. of Trinity College, Dublin, and Diploma of Medicine and Surgery,…
BLUNT, James Tillyer. 1765/67 (bapt. All Saints, Fulham, Middlesex 26.5.1767) — 20.10.1834 (buried in Exeter). British Colonial Officer in India, visited and described Delhi. Son of Richard Tillyer Blunt (1743?–1822), a goldsmith. Educated at Merchant Taylors School, cadet 1782, arrived in Bengal 1783. Served in Bengal Engineers as ensign, assisted…
BLUMHARDT, James Fuller. Bengal 1844? — Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire 10.12.1922. British Indologist (NIA Scholar). M.A. First in I.C.S. in Bengal, then served long time in British Museum in the Dept. of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books. Also Lecturer in Bengali at Cambridge in 1883-88 (1883-84 also in Marathi), then at…
BLOOMFIELD, Maurice (born Moritz Blumenfeld). Bielitz, Austrian Silesia (now Bielsko-Biała in Poland) 23.2.1855 — San Francisco, CA 13.6.1928. U.S. (of German Jewish Origin) Indologist. Professor in Baltimore. Born in the then Austrian Silesia as the son of Solomon Blumenfeld (then Bloomfield) and Beatha Jaeger he moved in the age of…
BLOOMFIELD, Leonard. Chicago 1.4.1887 — New Haven CT 18.4.1949. U.S. Linguist. Professor in Columbus, Chicago, and New Haven. Son of Sigmund Bloomfield (born Blumenfeld, 1853–1918) and Carola Buber, a Jewish family of German background, nephew of —> Maurice Bloomfield (1855–1928). Elementary school in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, where his father had…
BLONAY, Godefroy Jean Henry Louis de, baron. Niederschoenthal, Füllingsdorf (Basel-Land) 25.7.1869 — Biskra, Algeria 14.2.1937. Swiss Indologist. Born in his father’s (baron Gustave Louis de Blonay, 1830–1900) castle, Château de Grandson, in an old Vaudian family, whose ancestor had founded the castle of Blonay in Vaud in c. 1175, his…