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  • BAADER, Theodor

    BAADER, Theodor Ludger Josef Anna Maria. Münster 25.4.1888 — Hiltrup, Westfalen 16.4.1959. German Linguist. Son of Franz Xaver Wilhelm Baader, a book printer, and Clara Jäger. School in ...

  • BABBITT, Irving

    BABBITT, Irving. Dayton, Ohio 2.8.1865 — Cambridge, Mass. 15.7.1933. U.S. Romance Philologist interested in Pāli. Son of Edwin Dwight Babbitt and Augusta Darling. ...

  • BABINGTON, Benjamin Guy

    BABINGTON, Benjamin Guy. London 5.3.1794 — London 5/8.4.1865. British Physician interested in Tamil Language and Literature. Son of a London physician, William Babington ...

  • BACH, Claus-Peter
    BACH, Claus-Peter. 19?? — 2005. German Physician. Dr.med. Internist in Memmingen. Several visits to the Himalayas. Married with Lissy Bach-Sedel (b. c. 1930), no children.
    Publications: Mustang: ...
  • BACHHOFER, Ludwig

    BACHHOFER, Ludwig. Munich 30.6.1894 — Carmel, CA ?.3.1976. German Art Historian in the U.S.A. Professor in Chicago. From 1916 studies at Munich, soon ...

  • BACON, Thomas

    BACON, Thomas. Paddington, London 11.8.1813 — Devonshire 11.2.1892.British Colonial Officer and Artist in India. Son of sculptor John Bacon (1777–1859) and Susannah Sophia Taylor. In 1835-38 Lieutenant with Bengal ...

  • BACOT, Jacques

    BACOT, Jacques. St.-Germain-en-Laye (Indre) 4.7.1877 — Paris 25.6.1965. French Traveller and Tibetologist. Born in a family of cloth merchants, son of Raymond Bacot ...

  • BADEN POWELL, Baden Henry

    BADEN POWELL, Baden Henry (born Baden Henry Powell).BADER, Clarisse

    BADER, Clarisse. Strasbourg 28.12.1840 — Paris 5/14.2.1902. Mlle. French Journalist and Pioneer of Women’s Study, also interested in India. Daughter of Alsatian army ...

  • BADLEY, ­Brenton Hamline

    BADLEY, ­Brenton Hamline. Monmouth, co. Adams, Indiana 27.4.1849 — Lucknow 20.11.1891. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India. Son of Rev. Arthur Badley, Jr. and ...

  • BAER, Emil

    BAER, Emil. Rifferswil in Loo, Canton Zürich 23.12.1884 — Dielsdorf, Canton Zürich 8.11.1945. Swiss Priest ...

  • BAHM, Archie John

    BAHM, Archie John. Imlay, Michigan 21/22.8.1907 — Albuquerque, New Mexico 12.3.1996.U.S. Philosopher. Son of John Samuel Bahm and Lena Kohn. B.A. 1929 Albion College, Michigan. M.A. 1930 and Ph.D. 1933 ...

  • BAIER —> BAYER

    BAIER —> BAYER.

  • BAILEY, Benjamin

    BAILEY, Benjamin. Dewsbury, Yorkshire ?.11.1791 — Sheinton, Shropshire 3.4.1871. Rev. British Missionary of Church Missionary Society and Pioneer of Malayālam Lexicography. Son of ...

  • BAILEY, David Roy Shackleton
    BAILEY, David Roy Shackleton. Lancaster 10.12.1917 — Ann Arbor 28.11.2005. British Classical Scholar and Tibetologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Ann Arbor and Cam­bridge, Mass. ...
  • BAILEY, Harold Walter

    BAILEY, Harold Walter. Devizes, Wiltshire 16.12.1899 — 11.1.1996, Cambridge. Sir (1960). British Indo-Iranian Scholar, Famous Specialist of the Khotan Saka. Professor ...

  • BAILEY, Thomas Grahame

    BAILEY, Thomas Grahame. Ambala 8.9.1872 — Edinburgh 5.4.1942. Rev. British (Scottish) Priest and Indologist, a Specialist of Urdu and North-West Indian Languages. Son ...

  • BAILLY, Jean-Sylvain

    BAILLY, Jean-Sylvain. Paris 15.9.1736 — Paris 10.11.1793. French Mathematician, Astronomist and Historian of Astronomy. Son ...

  • BAIN, Francis William

    BAIN, Francis William. 29.4.1863 — 24.2.1940. British Fantasy Writer. He lived long time in India and presented ...

  • BAINBRIDGE, Reginald Balopooreah

    BAINBRIDGE, Reginald Balipooreah. Channel Islands 2.5.1871 — Arrah, Bengal 1.5.1914. British Civil Servant and Ethnologist concentrating on the Saoria tribe (also known as ...

  • BAINES, Jervoise Athelstan

    BAINES, Jervoise Athelstan. Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire 17.10.1847 — 26.11.1925. Sir. British Civil Servant in India and an Ethnologist. Son of the Rev. Edward Baines ...

  • BAKE, Arnold Adriaan

    BAKE, Arnold Adriaan. Hilversum 19.5.1899 — London 8.10.1963. Dutch Indologist in India and in the U.K. Born ...

  • BAKTAY, Ervin

    BAKTAY, Ervin (Erwin, to 1925 Baktay-Gottesmann). Dunaharaszti 24.6.1890 — Budapest 7.5.1963 (when 73). Hungarian Art Historian. Son of Raoul Gottesmann (d. 1905) and ...

  • BAL’MONT, Konstantin Dmitrievič

    BAL’MONT, Konstantin Dmitrievič. Gumnišči, Vladimir gub. 15(3).6.1867 — Noisy-le-Grand near Paris 24.12.1942 (not 1943). Russian Symbolist Poet, Critic, Essayist, Novelist, and Playwright, interested ...

  • BALAKIN, Andrej Andreevič
    BALAKIN, Andrej Andreevič. Orel (Oryol) 13.8.1883 — after 1926. Russian Oriental Scholar. Son of Andrej Il’ič Balakin, an army surgeon in reserve, and ...
  • BALBI, Gasparo

    BALBI, Gasparo. 15?? — after 1590. Italian Merchant and Traveller, in the East 1579-86. He was from Venice and dealt in jewels, and ...

  • BALDAEUS (Baelde), Philippus

    BALDAEUS, Philippus (Philips Baelde). Delft bapt. 24.10.1632 — Geervliet 1671. Dutch Priest and Traveller. Son of Jan Baelde, a merchant, and Maria de ...

  • BALFOUR, Edward Green

    BALFOUR, Edward Green. Angus, Montrose 6.9.1813 — London 8.12.1889. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Son of Captain ...

  • BALFOUR, Francis

    BALFOUR, Francis. Fife 1744? — Fernie estate, Fife 7.5.1818. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Son of Arthur B., an officer. Dr.Med. 1767 Edinburgh. ...

  • BALFOUR, Henry

    BALFOUR, Henry. Croydon, London 11.4.1863 — Headington, Oxford 9.2.1939. British Archaeologist and Anthropologist. Son of Lewis Balfour (1853–1885), a silk broker, and Sarah Walker Comber, educated at Charterhouse. From ...

  • BALIN, Viktor Iosifovič
    BALIN, Viktor Iosifovič. Bolšoe Muraškino 20.10.1925 — 1991. Russian Indologist (Hindi). Son of a worker. 1943-45 in Red Army. Graduated 1951 Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1956. Docent 1961. From ...
  • BALINT-ILLYÉS, Gabor Szentkátolnai

    BÁLINT-ILLYÉS, Gábor Szentkátolnai. Szentkátolna (now Catalina in Romania) 13.3.1844 — Temesvár (now Timişoara in Romania) 25.5.1913. ...

  • BALL, Valentine

    BALL, Valentine. Dublin 14.7.1843 — Dublin 15.6.1895. Irish Scientist in India. Son of the naturalist scholar Robert Ball (1802–1857) and Amelia Gresley Hellicar. ...

  • BALLANTYNE, James Robert

    BALLANTYNE, James Robert. Kelso, Teriotdale 13.12.1813 — Pimlico, London 18.2.1864. British (Scottish) Indologist in India. Son of Alexandet Thomson Ballantyne (1776–1847), ...

  • BALLHATCHET, Kenneth A.

    BALLHATCHET, Kenneth Arthur. Bristol 29.11.1922 — 13.3.1995. British Historian of South Asia. Professor in London. Educated at Clifton College in Bristol. From 1941 ...

  • BALLIN, Louis

    BALLIN, Louis. 18?? — 1???. Frenchman apparently knowing Sanskrit. Doctor. “Ancien sous-inspecteur des forêts”, in 1897 living in Autun. Continued Fauche’s Mahābhārata translation. ...

  • BALLINI, Ambrogio

    BALLINI, Ambrogio. Asola (near Mantova) 19.7.1879 — 20.3.1950. Italian Indologist, especially Jaina Scholar. Professor in Padua, Milano and Rome. Studied at ...

  • BALLY, Charles-Louis

    BALLY, Charles-Louis. Geneva 4.2.1865 — Geneva 10.4.1947. Swiss Linguist and Greek scholar. Son of a teacher, Jean Bally (d. 1870), and ...

  • BĂNĂŢEANU, Vlad

    BĂNĂŢEANU, Vlad. Timişoara 22.8.1900 — Bucharest 8.11.1963. Romanian IE and Classical Scholar, Armenologist and Indologist. Professor in Bucureşti. First studies of law and ...

  • BANESS, Joshua Frederick

    BANESS, Joshua Frederick. Delhi 30.1.1830 — Simla 7.6.1884. British Civil Servant in India. Born in India, son of Athanas Baness (1802–1845) ja Harriet Lumley ...

  • BANG KAUP, Willy

    BANG KAUP, Willy (Willi, Johann Wilhelm Max Julius Bang Kaup). Wesel 8/9.8.1869 — Darmstadt 8.10.1934. German Linguist, Turkic and Iranian Scholar. ...

  • BANHA, Manuel Baptista

    BANHA, Manuel Baptista. 1??? — 1???. Father. Portuguese (?) Franciscan Missionary in India, probably in the 17th century. He is mentioned as the ...

  • BANNERTH, Ernst

    BANNERTH, Ernst. Eilenburg, Sachsen 13.10.1895 — Cairo 29.4.1976. German Urdu and Islamic Scholar and Catholic priest. Educated in Leipzig, 1913 became professional officer ...

  • BAPTISTA, Manuel

    BAPTISTA, Manuel. 1??? — 1???. Franciscan Missionary in India in the 17th century. Apparently also an architect and worked in Daman. Censor of ...

  • BARADIJN, Badzar Baradinevič

    BARADIJN, Badzar Baradinevič. v Mogojtuj Aginsk. ajmaka 16.6.(28.6.)1878 — 24.8.1937. Russian (Buryat) Buddhist, Tibetan and Mongolian scholar. Born in a herder family. Graduated ...

  • BARANNIKOV, Aleksej Petrovič

    BARANNIKOV, Aleksej Petrovič. Zolotonoša, Poltavskaja obl. 25.2. (9.3.)1890 — Leningrad (St.Petersburg) 4.9.1952. Russian (Ukrainian) Indologist. Son of a worker, graduated 1914 from Kiev ...

  • BARATTI, Giuseppina

    BARATTI, Giuseppina. 18?? — 19??. Italian, student of Kerbaker at Naples. One G.B. was born in Naples 1887 and was in the 1920s ...

  • BARBORKA, Geoffrey Avery

    BARBORKA, Geoffrey Avery. Chicago 6.9.1897 — 30.9.1982. U.S. Theosophist. Son of Vaclav Barborka, a Theosophist with Czechoslovakian origin, and Bozena Peshek, grew up ...

  • BARBOSA, Duarte

    BARBOSA, Duarte. Lisbon c. 1480? — Cebu, Philippines 1.5.1521. Portuguese Traveller in the East. Son of Diogo Barbosa, a high servant of the ...

  • BARBOUR, Philip Lemont.

    BARBOUR, Philip Lemont. Louisville, Kentucky 21.12.1898 — Petersburg, Virginia 21.12.1980. U.S. Linguist, Historian and Radio Broadcaster. Son of Philip Foster Barbour, a physician, ...

  • BARDELLI, Giuseppe

    BARDELLI, Giuseppe. Branciolino, Pieve S. Stefano, Arezzo 10.4.1815 — Florence 2.10.1865. Abbate. Italian Indologist and Orientalist (Sinologist and Coptic Scholar). Professor at Pisa, ...

  • BARDÓN Y GÓMEZ, Lázaro

    BARDÓN Y GÓMEZ, Lázaro. Inicio 8.6.1817 — Madrid 9.6.1897. Spanish Priest and Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Born in the province of Léon. ...

  • BAREAU, André

    BAREAU, André. Saint Mandé (Seine) 31.12.1921 — Paris 2.3.1993. French Buddho­logist. Professor in Paris. Son of an accountant. After undergraduate studies ...

  • BARHUDAROV, Aleksej Stepanovič

    BARHUDAROV, Aleksej Stepanovič. Puškin, Leningrad obl. 22.8.1927 — 9.5.2001. Russian Indologist (Hindi scholar). Son of a scholar of Russian language, Stepan Grigor’evič Barhudarov (1894–1983). Studies at Oriental Faculty in ...

  • BARIĆ, Henrik

    BARIĆ, Henrik. Dubrovnik 28.1.1888 — Belgrade 3.4.1959. Yugoslavian (Croatian) Linguist. Born of a poor clerical family. Studies at Graz (i.al. Meringer) and Vienna. ...

  • BARIGUE DE FONTAINIEU

    BARIGUE DE FONTAINIEU —> BARRIGUE DE FONTAINIEU

  • BARKER, William Burckhardt

    BARKER, William Burckhardt. Aleppo, Syria 1810 — Sinope, Turkey 28.1.1856. British Traveller. Son of Consul-General John Barker (1771–1849) and Marianne Hays. In 1819 brought to England for education, in 1835 returned ...

  • BARNETT, Lionel David

    BARNETT, Lionel David. Liverpool 21.10.1871 — London 28.1.1960. British Indologist. Son of Jewish banker Barron Lewis Barnett and Adelaide ...

  • BARR, Kaj

    BARR, Kaj. Copenhagen 26.6.1896 — Copenhagen 4.1.1970. Danish Iranian Scholar. Professor in Copenhagen. Adopted son of Friederich Eduard Barr (d. 1912), a mechanic, ...

  • BARRETO, Júlio Francisco Antönio Adeodato

    BARRETO, Júlio Francisco António Adeodato. Margão, Goa 3.12.1905 — Coimbra 6.8.1937. Portuguese (Luso-Goan) Poet, Writer and Journalist. Son of Vicente Mariano Barreto, educated ...

  • BARRETT, Douglas Eric

    BARRETT, Douglas Eric. 10.3.1917 — 26.9.1992. British Art Historian of India. Studies of Classics at Oxford. In 1939-46 Major in British Artillery. From 1947 ...

  • BARRETT, LeRoy Carr

    BARRETT, LeRoy Carr. Cape Girardeau, Missouri 11.3.1877 — Hartford, Conn. 16.7.1960. U.S. Classical Scholar and Indologist. Son of Thomas Carr Barrett ...

  • BARRIGUE DE FONTAINIEU, Gérard

    BARRIGUE DE FONTAINIEU, Gérard Hilaire Prosper Emmanuel Hippolyte, Baron, 1895 Marquis de Fontainieu. Marmande (Lot et Garonne) 26.7.1863 — Paris 15.4.1927. BARROS, João de

    BARROS, João de. Vila Verde, Viseu, Portugal 1496? — Ribeira de Litém near Pombal 20.10.1570. Portuguese Humanist, Civil Servant, and Contemporary Historian of ...

  • BARROW, George

    BARROW, George. Mayfair, London 22.10.1806 — West Molesey, Surrey 27.2.1876. Sir, 2nd Baronet. British Civil Servant. Son of Sir ...

  • BARSCHEL, Bernd

    BARSCHEL, Bernd. Hohenstein-Ernstthal near Zwickau 28.6.1937 — Jena 14.10.1990. German (East) Indologist. Son of a merchant. Educated in Chemnitz, from 1955 studies at Halle, first theology, but soon linguistics ...

  • BARSTOW, Arthur Edward

    BARSTOW, Arthur Edward (“Bustling Bill”). Edinburgh 17.3.1888 — near Layang Layang, Malaya 28.1.1942. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Major-General (1941). ...

  • BARTH, Marie-Étienne-Auguste

    BARTH, Marie-Étienne-Auguste. Strasbourg 22.3.1834 — Paris 15.4.1916. French Indologist. Born in Strasbourg as the son of catholic father, commis-négociant Étienne Barth, ...

  • BARTHÉLEMY-SAINT-HILAIRE, Jules

    BARTHÉLEMY-SAINT-HILAIRE, Jules. Paris 19.8.1805 — Paris 24.11.1895. French Philosopher, Classical Scholar and Politician, also interested in Indology and Indian Thought. Born ...

  • BARTHÉLEMY, Adrien

    BARTHÉLEMY, Adrien Léon Nicolas. Paris 24.8.1859 — Emancé (Rambouillet)

  • BARTHOLD, W.

    BARTHOLD, W. —> BARTOL’D, V. V.

  • BARTHOLOMAE, Christian

    BARTHOLOMAE, Friedrich Christian Leonhard. Forsthaus in Forstleithen bei Limmersdorf, Land­kreis Kulmbach 21.1.1855 — Langeoog, Ostfriesland ...

  • BARTHOUX (Couyat-Barthoux), Jules-J

    BARTHOUX (Couyat-Barthoux), Jules Pierre (or Jules-J.). Étroussat (Aller) 22.7.1881 — 1965. French Geologist and Archaeologist. Born as Jules Couyat, son of Anne C. Worked as geologist ...

  • BARTOL’D, Vasilij Vladimirovič (Wilhelm Barthold)

    BARTOL’D, Vasilij Vladimirovič (Wilhelm Barthold). St.Petersburg 3(15).11.1869 — Leningrad 19.8.1930. Russian Scholar of Central Asian History and Geography, one of the most famous ...

  • BARTOLI, Emilio

    BARTOLI, Emilio. 2.10.1861 — 19??. Italian Indologist and Translator of Sanskrit Literature. Student of Kerbaker at Naples. In the 1910s teacher ...

  • BARTOLI, Matteo

    BARTOLI, Matteo Giulio. Albona, Istria (now Labin in Croatia) 22.11.1873 — Turin 23.1.1946. Italian Lin­guist. Ph.D. Vienna (Meyer-Lübke). Also ...

  • BARTUS, Theodor

    BARTUS, Theodor. Lassan near Greifswald 30.1.1858 — Berlin 28.1.1941. German, Assistant to the Berlin Ethnological Museum, participated in all four Prussian ...

  • BARUCH, Willy

    BARUCH, Willy. Herford, Kr. Detmold 1900 — Montfavet, Avignon ?.3.1954. German Indologist, Sinologist, Tibetan, Buddhist and Central Asian Scholar. Born of ...

  • BASHAM, Arthur Llewellyn

    BASHAM, Arthur Llewellyn (“Bash”). Loughton, Essex 24.5.1914 — Calcutta 27.1.1986. British Indologist in Australia. Professor in London and Canberra. Son of ...

  • BAŠIĆ(-MALNAR), Karmen
    BAŠIĆ(-MALNAR), Karmen. Zagreb 25.6.1943 — Almaty 22.3.1999. Yugoslavian/Croatian Indologist. Studied German and English, then Indology at Zagreb. In 1975 she was preparing a study on Ānandavardhana’s dhvani ...
  • BASSOLS DE CLIMENT, Mariano

    BASSOLS DE CLIMENT, Mariano. Figueras, Catalonia 12.12.1903 — Barcelona 20.10.1973. Spanish (Catalan) Classical Scholar, Professor of Latin in Barcelona, where he also taught ...

  • BASTIAN, Adolf

    BASTIAN, Philipp Wilhelm Adolf. Bremen 26.6.1826 — Port-of-Spain, Trinidad 2.2.1905. Catholic German Anthropo­logist, Psychologist, and Traveller, a ...

  • BASTON, Albert

    BASTON, Albert. 18?? — 19??. French Indologist. Probably a student of S. Lévi. Agrégé de l’université (1914). Still active in 1925.

  • BATAILLARD, Paul Théodore

    BATAILLARD, Paul Théodore. Paris 23.3.1816 — Paris 1.3.1894. BATE, John Drew

    BATE, John Drew. Plymouth 1836 — 26.1.1923. British Missionary, Priest, and Hindi Scholar. Educated at Regent’s Park College, London. Member of the Baptist ...

  • BATESON, Joseph Harger

    BATESON, Joseph Harger. Kendal, Westmoreland 5.3.1865 — 5.10.1935. Rev. British clergyman in Burma. Son of Thomas Bateson and Sarah Severs. From 1886 until 1913 Chaplain of territorial Forces, at ...

  • BATSCH, Friedrich

    BATSCH, Friedrich. 182? — 1907. Rev. German Lutheran Missionary in India. Ordained 1844 in Berlin and left for India ...

  • BAUDIŠ, Josef

    BAUDIŠ, Josef. Prague 27.8.1883 — Bratislava 4.5.1933. Czech IE and Celtic Linguist and Folklorist. Gymnasium and studies (1902-06) ...

  • BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY, Jan

    BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY, Jan Ignacy Niecisław (Jean, in Russian Ivan Aleksandrovič Boduèn-de-Kurtenè). Radzymin near Warsaw 13.3.1845 — Warsaw 3.11.1929. Famous Polish ...

  • BAUDRY, Frédéric

    BAUDRY, Frédéric. Rouen 25.7.1818 — Paris 2.1.1885. French IE Scholar. Librarian in Paris. Son of a book printer, Frédéric-Louis Baudry. After École normale ...

  • BAUER, Hubert

    BAUER, Hubert. 18?? — 19??. Austrian (?) Student of Iranian. Ph.D. 1920 Vienna.

  • BAULEZ, Marius-Joseph-Aimé.

    BAULEZ, Marius-Joseph-Aimé. Marseille 12.9.1842 — Bangalore 29.4.1906. French Missionary in India. Ordained priest in 1865 and in 1866 went to Pondichéry. ...

  • BAUMER, Rachel Van Meter

    BAUMER, Rachel Van Meter. 1928 — 15.3.1995. U.S. Indologist (Bengali). Student of T. W. Clark. Ph.D. 1964 University of Pennsylvania. First taught at Michigan State University, from 1970 at University of ...

  • BAUMGARTEN, Michael

    BAUMGARTEN, Michael. Haseldorf, Holstein 25.3.1812 — Rostock 21.7.1889. German Lutheran Theologian. Son of a farmer, Hinrich Baumgarten, and Anna ...

  • BAUMGARTNER, Alexander

    BAUMGARTNER, Alexander. Sankt Gallen 27.6.1841 — Luxembourg 5.9. 1910. S.J. Swiss Jesuit Scholar and Indologist. Son of an influential politician (a ...

  • BAUNACK, Johannes Fürchtegott

    BAUNACK, Johannes Fürchtegott. Trebsen bei Grimma (east of Leipzig) 22.12.1854 — 1928. German Philologist. Son ...

  • BAUNACK, Paul Theodor

    BAUNACK, Paul Theodor. Trebsen bei Grimma (east of Leipzig)

  • BAUSANI, Alessandro

    BAUSANI, Alessandro. Rome 29.5.1921 — Rome 11.3.1988. Italian Orientalist (Persian Scholar). Grew up in a stricly religious Catholic family, educated in Rome. Studies ...

  • BAYER, Theophil (Gottlieb) Siegfrid

    BAYER, Theophilus (Gottlieb) Siegfried. Königsberg 5/6.1.1694 — St.Petersburg 10.2.1738. German Orientalist and Historian, from Königsberg, was elected to the Imperial Russian Academy of ...

  • BAYLEY, Edward Clive

    BAYLEY, Edward Clive. St.Petersburg 17.10.1821 — Keymer, Sussex 30.4.1884. Sir. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Antiquarian Studies. Son of Edward Clive ...

  • BAYNES, Herbert

    BAYNES, Herbert Morton Walker. Kensington, Middlesex / Bayswater, Westminster 2.2.1855 — Cumberland / Manly, both in NSW, ...

  • BAZIN-FOUCHER, Eugénie

    BAZIN-FOUCHER, Émile Eugénie Marguerite Virginie (“Éna”). Chesnay (Yvelines) 7.10.1889 — 30.1.1952. French Art Historian. Originally studied English at Sorbonne, then 1915-18 ...

  • BEAL, Samuel

    BEAL, Samuel. Devonport 27.11.1825 ...

  • BEALE, Thomas William

    BEALE, Thomas William. 1??? — Agra 1875. British Civil Servant and Oriental Scholar in India. Very little is known of his life. He worked as clerk in the office ...

  • BEAMAN, George Burnham

    BEAMAN, George Burnham. Cincinnati, Ohio 1.4.1870 — 12.2.1942. U.S. Teacher and Student of Indology in Germany. Son of Rev. Edmund Addison Beaman (1811–1908), a ...

  • BEAMES, John

    BEAMES, John William. Greenwich 21.6.1837 — Clevedon, Somerset 24.5.1902. British Civil servant and Indologist in India, a Pioneer of Comparative NIA Studies. Served in ...

  • BECCARINI-CRESCENZI, Elena

    BECCARINI-CRESCENZI, Elena. 18?? — 19??. Italian Poet and Translator interested in Sanskrit. Born of (or married to) an old noble family of Siena. A ...

  • BECHERT, Heinz
    BECHERT, Heinz. Munich 26.6.1932 — Göttingen 14.6.2005. German Indo­logist, a Famous Specialist of Buddhist Studies. Professor in Göttingen. Son of Rudolf Becher (1900–1961), a lawyer, and Herta ...
  • BECHTEL, Fritz (Friedrich)

    BECHTEL, Fritz (Friedrich). Durlach 2.2.1855 — Halle 9.3.1924. German IE Scholar. Professor in Göttingen and Halle. Son of Johann Friedrich Bechtel, a ...

  • BECK, Horace Courthope

    BECK, Horace Courthope. London 13.11.1873 — Chichester 7.2.1941. British Archaeologist, a pioneer of bead studies. Son of Joseph ...

  • BEČKA, Jiří
    BEČKA, Jiří. Prague 16.10.1915 — Prague 21.12.2004. Czech Iranian Scholar. Gymnasium in Prague. From 1936 studied law and Oriental languages at Prague, then much belated because of ...
  • BECKER, Christophorus (Christoph Edmund)

    BECKER, Christophorus (born Christoph Edmund B.). Elsoff near Frankfurt 22.10.1875 — Würzburg 30.3.1937. S.D.S. German Catholic Missionary in India and Scholar of Missiology and ...

  • BECKH, Hermann

    BECKH, Christoph Eugen Hermann. Nürnberg 4.5.1875 — Stuttgart 1.3.1937. German Indologist and Tibetan Scholar, later turned into Anthroposophist Priest. Son of a factory owner, ...

  • BEER, Eduard Friedrich Ferdinand

    BEER, Eduard Friedrich Ferdinand. Bautzen, Upper Lusatia 15.6.1805 — Leipzig 5.4.1841. German Epigraphist and Semitic Scholar, a Pioneer of Cuneiform Studies. Son of a ...

  • BEGLAR, Joseph David

    BEGLAR, Joseph David(itch) Freedone Melik. Dacca (Dhaka) 1840 — 24.4.1907. Armenian Archaeologist in India. Son of David ...

  • BEHRSING, Siegfried

    BEHRSING, Siegfried. Bremerfeld, near Weissenstein (now Prääma in Estonia) 9.11.(27.10.)1903 — Berlin 5.4.1994. German (originally from Estonia) Sinologist and Buddhist Scholar, in the beginning ...

  • BEISENHERZ, Heinrich

    BEISENHERZ, Heinrich. Waldeck Sachsenberg 1.2.1844 — Dobia, Reuss 18.1.1922. German Missionary in India. After school in Leipzig and military service studies of theology at Leipzig. ...

  • BELENICKIJ, Aleksandr Markovič.

    BELENICKIJ, Aleksandr Markovič. Ljubino (Lobino), Belarus 24.3./6.4.1904 — St.Petersburg 15.6.1993. Russian Archaeologist, Specialist of Sogdian Art. Son of a farmer. After studies in Smolensk ...

  • BELIGATTI, Giovanni

    BELIGATTI, Giovanni —> CASSIANO DA MACERATA

  • BELL,  Thomas Evans

    BELL,  Thomas Evans. London 11.11.1825 — Kensington, London 12.9.1887. British Colonial Officer in India. Major. Son of William Bell and Elizabeth Kinnear, educated at Wandsworth (London). Joined Madras Army in ...

  • BELL, C. W. Bowdler

    BELL, Cyril William Bowdler (from 1892 C. W. Bowdler). Hull, Yorkshire 1839 — Surrey 5.11.1918. British Officer. Colonel. Son of John Pearson Bell and ...

  • BELL, Charles Alfred

    BELL, Charles Alfred. Calcutta 31.10.1870 — Oak Bay, Victoria, B.C. 8.3.1945. Sir. British Tibetan Scholar, Traveller, and Civil Servant ...

  • BELL, Harold Wilberforce

    BELL, Harold Wilberforce —> H. WILBERFORCE-BELL

  • BELL, Harry Charles Purvis

    BELL, Harry Charles Purvis. India 21.9.1851 — Kandy 6.9.1937. British Archaeologist of Sri Lanka. Son of General Harry Wainwright Bell (1821–1888) ...

  • BELLASIS, Augustus Fortunatus

    BELLASIS, Augustus Fortunatus. India, Bombay Presidency 9.10.1822 — Red Sea 23.3.1872. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Lt.-Col. Daniel Hutchins Bellasis (1785–1836) and ...

  • BELLEW, Henry Walter

    BELLEW, Henry Walter. Nusserabad (Nasirabad, Ajmer dt.) 30.8.1834 — Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire 26.7.1892. British Physician and Orientalist (Pashto Scholar) in India. Son of Captain ...

  • BELLIN, Antoine-Gaspard

    BELLIN, Antoine-Gaspard. Lyon 15.6.1815 — Lyon 3.4.1891. French Literate interested in Oriental Studies. Studies at Lyon, Dr.iuris 1839. Served all his ...

  • BELLONI-FILIPPI, Ferdinando

    BELLONI-FILIPPI, Ferdinando. Buti near Pisa 7/17.7.1877 — Florence 24.1. 1960. Italian Indologist. Professor in Florence and Pisa. A student of Pullé and Formichi, graduated ...

  • BELSER, Carl William

    BELSER, Carl William. New Washington, Ohio 21.12.1860 — Boulder, Colorado 28.1.1898. U.S. Linguist. Professor in Ann Arbor and Boulder. Son of a clergyman, Rev. ...

  • BELTRAMI, Arnaldo

    BELTRAMI, Arnaldo. 1.9.1862 — 19??. Italian Classical Scholar interested in Indology. Ph.D. 1885 Turin. He was a schoolteacher (Professor) of Latin and Greek ...

  • BENARY, Agathon

    BENARY, Karl Albert Agathon. Kassel 17.1.1807 — Berlin 6.12.1860. German Classical and IE scholar. Teacher in Berlin. Born in Kassel as a son of ...

  • BENARY, Ferdinand

    BENARY, Franz Simon Ferdinand. Kassel 22.3.1805 — Berlin 7.2.1880. German Indologist and Orientalist. Professor in Berlin. Born in Kassel in ...

  • BENDA, Elimar

    BENDA, Elimar. Freiburg im Br. 13.8.1890 — 1976. German Librarian. Dr.iur. 1913 Jena. Further studies of comparative linguistics, Germanistics and Sanskrit at Marburg. From ...

  • BENDALL, Cecil

    BENDALL, Cecil. London 1.7.1856 — Liverpool 14.3.1906. British Indologist, a Specialist of Buddhist Mahāyāna Literature in Sanskrit. Professor in Cambridge. Son of ...

  • BENDER, Ernest

    BENDER, Ernest. Buenos Aires 2.1.1919 — Philadelphia 18.4.1996. U.S. Indo­logist. Professor in Philadelphia. Born in Argentina as U.S. citizen, came to Philadel­phia in the ...

  • BENDER, Harold Herman

    BENDER, Harold Herman. Martinsburg, W.Va. 20.4.1882 — Princeton 15.8.1951. U.S. IE, Indo-Iranian, and Lithuanian Scholar. Professor in Princeton. Born in an old American family, ...

  • BENFEY, Theodor

    BENFEY, Theodor. Nörten bei Göttingen 28.1.1809 — Göttingen 26.6.1881. German Indologist and IE Scholar. Professor in Göttingen. Born in a Jewish family, son of ...

  • BENIGNY, Gyula (Julius)

    BENIGNY, Gyula (Julius). 1890 — 1966. Hungarian IE Linguist. Ph.D. Teacher at Debrecen ...

  • BÉNISTI (Monié-Bénisti, née Sarfati)

    BÉNISTI (Monié-Bénisti, also Bénisti-Monié, née Sarfati), Mireille. Algier 10.10.1909 — 11.12. 1993. French Art Historian (Buddhist and Khmer Art). Born in ...

  • BENMOHEL, Nathan Lazarus

    BENMOHEL, Nathan Lazarus. Hamburg 26.5.1803 — Dun Laoghaire (or rather Sandycove nearby), county Dublin 22.12.1869. German Jew in Ireland. Son of Rabbi Elieza Lazi ...

  • BENNETT, Adrienne A. G

    BENNETT, Adrienne A. G. 1892 — 1972. Mrs. Britishwoman interested in Buddhism. Studied mathematics and physics, then changed to painting (several exhibitions in London). Lived ...

  • BENNETT, Allan (Ananda Metteyya Thera)

    BENNETT, Charles Henry Allan (Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya Thera). London 8.12.1872 — London 9.3.1923. British Bauddha. Son of an engineer, lost early his father. He ...

  • BENTLEY, John

    BENTLEY, John. 1756? — Calcutta 4.3.1823 (when 67). British Mathematician and Astronomer. Spent long time in India. While severely criticizing the supposed high antiquity ...

  • BENVENISTE, Émile

    BENVENISTE, Émile (born Ezra B.). Aleppo, Syria 25.2. or 27.4.1902 — Versailles 3.10.1976. French Iranian scholar and Linguist. ...

  • BERESFORD, George Read Edward

    BERESFORD, George Read Edward. London 3.8.1815 — Delhi 11.5.1857. British Banker in India. Son of Thomas Beresford (d. 1819) and Ann Blake, went to India in 1834-35. Manager of ...

  • BEREZOVSKIJ, Mihail Mihailovič

    BEREZOVSKIJ, Mihail Mihajlovič. 1848 — St.Petersburg 5.4.1912. Russian Ornithologist, Ethnographer and Traveller in Central Asia. Born in a noble family, school in St.Petersburg. As ...

  • BERG, Cornelis Christian

    BERG, Cornelis Christian. Rotterdam-West 18.12.1900 — Leiden 25.6.1990. Dutch South-East Asian Scholar. Professor in Leiden. After school in Schiedam from 1919 ...

  • BERGAIGNE, Abel

    BERGAIGNE, Abel-Henri-Joseph. Vimy (Pas-de-Calais) 31.8.1838 — La Grave (Hautes Alpes) 6.8.1888. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. Son of ...

  • BERGER, Hermann
    BERGER, Hermann. Bad Kötzting, Bayerischer Wald 17.10.1926 — Heidelberg 31.1.2005. German Indologist. Professor in Heidelberg. After school military service ending as war prisoner. Released studies of Indology, ...
  • BERGH VAN EYSINGA, Gustaaf Adolf van den

    BERGH VAN EYSINGA, Gustaaf Adolf van den. ’s-Gravenhage 27.6.1874 — Bloemendaal, North Holland 26.5.1957. Dutch Protestant Theologian and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Son ...

  • BERGMAN, Folke

    BERGMAN, Folke. Stockholm 29.8.1902 — Stockholm 22.5.1946. Swedish Central Asian Archaeologist. Matriculated 1922 from Norrmalm (Stockholm), studies at Uppsala. BERGMANN, Benjamin Fürchtegott Balthasar von

    BERGMANN, Benjamin Fürchtegott Balthasar von. Arrasch, Livonia (now Āraiši in Latvia) 17(28).11.1772 — Blussen b. Wenden (now Blusu near Cēsis, Latvia) 16(28).8.1856. ...

  • BERGMANN, Frédéric-Guillaume (Friedrich Wilhelm)

    BERGMANN, Frédéric-Guillaume (Friedrich Wilhelm). Strasbourg 9.2.1812 — Stras­bourg 13.11.1887. French (Alsatian) Linguist and Philologist. Professor in Strasbourg. Son of Anton Josef Bergmann (1776–1839), ...

  • BERGNY, August Viktor

    BERGNY, August Viktor (born A. V. Nyberg). Norrköping 31.3.1868 — 1927. Swedish Teacher interested in Indology. Son of Karl August Nyberg, a ...

  • BERGSTEDT, Carl Fredrik

    BERGSTEDT, Carl Fredrik. Lillkyrka, Örebro län 24.7.1817 — Skrukarp, Kristberg socken, Östergötland 26.1.1890. Swedish Literate interested in Sanskrit. Son of a ...

  • BERLINZOLA, Marcella

    BERLINZOLA, Marcella. 1??? — ????. Italian Indologist. In the 1930s studied seven years Sanskrit under Formichi. In 1943 collaborated with Pettazzoni.

    Publications: “Attendibilita del ...

  • BERNARD, Theos

    BERNARD, Theos Casimir Hamati. Los Angeles 10.12.1908 — Kosar, Pakistan ?.9.1947. U.S. Bauddha and Yogi. Son of Glen Agassiz Bernard and Aura ...

  • BERNEKER, Erich

    BERNEKER, Erich. Königsberg 3.2.1874 — Munich 15/20.3.1937. German Linguist, mainly Slavic, but also IE Scholar. Professor in Munich. Son of bank director Richard B. ...

  • BERNER, Vil’gel’m Mihajlovič

    BERNER, Vil’gel’m Mihajlovič. v Baranovič, Minskoj gub. (now in Belarus) 1903 — Leningrad 1958. Russian Indologist. After school from 1917 apprenticed in north-western ...

  • BERNET KEMPERS, August Johan

    BERNET KEMPERS, August Johan. ’s-Hertogenbosch 7.10.1906 — Arnhem 2.5.1992. Dutch Art Historian and South-East Asian Scholar, long time in Indonesia. Son of ...

  • BERNHARD, Franz

    BERNHARD, Franz. Schweidnitz in Silesia (now Świdnica in Poland) 31.5.1931 — Mustang/Nepal 5.9. 1971. German Indologist. Professor in Hamburg. Son of a butcher from ...

  • BERNHEIMER, Carlo

    BERNHEIMER, Carlo. Leghorn 3.9.1877 — 1966. Italian (Jewish) Indologist and Palaeographist. From Leghorn, studies at Bologna (Pullé), graduated 1896/97. Taught from 1906 as Docent ...

  • BERNIER, François

    BERNIER, François. Joué-Étiau (Maine-et-Loire) 26.9.1620 — Dauphine (or Paris?) 22.9.1688. French Physician and Traveller in India. Spent twelve years (1656-68) in India, and was ...

  • BERNINI DA GARGHANO, Giuseppe Maria

    BERNINI DA GARGHANO, Giuseppe Maria —> GIUSEPPE MARIA DA GARGHANO (Bernardino Bernini)

  • BERNOT, Lucien

    BERNOT, Lucien. Gien (Loiret) 2.12.1919 — Brantes (Vaucluse) 14.7.1993. French Anthropologist. Son of farmer, grew up in country, from the age of 14 worked as typographist. After WW II ...

  • BERNOULLI, Jean (Johann)

    BERNOULLI, Johann. Basel 4.11.1744 — Berlin-Köpenick 13.7.1807. Swiss Scientist interested in India. Born in the family of famous mathematicians, himself a noted astronomer and ...

  • BERNŠTAM, Aleksandr Natanovič

    BERNŠTAM, Aleksandr Natanovič. Kerch (Kerč), Crimea 1.(14.)10.1910 — Leningrad 10.12.1956 (when 47). Russian Central Asian Archaeologist. Educated in Sevastopol. Graduated 1931 from Leningrad Institute ...

  • BERNSTEIN, Georg Heinrich

    BERNSTEIN, Georg Heinrich. Cospeda near Jena 12.1.1787 — Lauban, Silesia (now Lubań, Poland) 5.4.1860. German Oriental (mainly Syriac) Scholar, also interested in Sanskrit. Professor ...

  • BERRIZ DO SEIXO, Aureliano Julio

    BERRIZ DO SEIXO, Aureliano Julio. 18?? — 19??. Spanish Scholar. Dr. of Civil and Canonic Law 1881 Madrid. Assistant Professor of Sanskrit at Madrid 1881-83 ...

  • BERTHELOT, Marcellin

    BERTHELOT, Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin. Paris 25.10.1827 — Paris 18.3.1907. French Chemist, famous for his work on Organic Chemistry. Also a Scholar of the History ...

  • BERTHOLET, Alfred

    BERTHOLET(-SCHMID), Alfred Robert Felix. Basel 9.11.1868 — Münsterlingen, Thurgau 24.8.1951. Swiss Reformed Theologian and Scholar of Comparative Religion in Germany. Professor in ...

  • BERTRAND, François-Marie, l’abbé

    BERTRAND, François-Marie, l’abbé. Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne) 26.10. 1807 — Versailles 30.1.1881. French Indologist (Hindi scholar) and Catholic priest. Studies at Seminaire St.Sulpice in Versailles. Served ...

  • BERTRAND, Gabrielle

    BERTRAND, Gabrielle. Reims 29.3.1908 — Paris 16.2.1961. French Traveller, Reporter, Writer and Photographer. Of Lorraine, lost her father in WW I. Studied at a hospital in Paris, but did not pass ...

  • BESANT, Annie

    BESANT, Annie (née Wood). London 1.10.1847 — Adyar (Madras) 19.9.1933. British Theosophist. Daughter of William Burton Persse Wood (1816–1852) and Emily Morris, ...

  • BESCHI, Constantino Gioseffo Eusebio (Constanzo B., Constantinus Beschius, Vîra-mâmunivar)

    BESCHI, Constantino Gioseffo Eusebio (Constanzo B., Constantinus Beschius, Vīra-māmunivar). Castiglione delle Stiviere near Mantua 8.11.1680 — Ambalakat near Cranganore, Kerala ...

  • BESKROVNYJ, Vasilij Matveevič

    BESKROVNYJ, Vasilij Matveevič. Šejkovka (Šijkivka), Harkovskaja obl., Ukraine 24.5. (6.6.)1908 — Moscow 1.4.1978. Russian (Ukrainian?) Indologist, specialist in Hindi/Urdu. From 1926 studies ...

  • BESSE, Léon

    BESSE, Léon (Leo). 27.3.1853 — 1919. Father. S.J. French Jesuit Missionary and Historian in India. Joined the S.J. in 1881. Teacher and ...

  • BETH, Ali

    BETH, Ali. Almelo 2.2.1911 — 1989. Dutch Indologist. Daughter of Hermanus Johannes Elisa Beth, a teacher, and Hillegje de Groot. Studied classics and ...

  • BETTANY, George Thomas
    BETTANY, George Thomas. Penzance, Cornwall 30.3.1850 — Dulwich, London 2.12.1891. British Biologist, Anthropologist, and Author. Son of George Bettany, a schoolmaster and journalist. Educated privately, then 1868-70 ...
  • BETTEI, Vittorio

    BETTEI, Vittorio. Padova 15.9.1859 (or 1860?) — 19??. Italian Indologist and Classical Scholar. Teacher (“professor”) of Latin and Greek in Avellino (1895), at Ginnasio ...

  • BETTS, Ursula (née Bower)

    BETTS, Ursula  Violet Graham (née U. V. G. Bower). Wiltshire 15.5.1914 — Fordingbridge, Hampshire 12.11.1988. British Anthropologist. Daughter of Commander John Graham Bower (1886–1940) of Royal Navy and

  • BEVERIDGE, Annette Susannah (née Akroyd)

    BEVERIDGE, Annette Susannah (née Akroyd). Stourbridge, Worcestershire 13.12.1842 — London 27.3.1929. British Oriental (Persian and Eastern Turkish) Scholar. Wife of —> Henry ...

  • BEVERIDGE, Henry

    BEVERIDGE, Henry. Scotland 1799 — 1863. The Elder. British (Scottish) Lawyer and Historian of Colonial India. Father of ...

  • BEVERIDGE, Henry

    BEVERIDGE, Henry. Inzievar, Fife 9.2.1837 — London 8.11.1929. British (Scottish) Historian of Mughal and Colonial India. ...

  • BEYER, Kurt

    BEYER, Kurt. 18?? — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. Bonn 1923.

    Publications: Diss. Das Nominalkompositum im Aitareyabrāhmaṇa und in den ...

  • BEYTHAN, Hermann

    BEYTHAN, Hermann. Teichel bei Rudolstadt, Thüringen 29.5.1875 — 1945?. German Missionary and Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Son of a farmer. After Mission School in Leipzig ...

  • BEZZENBERGER, Adalbert

    BEZZENBERGER, Adalbert. Kassel 14.4.1851 — Königsberg 31.10.1922. German IE scholar. Professor in Königsberg. Son of the Germanist scholar Heinrich Ernst B. (1814-1892) and Amalie ...

  • BHARATI, Agehananda (Leopold Fischer)

    BHARATI, Agehananda (Leopold Fischer), Swami. Vienna 20.4.1923 — Rochester, NY 14.5.1991. Austrian-born Indologist, Tantric Scholar and Anthropologist, for ...

  • BIANCHI, Ugo

    BIANCHI, Ugo. Cavriglia, Arezzo 13.10.1922 — Firenzuola, Florence 14.4.1995. Italian Scholar of Iranian Religion. Son of a parastatal employee, grew up in Rome. Studies ...

  • BICKELL, Gustav

    BICKELL, Gustav Wilhelm Hugo. Kassel 7.7.1838 — Vienna 25.1.1906. German Oriental (Semitic) Scholar in Austria. Son of Johann Wilhelm Bickel (1799–1844), Professor ...

  • BIČURIN, Iakinf (Hyacinth, originally Nikita Jakovlevič B.)

    BIČURIN, Iakinf (Hyacinth, originally Nikita Jakovlevič). Akulevo, Tsivil’skij district, Kazan Province 29.8.1777* — St.Petersburg 11.5.1853. Russian (Čuvaš) Monk, Orthodox Priest, Sinologist and ...

  • BIDDULPH, Charles Hubert

    BIDDULPH, Charles Hubert. Abu, Rajasthan 28.7.1898 — London 11/16.10.1966. British Engineer and Numismatist in India. Son of Charles Bidduplh (1867–1937) and ...

  • BIDDULPH, John

    BIDDULPH, John. Ledbury, Hereforshire 25.7.1840 — Gray Court, London 31.12.1921. British Colonial Officer and Anthropologist in India. Son of Robert Biddulph (1801–1864, a Whig ...

  • BIDIE, George

    BIDIE, George. Buckies, Banffshire 3.4.1830 — Bridge of Allan, Scotland 19.2.1913. Dr. Surgeon-General. British (Scottish) Physician in India. School in Aberdeen, ...

  • BIESE, Yrjö Moses Jalmari

    BIESE, Yrjö Moses Jalmari. Helsinki 4.1.1903 — Helsinki 7.11.1983. Finnish Indologist and Linguist (Classical Philology and English). Professor ...

  • BIGANDET, Paul-Ambroise

    BIGANDET, Paul-Ambroise. Malans (Doubs) 13.8.1813 — Rangoon 19.4.1894. French Catholic Missionary and Buddhist Scholar. Fifty years in Burma. Educated in Besançon and at ...

  • BILLARD, Roger

    BILLARD, Roger Louis. Puteaux (Paris) 29.12.1922 — Mennecy near Paris 30.12.2000. French Indologist. He was of modest origin and had to work after school, but the post in the ...

  • BINGLEY, Alfred Horsford

    BINGLEY, Alfred Horsford. Cranleigh, Surrey 28.5.1865 — Surrey 20.4.1944. Sir. British Colonial Officer. Son of Peregrine Taylor Bingley (1825–1886) and Alice Austin, educated at ...

  • BINYON, Laurence Robert

    BINYON, Laurence Robert. Lancaster 10.8.1869 — Reading, Berkshire 10.3.1943. British Art Historian, Dramatist and Poet. Son of Frederick Binyon, a clergyman, and ...

  • BIOT, Jean Baptiste

    BIOT, Jean Baptiste. Paris 21.4.1774 — Paris 3.2.1862. French Historian of Science, especially Astronomy. Son of a treasury official, Joseph Biot, joined the army ...

  • BIRD, James

    BIRD, James. 1797 — Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire 10.7.1864. British Physician in India interested in Archaeology. Educated from 1810 at King’s College, ...

  • BIRDWOOD, George

    BIRDWOOD, George Christopher Molesworth. Belgaum, India 8.12.1832 — Ealing, London 28.6.1917. Sir. British Physician and Botanist in India interested in Science and ...

  • BJÖRNSTJERNA, Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand

    BJÖRNSTJERNA, Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand, Count. Dresden 10.10.1779 — Stockholm 6.10.1847. Swedish General and Writer on Economy and History. ...

  • BLACKADER, Adam

    BLACKADER, Adam. 17?? — 1807?. British Physician in India. In 1777-92 Surgeon of Presidency of Fort Saint George (Madras), in the 1780s ...

  • BLAIR, Chauncey J.

    BLAIR, Chauncey Justus. Chicago 3.12.1913 — Chapel Hill, N.C. 1999. U.S. Indologist. Son of Chauncey Buckley Blair and Mildred Mitchell Marshall (or Paulette M. Picard?). Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. ...

  • BLAKESLEY, Thomas H.

    BLAKESLEY, Thomas Holmes. Ware, Hertsfordshire 8.7.1847 — London 13.2.1929. British Civil Engineer and Scientist also interested in Archaeology. Son of Rev. Joseph ...

  • BLAKISTON, John Francis

    BLAKISTON, John Francis. Amersham, Buckinghamshire 21.3.1882 — Caernarvon 8.1.1965. British Archaeologist. Son of John Rochfort Blakiston (1840–1921) and Georgina Helen Cubbitt, educated at ...

  • BLAND, Nathaniel

    BLAND, Nathaniel (born Nathaniel Crumple). Liverpool 3.2.1803 — Homburg-les-Bains 10.8.1865. British Oriental (Persian) Scholar. Son of the elder Nathaniel Bland ...

  • BLANFORD, William Thomas

    BLANFORD, William Thomas. London 7.10.1832 — London 23.6.1905. British Geologist and Zoologist in India. Son of William Blanford, a factory owner, and Elizabeth Simpson, ...

  • BLAQUIERE, William Coates

    BLAQUIERE, William Coates. 1759 (?) — Calcutta 14.8.1853. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Jacques/Jacob Blaquiere (1726–1791). Came to India with his ...

  • BLATT, Gustaw

    BLATT, Gustaw (Gerszon). Jarosław 15.2.1858 — Lwów (L’viv) 17.9.1916. Polish Linguist (IE and Slavic). Studies of classical and Slavic philology at Cracow, student of ...

  • BLATT, Heinrich

    BLATT, Heinrich. Steinbach am Glan 10.3.1894 — 1.4.1949. German Indologist. Librarian in Würzburg. After gymnasium in Speyer studies of classical, Germanic and IE philology ...

  • BLATTER, Edelbert (or Ethelbert)

    BLATTER, Edelbert (or Ethelbert). Romanshorn, Appenzell 15.12.1877 — Pune 26.5.1934. S.J. Swiss Catholic Missionary Scholar in India. Son of the elder Edelbert ...

  • BLAU, August

    BLAU, August. Mittelhausen, Erfurt 8.3.1858 — Landsberg, Warthe 11.7.1926. German Indologist. Librarian in Berlin. “Mediohusanus.” Studies at Jena, 1883 Ph.D. in classical philology. In ...

  • BLAU, Otto

    BLAU, Ernst Otto Friedrich August. Nordhausen, Thüringen 21.4.1828 — Odessa 26.2.1879. German Diplomat and Oriental Scholar. Son of Christian Friedrich Blau (teacher, ...

  • BLAVATSKY, Helena Petrovna

    BLAVATSKY, Helena Petrovna (née Hahn, Russian Jelena Petrovna Blavatskaja, née Gan). Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro in Ukraine) 12.8.1831 — London 9.5.1891. Russian Noblewoman, ...

  • BLEECK, Arthur Henry

    BLEECK, Arthur Henry. Westbury, Wiltshire 18.5.1829 — Kensington, London 27.1.1877. British Orientalist, said to be known of his remarkable linguistic talent (but translating Spiegel’s ...

  • BLEEKER, Claas Jouco

    BLEEKER, Claas Jouco. Beneden Knijpe (now De Knijpe), Schoterland, Friesland 12.9.1898 — Amsterdam 5.5.1983. Dutch Historian of Religion. Son of Rev. Johannes Jakob ...

  • BLEICHSTEINER, Robert

    BLEICHSTEINER, Robert. Vienna 6.1.1891 — Vienna 10.4.1954. Austrian Linguist, Scholar of Iranian and Caucasian Languages and Ethnology, later also of Mongolian and Tibetan.  Son ...

  • BLIN, Amédée

    BLIN, Amédée. 1799? — 18??. French Colonial Officer. Still in Paris, he had some months attended the Hindustani classes of Garcin de ...

  • BLOCH, Alfred

    BLOCH, Alfred. Basel 18.4.1915 — Basel 11.7.1983. Swiss Indologist, IE and Semitic Scholar. Professor in Basel. Born in Jewish family, son of engineer Max ...

  • BLOCH, Jules

    BLOCH, Jules. Paris 1.5.1880 — Sèvres (Seine-et-Oise) 29.11.1953. French Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Paris. Son of a Jewish merchant, Salomon ...

  • BLOCH, Theodor

    BLOCH, Ernst Theodor. Christiansfeld, Schleswig (now Slesvig, Denmark) 8.5.1867 — Calcutta 20.10.1909. German Indologist. Born as the son of a dyer master, Bernhard Bloch, ...

  • BLOCHET, Edgar

    BLOCHET, Gabriel Joseph Edgar. Bourges (Cher) 12.12.1870 — Paris 5.9.1937. French Oriental (Arabic and Iranian) Scholar and Historian of Religions. Son of a cavalry ...

  • BLOCHMANN, Henry (Heinrich) Ferdinand

    BLOCHMANN, Henry (Heinrich) Ferdinand. Dresden 8.1.1838 — Calcutta 13.7.1878. German Oriental Scholar in India, Specialist of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. Son of a printer, ...

  • BLOMBERG, Carl Johan

    BLOMBERG, Carl Johan. Ljusdal, Hälsingland 29.5.1838 — Härnösand 15.3.1890. Swedish Schoolteacher interested in Sanskrit. Teacher in Härnösand. Son of post master Carl Ludvig Blomberg ...

  • BLONAY, Godefroy de, baron

    BLONAY, Godefroy Jean Henry Louis de, baron. Niederschoenthal, Füllingsdorf (Basel-Land) 25.7.1869 — Biskra, Algeria 14.2.1937. ...

  • BLOOMFIELD, Leonard

    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 ...

  • BLOOMFIELD, Maurice

    BLOOMFIELD, Maurice (born Blumenfeld). Bielitz, Austrian Silesia (now Bielsko-Biała in Poland) 23.2.1855 — San Francisco, CA 13.6.1928. U.S. (of German ...

  • BLUMHARDT, James F.

    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 ...

  • BLUNT, Edward Arthur Henry

    BLUNT, Edward Arthur Henry. Curepipe, Mauritius 14.3.1877 — Fleet, Hampshire 29.5.1941. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Frances ...

  • BLUNT, James T.

    BLUNT, James Tillyer. 1765/67 (bapt. All Saints, Fulham, Middlesex 26.5.1767) — 20.10.1834 (buried in Exeter). British Officer in India, visited and described ...

  • BOAKE, William John Slade

    BOAKE, William John Slade. Colombo 1844 — London 2.6.1889. British (Irish) Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Dr. Barcroft ...

  • BOBRINSKOY, George Vladimir

    BOBRINSKOY, George Vladimir (Russian Georgij Vladimirovič Bobrinskoj). Tula, Russia 23.1.1901 — Franklin, Mass. 15/17.11.1985. U.S. (Russian born) Indologist. Professor ...

  • BOCARRO, Antonio

    BOCARRO, Antonio. Abrante (or Lisbon?) 1594? — Goa 1643?. Portuguese Historian and Geographer. Son of New Christian parents (with Jewish background). Educated at ...

  • BOCHINGER, Jean-Jacques

    BOCHINGER, Jean-Jacques (Johann Jacob B.). Strasbourg 28.11.1802 — Strasbourg 12.8.1831. Alsatian Protestant Theologian. Of humble origin, son of Jean Bochinger, a ...

  • BODDING, Paul Olaf

    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 ...

  • BODE, Mabel Kate Haynes

    BODE, Mabel Kate Haynes (née Haynes). 28.10.1864 — Shaftesbury, Dorset 20.1.1922. British Indologist (Pāli scholar). Daughter of Robert William Haynes (d. ...

  • BODEN, Joseph

    BODEN, Joseph. 17?? — Lisbon 21.11.1811. British Colonial Officer. Founder of the famous Boden chair of Sanskrit at Oxford University. Entered the Bombay ...

  • BOEHLING, Georg

    BOEHLING, Georg. Rodenberg, Kreis Rinteln 28.10.1854 — Hannover 3.6.1912. German Teacher and former Student of IE Linguistics. Studies at Göttingen, Berlin, Königsberg and ...

  • BOELES, Jan Jetso

    BOELES, Jan Jetso. Leeuwarden 1909 — 2002. Dutch Businessman, Buddhist and South-East Asian Scholar. From 1935 until his death living in Thailand, except in 1940-45, when also studied South-East ...

  • BOER, Richard Constant

    BOER, Richard Constant. Warnsveld near Zutphen 31.1.1863 — Amsterdam 20.8.1929. Dutch Linguist. Son of Richard Willem Boer and Constantia Gisius Nanning. Ph.D. 1888 Groningen. In 1888-1900 taught Dutch and ...

  • BOGDAN-DUICA, Gheorghe

    BOGDAN-DUICĂ, Gheorghe (born Gh. Bogdan).  Brassó/Kronstadt, Hungary (now Braşov in Romania)) 2.1.1866 — Braşov 21.9.1931. Romanian Literate interested in Indian Literature. ...

  • BOGLE, George

    BOGLE, George. Daldowie on Clyde near Glasgow 26.11.1746 — Calcutta 3.4.1781. British (Scottish) Traveller and Diplomat. Youngest son of George Bogle (1700–1784), an ...

  • BOGORODICKIJ, Vasilij Alekseevič

    BOGORODICKIJ, Vasilij Alekseevič. Carevokokšajsk (now Joškar-Ola in Mari Republic) 7(19).4.1857 — Kazan 23.12.1941. Russian IE and Slavic Linguist. Professor in Kazan. ...

  • BOGOSLOVSKIJ, Vasilij Alekseevič

    BOGOSLOVSKIJ, Vasilij Alekseevič. Moscow 20.1.1932 — 25.4.1986. Russian Tibetologist. Son of a public servant. Studies at the Hist. Faculty of ...

  • BOHLEN, Peter von

    BOHLEN, Peter von. Wüppels, Jeverland 13.3.1796 — Halle 6.2.1840. German Indologist and Orientalist. Professor in Königsberg. Son of a poor farmer, Christian Bohlen, ...

  • BÖHM, Annie

    BÖHM, Annie Karoline. Mährisch Ostrau (Moravská Ostrava in Czech) 17.8.1893 — Haifa, Israel 11.9.1985. Austrian Student of IE Linguistics. Daughter of ...

  • BOHNENBERGER, Karl

    BOHNENBERGER, Karl. Riedbach, Bavaria 26.8.1863 — Tübingen 29.10.1951. German Linguist (Germanist) interested in Indology. Librarian and Professor in Tübingen. Son of Heinrich B. ...

  • BÖHTLINGK, Otto Nikolaus von

    BÖHTLINGK, Otto Nikolaus von (Russian Otto Nikolaevič Betlingk). St.Petersburg 11.6.(30.5.)1815 — Leipzig 1.4.1904. Russian (German) Indologist. Born in St.Petersburg ...

  • BOISACQ, Émile

    BOISACQ, Émile. Namur 26.11.1865 — Ixelles (Brussels) 2.6.1945. Belgian Linguist and Classical Scholar. Educated in Namur, then studies at Brussels, agrégé 1889, dr. ...

  • BOISEN, Lars Nannestad

    BOISEN, Lars Nannestad. Vesterborg, Lolland 8.2.1803 — Ibid. 22.4.1875. Danish Priest and Theologian interested in Sanskrit and Oriental Studies. Bishop of Vesterborg-Birket. Son ...

  • BOISSELIER, Jean

    BOISSELIER, Jean Henri Joseph Albin. Paris 26.8.1912 — Paris 26.2.1996. French Archaeologist, Art Historian and Buddhist Scholar. Son of the military illustrator Henri Boisselier (1881–1959). In the 1920s studied ...

  • BOISSEROLLE-BOISVILLIERS, Aurèle-Jean de

    BOISSEROLLE-BOISVILLIERS, Aurèle-Jean de (Baron A.-J. de Boisserolle, chevalier de Boisvilliers). Paris 3.9.1764 — Sumène (Gard) 1.2.1829. French General, apparently interested in Sanskrit. Son ...

  • BOISSEVAIN, Jan Wilhelm

    BOISSEVAIN, Jan Wilhelm. Amsterdam 27.9.1874 — Velp, Rheden, Gelderland 24.3.1959. Dutch Indologist and Theosophist. Son of Gideon Maria Boissevain and Louise Caroline toe ...

  • BOLLENSEN, Friedrich

    BOLLENSEN, Georg Friedrich (in Russia known as Fëdor Fëdorovič Bolenzen). Rossdorf, Kreis Göttingen 12.1.1809 — Wiesbaden 29.2.1896. German Indologist in Russia. Son of ...

  • BOLLER, Anton

    BOLLER, Johann Anton. Krems an der Donau 2.1.1811 — Vienna 19.1.1869. Austrian Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Vienna.

  • BOLLING, Frederik Andersen

    BOLLING, Frederik Andersen (Friederic B.). Drangedal, Telemark 1640? — 1685. Norwegian Traveller ...

  • BOLLING, George Melville

    BOLLING, George Melville. Baltimore 13.4.1871 — Princeton, NJ 1.6.1963. U.S. Greek Scholar and Indologist. Professor of Classical Philology in Columbus. Son of William ...

  • BOLTZ, August

    BOLTZ, August. Breslau 26.9.1819 — Jugenheim bei Darmstadt 1.5.1907. German Literate, Language Teacher and Translator interested in Sanskrit. Gymnasium in Breslau, then worked ...

  • BOMFORD, Trevor

    BOMFORD, Trevor. Bembridge, Isle of Wight 18.11.1849 — India 21.12.1929. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Samuel Bomford and Frances Jane Winter. Studies ...

  • BOMPAS, Cecil Henry

    BOMPAS, Cecil Henry. London 31.5.1868 — Broughton, Hampshire 22.1.1956. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry Mason Bompas (barrister, d. 1909) and ...

  • BONARDI, Mario

    BONARDI, Mario. Rome 29.5.1914 — 14.6.1954. Italian Indologist (Buddhist scholar). Studied in Rome and graduated as a teacher of Greek and ...

  • BONER, Alice

    BONER, Alice. Legnano, Lombardy 22.7.1889 — Zürich 13.4.1981. Swiss Artist (Sculptor) and Art Historian of India. Born in Italy of Swiss-English ...

  • BONET-MAURY, Gaston

    BONET-MAURY,  Amy Gaston Charles Auguste. Paris 2.1.1842 — Paris 20.6.1919. French Protestant Historian. Son of General Frédéric Bonet (catholic) and Julie Chabrier (protestant). After school in Paris (lycée Henri IV) studies ...

  • BONFANTE, Giuliano
    BONFANTE, Giuliano Ugo. Milano 6.8.1904 — Rome 9.9.2005 (when 101). Italian IE and Romance Linguist. Son of Pietro Bonfante (1864-1932), Professor ...
  • BONN, Gisela

    BONN, Gisela (nom-de-plume of Gisela Döhrn). Elberfeld near Wuppertal 22.9.1909 — Stuttgart 11.10.1996. German Journalist. Daughter ...

  • BONSEN, Fritz

    BONSEN, Fritz, pseudonym for —> A. HILLEBRANDT

  • BONVALOT, Gabrie
    BONVALOT,  Pierre Gabriel Édouard. Épagne (Aube) 13.7.1853 — Auteuil, Paris 10.12.1933. French Central Asian Explorer. Son of Pierre Bonvalot and Louise-Félicie Congniasse des Jardins, school in Troyes. In 1880-82 ...
  • BOPP, Franz

    BOPP, Franz. Mainz 14.9.1791 — Berlin 23.10.1867. German Indologist and Lin­guist. Professor in Berlin. Born in a Roman Catholic family, son ...

  • BOR, Norman Loftus

    BOR, Norman Loftus. Tramore, County Waterford 2.5.1893 — London 22.12.1972. Irish Botanist. Son of Edward Bor and Mabel Thornton. ...

  • BORÉ, Eugène

    BORÉ, Eugène. Angers 15.8.1809 — Paris 3.5.1878. French Orientalist, especially Armenian Scholar. Son of an official who died in 1812, in 1828 also ...

  • BORECKÝ, Jaromír

    BORECKÝ, Jaromír. Buddies (now České Budějovice) 6.8.1869 — Prague 8.5.1951. Czech Poet, Translator and Librarian, listed as an Oriental scholar by Heyne and ...

  • BORECKÝ, Miloš

    BORECKÝ, Miloš. Prague 28.12.1903 — Washington, DC, U.S.A. 18.3.1954. Czech Oriental (Iranian) Scholar in the U.S.A. Son of —> Jaromír Borecký (1869–1951) and ...

  • BORGSTRØM, Carl Hjalmar

    BORGSTRØM, Carl Hjalmar. Kristiania (Oslo) 12.10.1909 — Oslo 14.9.1986. Norwegian Celtic and IE Linguist. Professor in Oslo. Son of Hjalmar Botgstrøm (1864–1925), a ...

  • BORK, Ferdinand A.

    BORK, Ferdinand A. Forsthaus bei Königsbruch, Kr. Tuchel, Westpreussen (now in Poland) 26.11.1871 — Benhausen, Paderborn 28.2.1962. German Scholar of Ancient Near East, ...

  • BORKOWSKI, Aleksander (Leszek) Dunin

    BORKOWSKI, Aleksander (Leszek) Ferdynand Wincenty Dunin (Dunin B., Al.). Gródek 11.1.1811 — Lemberg (Lwów, now L’viv) 30.11.1896. Count. Polish Politician, Poet and Author, who ...

  • BORROW, George

    BORROW, George Henry. East Dereham, Norfolk 5.7.1803 — Lowestoft, Suffolk 26.7.1881. British Author. Son of Thomas Borrow ...

  • BORTHWICK, Meredith
    BORTHWICK, Meredith. Colombo 1950 — 1995. Australian Diplomat and Scholar. Daughter of a diplomat, grew up in Ceylon, Singapore and Thailand. High school in Canberra. B.A. and ...
  • BORTOLAZZI, Bortolo Maria

    BORTOLAZZI, Bortolo Maria. Bassano (Veneto) 25.3.1806 — 8.1.1879. Italian interested in Sanskrit. Of a Venetian noble family living in Bassano, son ...

  • BOSCH I GIMPERA, Pere

    BOSCH I GIMPERA, Pere. Barcelona 22.3.1891 — Ciudad de México 9.10.1974. Spanish (Catalan) Archaeologist and IE Scholar in Mexico. Son of Pere Bosch ...

  • BOSCH, Frederik David Kan

    BOSCH, Frederik (Fritz) David Kan. Potchefstroom, Transvaal 17.6.1887 — Leiden 20.7.1968. Dutch Indologist and Indonesian Scholar. Professor in ...

  • BOSWELL, John Alexander Corrie

    BOSWELL, John Alexander Corrie. India 26.10.1835 — Kensington, London 6.1.1872. British Colonial Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Robert Bruce Boswell and ...

  • BÖTTICHER, P.

    BÖTTICHER, P. —> LAGARDE, Paul de.

  • BOUCHET, Jean Venant

    BOUCHET, Jean Venant. Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendée) 12.4.1655 — 1732. Father. S.J. French Missionary in Thailand and India. Jesuit novice 1670. First briefly in Thailand, ...

  • BOUDA, Karl

    BOUDA, Karl Ernst. Hamburg 10.2.1901 — Erlangen or Nürnberg (?) 31.7.1979. German Linguist and Caucasologist. Son of Karl Enoch Bouda and ...

  • BOUGLÉ, Célestin

    BOUGLÉ, Célestin Charles Alfred. Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-du-Nord, now Côtes-d’Armor) 1.6.1870 — Paris 25.1.1940. French Positivist Philosopher and Sociologist. School in Paris. Studies at École normale supérieure, agrégé in philosophy 1893. Ph.D. ...

  • BOULANGER, Chantal
    BOULANGER-MALONEY, Chantal. Paris 4.1.1957 — Kebili, Tunisia 27.12.2004. French Social Anthropo­logist working on South India. Educated in France, studied in Brighton and Japan, then anthropology ...
  • BOULNOIS, Jean

    BOULNOIS, Jean Raymond Paul. Berville-en-Caux, Normandy 19.3.1904 — Philippeville, Algeria 1956. French Physician interested in India. Son of ...

  • BOUQUET, Alan Coates

    BOUQUET, Alan Coates. Forest Hill, London 24.5.1884 — Cambridge 4.3.1976. Rev. British Scholar of Religion. Son of Robert Coates Bouquet, Registrar to the ...

  • BOURGEOIS, Danielle
    BOURGEOIS, Danielle. 19?? — 2005. Belgian Alpinist. Married 1967 Jean Bourgeois (b. 1938). In 1969 they travelled in Afghanistan and found in Laghmān an Aramaic Aśokan inscription.  In 2000 ...
  • BOURGUIGNON D’ANVILLE, Jean-Baptiste

    BOURGUIGNON D’ANVILLE, Jean-Baptiste. Paris 11.7.1697 — Paris 28.1.1782. French Cartographer, Geographer and Historian of Geography. Son of Hubert Bourguignon, a tailor, and Charlotte ...

  • BOURQUIN, Auguste Ali

    BOURQUIN, Auguste Ali. Sonvilier, canton Bern 8.4.1848 — Denver 14.1.1928. Swiss Protestant Priest and Indologist. Son of Louis Alcide Bourquin and Zelie Chopard. ...

  • BOWDEN, Ernest M.

    BOWDEN, Ernest Monnington. Rochford, Herefordshire bapt. 17.7.1859 — Ramsgate, Kent 3.4.1904. British Author and Inventor (Wikipedia calls him Irishman, which ...

  • BOWER, Hamilton

    BOWER, Hamilton St.Clair. Portsea Island, Hampshire 1.9.1858 — North Berwick, East Lothian 5.3.1940. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer and Traveller in Central Asia. ...

  • BOWER, Henry

    BOWER, Henry. Madras 1812 — Palayankottah 1885. Rev. Anglo-Indian Missionary in South India. D.D. Son of Francis Bower (François Bouverie, d. 1824) and ...

  • BOWER, U. V. G. —> U. V. G. BETTS (née Bower)
    BOWER, U. V. G. —> U. V. G. BETTS (née Bower)
  • BOWERS, Faubion

    BOWERS, Faubion. Miami, Oklahoma 29.1.1917 — New York City 17.11.1999. U.S. Japanologist. Grew up in Tulsa. Graduated 1935 from Columbia University and 1939 from Juilliard Graduate School of Music ...

  • BOWLES, Charles (then Charles Bowles Shakespear)

    BOWLES, Charles (then Charles Bowles Shakespear). Leicestershire 1811 — 1899. British Teacher of Hindustani. Son of Charles ...

  • BOWREY (Bowry), Thomas

    BOWREY (Bowry), Thomas. Wapping, London 7.9.1659 — 1?.7.1713. British Sea Captain in the East. Came to Madras as a child of 7 after ...

  • BOWRING, Lewin B.

    BOWRING, Lewin Bentham. Hackney, London 15.7.1824 — Torquay, Devon 14.1.1910. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Sir John Bowring (1792–1872), ...

  • BOXBERGER, Robert

    BOXBERGER, Robert. Gotha 28.5.1836 — Stadtsulza near Weimar 30.3.1890. German Literate interested in Sanskrit. Son of a fireplace-maker, gymnasium in Erfurt, then studied 1855-58 philology ...

  • BOXER, Charles Ralph

    BOXER, Charles Ralph. Sandown, Isle of Wight 8.4.1904 — St.Albans, Hertfordshire 27.4.2000. British Historian of Early Colonial Asia. Son of Colonel Hugh Edward Richard Boxer ...

  • BOXWELL, John

    BOXWELL, John. Butlerstown, co. Wexford 31.5.1838 — Dacca (Dhaka) 15.5.1891. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Francis Boxwell and Martha Carey. ...

  • BOYD, Palmer

    BOYD, Palmer. Simla, India 29.9.1840 — 1875. British Indologist. Son of the Lieutenant-General Mossom Boyd (1781–1865) of Bengal Army and Charlotte Loftie (1806–1867), ...

  • BOYER, Augustin-M.

    BOYER, Augustin-M. Vannes (Morbihar, Brittany) 20.11.1850 — 2.1.1938. Abbé, S.J. French Indologist and Epigraphist, a Catholic Priest. Educated at the Collège ...

  • BOYLE, John Archibald

    BOYLE, John Archibald. 1845 — Palamcotta, Madras 9.2.1875. British Civil Servant in South India. Son of Rev. Edward Fitzmaurice Boyle of ...

  • BRACHET, Benjamin

    BRACHET, Benjamin, as the author of a Vedic work (Prières antèhistoriques. Œuvres de Koutsa et Hirayastoupa. P. 1870) is sometimes called, ...

  • BRADDOCK, John

    BRADDOCK, John. Westminster 1794 (bapt. 30.4.) — Madras 9.8.1840. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of John Braddock, a master refiner of saltpetre, and his wife Sarah . Served ...

  • BRADKE, Peter von

    BRADKE, Peter von. St.Petersburg 27.6.1853 — Giessen 7.3.1897. German (Livonian) Indologist. Son of Georg Friedrich von Bradke (1796–1862), wirkl. Geheimrat and senator in ...

  • BRADLEY, William Henry

    BRADLEY, William Henry. 6.10.1807 — Sandgate, Kent 22.8.1881. British Physician in India. Medical training in London (M.D. 1829), then served as naval surgeon. ...

  • BRAMZELIUS, Abbe (Albert) W.

    BRAMZELIUS, Abbe (Albert) Wilhelm Nils. Ystad, Skåne 27.7.1902 — Norrköping 6.6.1981. Swedish Painter and Scholar. Ph.D., art studies in Paris (Académie Colarossi). Married sculptor Margareta (Märta) Eleonora Hammarlund (1899–1988), ...

  • BRANDENSTEIN, Wilhelm

    BRANDENSTEIN, Wilhelm. Salzburg 23.10.1898 — Graz 1.12.1967. Austrian Indo-Iranian and Indoeuropean Scholar. Professor in Graz. Son of an official, educated in Salzburg. In ...

  • BRANDES, Edvard

    BRANDES, Carl Edvard Cohen. Copenhagen 21.10.1847 — Copenhagen 20.12.1931. Danish Journalist and Politician, started his career as an Indologist. Son of ...

  • BRANDES, Jan Laurens Andries

    BRANDES, Jan Laurens Andries. Rotterdam 13.1.1857 — Batavia (Jakarta) 26.6.1906. Dutch Indonesian Philologist and Archaeologist. Son of a Lutheran ...

  • BRANDI, Mario

    BRANDI, Mario. Trieste 11.12.1891 — 1943/44?. Italian Theosophist. Son of Salvatore Brandi and Elisa Iacchia. He authored several mystic books, two in collaboration ...

  • BRANDRETH, Edward Lyall

    BRANDRETH, Joseph Edward Lyall. Liverpool 4.2.1823 — London 10.12.1907. British Civil Servant and one of the Pioneers of NIA Linguistics in India. Son of Joseph ...

  • BRANDT, Francis

    BRANDT, Francis. Pendleton, Lancashire 6.5.1840 — Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 17.7.1925. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Robert Brandt and his wife Margaret. Educated at Cheltenham College, became famous as ...

  • BRANFILL, Brydges Robinson

    BRANFILL, Brydges Robinson. Upminster Hall, Essex 22.11.1834 (or 1833?) — Billericay, Essex 26.5.1905. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Champion ...

  • BRASSAI, Sámuel

    BRASSAI, Sámuel. Torockó (now Rimetea in Romania) or Torockószentgyörgy (Colțești) 15.6.1797 or 13.2.1800 — Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca ...

  • BRAUNHOLTZ, Gustav Ernst Karl

    BRAUNHOLTZ, Gustav Ernst Karl. Cambridge 19.3.1887 — 21.4.1967. British Linguist (IE and Classic). Son of Eugen Gustav Braunholtz (1859–1941), German academician who moved in ...

  • BRAY, Denys de Saumarez

    BRAY, Denys de Saumarez. Aberdeen 29.11.1875 — Winchester 19.11.1951. Sir. British Civil Servant in India, a Scholar of Baluchistan and its Languages (Brahui). ...

  • BRÉAL, Auguste

    BRÉAL, Edouard Auguste. 19.2.1868 — Marseille 17/22.1.1941. French Critic, Art Historian and Painter. Son of —> Michel Bréal (1832–1915) and Henriette Bamberger. Bachelier ès lettres 1888, Licencie ès lettres 1890, Licencie ...

  • BRÉAL, Michel

    BRÉAL, Michel-Jules-Alfred. Landau (Pfalz) 26.3.1832 — Paris 25.11.1915. French IE scholar. Professor in ...

  • BREEKS, James Wilkinson

    BREEKS, James Wilkinson. Warcop, Westmoreland 5.3.1830 — Ootacamund 7.6.1872. British Civil Servant and Ethnologist in India. Son of Richard Breeks and Elizabeth Wilkinson, ...

  • BREEKS, Susan Maria

    BREEKS, Susan Maria (née Denison). Woolwich, Kent 16.3.1841 — Brough, Cumbria 22.4.1923. Britishwoman in India, from 1863 wife of —> James Wilkinson Breeks ...

  • BREITHAUPT, Johann Christian

    BREITHAUPT, Johann Christian. Dransfeld near Göttingen 26.9.1719 — Vepery, Chennai 17.11.1782. German Missionary in South India. Son of Christoph Breithaupt ...

  • BRELOER, Bernhard

    BRELOER, Bernhard. Herne, Westfalen 8.11.1894 — Tbilisi 20.4.1947. German Indologist. Professor in Berlin. Son of mill owner Bernhard Breloer and Auguste Lueg. ...

  • BRENNAND, William

    BRENNAND, William. Clitheroe, Lancastershire 1818? — Wellington, Somerset ?.2.1897. British Teacher in India, Principal of Dacca College (1856). In 1896 had ...

  • BREUIL, Paul de

    BREUIL, Paul René Marie Jouveau  du. Vincennes, Paris 15.3.1932 — Neuilly-sur-Seine 19.10.1991. French Scholar of Religion. Studies at É.P.H.É. Fieldwork in Sierra Leone ...

  • BREWSTER, Earl H.

    BREWSTER, Earl Henry. Chagris Falls, Ohio 21.9.1878 — Almora 19.9.1957. U.S. Artist (Painter) and Author. Educated in Cleveland and N.Y. Schools of Art. Worked as ...

  • BREWSTER, Paul G.

    BREWSTER, Paul G. Stendal, Ind. 5.11.1898 — 19??. U.S. Folklorist, Specialist of Games. B.S. 1920 Oakland City College. M.A. 1925 University of Oklahoma (but never Ph.D.). In 1926-29 taught ...

  • BRICE, Nathaniel

    BRICE, Nathaniel. Plymtree, Devon 13.11.1814 — Dinapore, Bihar 2.7.1869. British Baptist Missionary in India. The ...

  • BRIEM, Efraim
    BRIEM,  Olof Efraim (born Olsson). Helsingborg 17.9.1890 — Lund 15.6.1946.  Swedish Historian of Religions. Son of merchant Olof Ludvig Olsson (1854–1908) and Emma Cecilia ...
  • BRIESS, Erwin

    BRIESS, Erwin Eduard. Olmütz (Olomouc), Moravia 9.5.1886 — 1946. Austrian Journalist and former Student of Indology in Switzerland. Swiss citizen. Grew up ...

  • BRIGEL, Johann Jakob

    BRIGEL, Johann Jakob. Erpfingen, Württemberg 4.12.1832 — Engstlatt 4.12.1887. Rev. German Missionary in India, belonged to Basel Mission in Mangalore. Spent 16 years in ...

  • BRIGGS, George Weston

    BRIGGS, George Weston. North Branch, Michigan 21.9.1874 — Madison, NJ 18.4.1966. U.S. Missionary and Indologist. Son of David C. Briggs and Emily ...

  • BRIGGS, Henry George

    BRIGGS, Henry George. Bombay 20.10.1824 — Bombay 4.7.1872. British Merchant, Traveller, and Orientalist. Son of Henry Briggs. In 1843 travelled in South Africa, ...

  • BRIGGS, John

    BRIGGS, John. Madapollam, Madras 18.9.1785 — Burgess Hill, Sussex 27.4.1875. British Colonial Officer and Oriental Scholar, 1801-35 in India. Son of ...

  • BROADLEY, Alexander Meyrick

    BROADLEY, Alexander Meyrick. Bradpole, Dorset 19.7.1847 — Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire 16.4.1916. British Civil Servant and Lawyer in India. Son of Rev. Alexander Broadley, vicar ...

  • BROCKHAUS, Hermann

    BROCKHAUS, Hermann. Amsterdam 28.1.1806 — Leipzig 5.1.1877. German Indologist and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Leipzig. Born in Amsterdam in a German ...

  • BRODIE, Alexander Oswald

    BRODIE, Alexander Oswald. Madras 1821 — Edinburgh 5/6.11.1874. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Colonel James Brodie (1782–1831), of Madras Army, and Eliza Thompson. From 1845 ...

  • BRODOV, Vasilij Vasil’evič

    BRODOV, Vasilij Vasil’evič. Moscow 28.2.(13.3.)1912 — Moscow 4.3.1996. Russian Indologist, interested in philosophy. Son of a worker. In 1935-42 taught at Moscow Conservatory. ...

  • BRONSON, Miles

    BRONSON, Miles. Norway, Maine (Chr. Biogr.) or co. Herkimer, N.Y. (Wikipedia) 20.7.1812 — Eaton Rapids, Mich. 9.11.1883. U.S. Baptist Missionary in India. Son ...

  • BROOKS, Robert R. R.

    BROOKS, Robert Romano Ravi. Rome, Italy 1905 — Nyack, NY 28.1.1992. U.S. Economist. Son of James Brooks and Rubina Ravi. Grew up in Vermont and Florida. From 1945 Orin Sage ...

  • BROOKS, Sarah Wells

    BROOKS, Sarah Wells. 18?? — 19??. U.S.Early Female Student. Studied from 1892 at Harvard Annex for women (soon Radcliffe College). Learned Sanskrit under ...

  • BROUGH, John

    BROUGH, John. Dundee 31.8.1917 — Bishop’s Stortford, near Cambridge 9.1. 1984. British (Scottish) Indologist. Professor in London and Cambridge. Son of ...

  • BROUGHTON, Thomas Duer

    BROUGHTON, Thomas Duer. 1778 — London 16.11.1835. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Rev. Thomas Broughton (Rector of St.Peter’s in Bristol) and ...

  • BROWN, Cecil Jermyn

    BROWN, Cecil Jermyn. Ipswich 1886 — 20.10.1945. British Teacher of English Language and Numis­matist in India. Son of Edgar Jermyn Brown and Annie Lovely. ...

  • BROWN, Charles Philip

    BROWN, Charles Philip. Calcutta, India 10.11.1798 — London 12.12.1884. British Civil Servant in India (1817-55) and Indologist, specialist of Telugu language. Son of Rev. ...

  • BROWN, George William

    BROWN, George William. Hartford co., Maryland 25.10.1870 — Hartford, CT (?) 4.12.1932. U.S. Missionary and Indologist. Son of a farmer in Hartford ...

  • BROWN, J. Coggin

    BROWN, John Coggin. West Auckland, co. Durham ?.10.1884 — 23.6.1962. British Geologist in India and Burma. Son of George Richard Brown and Eliza Bedlington. ...

  • BROWN, Nathan

    BROWN, Nathan. New Ipswich, NH 22.6.1807 — Yokohama 1.1.1885. Rev. U.S. Baptist Missionary in India and Japan. Son of Nathan Brown and Elizabeth Goldsmith. ...

  • BROWN, Percy

    BROWN, Percy. Birmingham 1872 (or Calcutta 22.11.1871) — Srinagar 22.3.1955. British Art Historian in India. Son of Joseph Henry Samsum Brown ...

  • BROWN, Thomas Richard

    BROWN, Thomas Richard. Whatton, Nottinghamshire 1791 — Southwark, West Sussex 1.9.1875. British Priest and a Self-Made Scholar. Son of Richard Brown of Cambridge. ...

  • BROWN, Truesdell Sparhawk

    BROWN, Truesdell Sparhawk. Philadelphia, PA 21.3.1906 — Houston, TX 13.1.1992. U.S. Classical Philologist and Historian, wrote studies on the historians of Alexander and ...

  • BROWN, W. Norman

    BROWN, William Norman. Baltimore, Md. 24.6.1892 — West Chester PA. 22.4.1975. U.S. Indologist. Son of —> G. W. Brown (1870–1932), through ...

  • BROWN, William

    BROWN, William. 1757/67? — 1837. British Civil Servant in India. Senior merchant in Madras in the 1810s, in 1817 decribed himself as “many ...

  • BROWN, William

    BROWN, William. 1??? — 18??. British Colonial Officer in India. Captain, of the Revenue Survey (mentioned in 1822/42), in Dehra Dun. In 1828 ...

  • BROWNE, Edward Granville.

    BROWNE, Edward Granville. Uley near Dursley, Gloucestershire 7.2.1862 — Cambridge 5.1.1926. British Oriental Scholar (mainly Persian, Turkish and Arabic, also Hindi-Urdu). Professor in ...

  • BROWNE, Gerald Michael
    BROWNE, Gerald Michael (mentioned both as Gerald M. and G. Michael). Detroit 13.12.1943 — Urbana, Ill. 24.8.2004. U.S. Philologist. Son ...
  • BROWNE, James

    BROWNE, James. 1744 — Patna 22.6.1792. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Joined Indian army in 1765, 1772 aide-de-camp of Warren Hastings. “Collector ...

  • BROWNE, John Frederick

    BROWNE, John Frederick. 1835? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Robert Browne. Studies at Exeter College, Oxford (Boden Scholarship of ...

  • BROŽOVÁ, Marie

    BROŽOVÁ, Marie. Prague 1.8.1897 — 19??. Czechoslovakian Student of IE Linguistics. Studies at Prague under Zubatý, Ph.D. there 1920/21. Then English translator. From ...

  • BRUCE, Charles

    BRUCE, Charles. Roncally, Bengal 13.10.1836 — Edinburgh 13.12.1920. Sir. British (Scottish) Indologist, then in Colonial Service. Son of Thomas Bruce, of ...

  • BRUCE, John

    BRUCE, John. Fife 1744/45 — Fife 16.4.1826. British (Scottish) Historian of the Colonial Period. Son of shipmaster Andrew Bruce (1716–1761) and Jean Squyre. Studies at Edinburgh, then Professor of Logic and ...

  • BRUCE, Richard Isaac

    BRUCE, Richard Isaac. 1840 — 29.4.1924. British (Irish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of Jonathan Bruce, a landowner, and ...

  • BRÜCKE, Ernst Wilhelm (von)

    BRÜCKE, Ernst Wilhelm (von). Berlin 6.7.1819 — Vienna 7.1.1892. German Physician and Physiologist in Austria, also interested in Phonetics

  • BRUGMANN, Karl

    BRUGMANN, Karl Friedrich Christian. Wiesbaden 16.3.1849 — Leipzig 29.6.1919. German Indo-Europaean Scholar. Professor in Leipzig. Until 1882 wrote his name as Brugman (with one ...

  • BRUHL, Odette

    BRUHL, Odette —> Odette MONOD-BRUHL

  • BRUIN, Cornelis de
    BRUIN, Cornelis de (Bruyn, C. De Bruijn). the Hague 1652 — Utrecht 1727. Dutch Painter and Traveller. Son of Jan de Bruin. In 1672-1693 he ...
  • BRUINING, Albertus

    BRUINING, Albertus. Pietersbierum, Friesland 2.7.1846 — ’s-Gravenhage 20.11.1919. Dutch Theologian, began as an Indologist. Son of Johannes Bruining, a minister, and Wiepkjen Peters. ...

  • BRUNE, Johannes H.

    BRUNE, Johannes H. Bochum 28.12.1883 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Roman Catholic. Matriculated in 1903 from Bochum’s Gymnasium. From 1903 ...

  • BRUNNER-LACHAUX, Helène
    BRUNNER-LACHAUX, Helène (née H. Lachaux). L’Hérault 20.5.1920 — Lausanne 27.3.2005. French Indologist. Studied first mathematics and physics, CAPES 1942, and taught them at school in 1942-62, ...
  • BRUNNER, Fernand
    BRUNNER, Fernand. Lausanne 8.10.1920 — Cortaillod, canton Neuchâtel 1.11.1991. Swiss Philosopher. Professor in Neuchâtel. Studies at Lausanne (licence ès lettres 1942) ...
  • BRUNNER, Linus

    BRUNNER, Linus. Woollen, Canton Aargau 7.3.1909 — St.Gallen 3.12.1987. Swiss Linguist. Son of Linus Brunner, a farmer.  Ph.D. 1936 Zürich. Professor ar Canton School in St.Gallen. Few have accepted ...

  • BRUNNHOFER, Hermann

    BRUNNHOFER, Gottlieb Hermann. Aarau 16.3.(21.3.?)1841 — Munich 28.10.1916. Swiss Indo-Iranian Scholar. Son of Gottlieb Brunnhofer, a knifesmith, and Elisabeth Obrist. After Gymnasium in Aarau, ...

  • BUCCA, Salvador
    BUCCA, Salvador (Salvatore Bucca). Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto near Messina in Sicily
    30.10.1920 — Buenos Aires 30.12.2005. Argentinian (Italian-born) Linguist interested in the Upanishads. ...
  • BUCHANAN-HAMILTON, Francis

    BUCHANAN-HAMILTON, Francis (until 1815 Francis Buchanan, then Francis Hamilton). Branziet, Callander, Pertshire 15.2.1762 — Callander 15.6.1829. British (Scottish) Physician in India, Traveller and Naturalist, ...

  • BUCHANAN, Claudius

    BUCHANAN, Claudius (born Claud Buchanan). Cambuslang near Glasgow 12.3.1766 — Broxbourne, Hertford­shire 9.2.1815. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son ...

  • BUCHER, Jakob

    BUCHER, Jakob. 18?? — 1???. Rev. German Missionary in South India. Working for Basel Mission in Dharwar and from 1890 in Mangalore as ...

  • BÜCHI, Ernst Carl

    BÜCHI, Ernst Carl. Aadorf, Thurgau 3.9.1914 — Löhningen, Schaffhausen 1.11.1981. Swiss Physical Anthropologist. Professor in Berlin. Grew up in Thurgau, school in Schaffhausen. Studies at Zürich, Ph.D. 1942 under ...

  • BÜCHLER, Pál

    BÜCHLER, Pál. Bácstóváros (Tovariševo in Serbian Vojvodina) 25.1.1877 — Târgu Mureş 7.7.1946. Hungarian (of Transylvania) Philologist and Translator interested in Sanskrit. Ph.D. 1907 ...

  • BUCK, Carl Darling

    BUCK, Carl Darling. Orland/Bucksport, Me. 2.10.1866 — Chicago, Ill. 8.2.1955 (or Bucksport?). U.S. Linguist (IE and Classical Scholar). Professor in Chicago. BUCK, Stuart H.

    BUCK, Stuart Henry. Attleboro, co. Bristol, MA 11.2.1911 — Lynchburg, VA 7.4.1997 (or 28.3.). U.S. Tibetologist and Mongolist. Son of Frederic Holden Buck (1875–1929) and Florence Hacket (1882–1979). Graduated ...

  • BUDMANI, Petar

    BUDMANI, Petar (Pero). Ragusa in Austrian Empire (now Dubrovnik) 27.10.1835 — Castelferretti near Ancona 27.12.1914. Croatian Serb, Slavic Linguist. Son of ...

  • BUGAULT, Guy

    BUGAULT, Guy. St.Coulomb, Brittany 17.7.1917 — Le Reincy (Seine-Saint Denis) 27.10.2002. French Indologist. Student of Lacombe. Taught at Université de Paris-X-Nanterre. In 1973-74 Lecturer, then Professor ...

  • BUGGE, Sophus

    BUGGE, Elseus Sophus. Larvik 5.1.1833 — Tønset 8.7.1907. Norwegian Linguist, mainly Scandinavian, but also IE, Anatolian and Etruscan Scholar. Professor in Christiania (Oslo). ...

  • BÜHLER, Georg

    BÜHLER, Johann Georg. Borstel bei Nienburg (Hannover) 19.7.1837 — Bodensee 8.4.1898. German Indologist in India (1863-80) and Austria. Professor in Vienna. Son of Rev. ...

  • BÜHLER, Michael

    BÜHLER, Johann Michael. 1817 — India 7.6.1854. German Indologist and Missionary in South India. From Adelburg in Württemberg. After several years of Sanskrit studies ...

  • BUHOT, Jean

    BUHOT, Henry Jean. Paris 13.8.1885 — Paris 5.9.1952. French Painter and Art Historian. The only child of painter Félix B. (1847–1898) and his English wife, Henriette Johnston. After school in ...

  • BUISKOOL, Herman

    BUISKOOL, Herman Eildert. Weeding, Drenthe 12.1.1884 — Leiden 11.8.1963. Dutch Indologist. Son of Hindrik Buiskool (1847–1917), a school director, and Albertina ...

  • BUITENEN, Johannes (Hans) Adrianus Bernardus van

    BUITENEN, Johannes (Hans) Adrianus Bernardus van (U.S. Van B.). the Hague 21.5.1928 — Champaign, Ill. 21.9.1979. Dutch Indologist in the U.S.A. ...

  • BULCKE, Camille

    BULCKE, Camille (Kamiel). Ramskapelle, Knokke-Heist, West Flanders 1.9.1909 — Delhi 17.8.1982. S.J. Belgian Missionary and Indologist (Hindi Scholar) in ...

  • BULIČ, Sergej Konstantinovič

    BULIČ, Sergej Konstantinovič. St.Petersburg (Vikip. Kazan) 27.8.(8.9.)1859 — Petrograd 15.4.1921. Russian Linguist. Professor in St.Petersburg. Born in a noble family originating from Kazan ...

  • BUNSEN, Christian Karl Josias

    BUNSEN, Christian Karl Josias (then Karl, Freiherr von Bunsen). Korbach, Waldeck 25.8.1791 — Bonn 28.11.1860. German Diplomat and Scholar. Son of ...

  • BURCH, George Bosworth

    BURCH, George Bosworth. Hartford, Conn. 12.7.1902 — 4.6.1973. U.S. Philosopher interested in Indian Thought. Son of George Washington Burch and Mary Bosworth, educated ...

  • BURCHARDI, Gustav

    BURCHARDI, Gustav. Flensburg 1866 — 19??. German Linguist. Ph.D. 1892 Halle. In 1910 visited the Isle of Man and was called Professor, in ...

  • BURG, Fritz

    BURG, Jacob Fritz. Berlin 27.3.1860 — 16.11.1928. German (Jew) Philologist (Germanist and Runologist)

  • BURGESS, Ebeneser

    BURGESS, Ebenezer. Grafton, Vermont 26.6.1805 — Newton Centre, Mass. 1.1.1870. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India, a Scholar of Marathi, Sanskrit and Indian Astronomy. Son ...

  • BURGESS, James

    BURGESS, James. Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire 14.8.1832 — Edinburgh 3.10.1916. British (Scottish) Indologist and Archaeologist in India. School at Dumfries, studies at Glasgow and Edinburgh. ...

  • BURGESS, May S

    BURGESS, May S. 18?? — 19??. Miss. Could she be the daughter of —> James B.?

    Publications: Translated from German to English Bühler & Zachariae on Navasāhasāṅkacarita, IA 36, 1907, ...

  • BURGHART, Richard

    BURGHART, Richard. U.S.A. 1944 — Heidelberg 1.1.1994, when 49. U.S. Anthropologist in Germany. B.A. 1966 Williams College, Mass., M.A., in political science, also ...

  • BÜRK, Albert

    BÜRK, Albert. 18?? — 19??. German or Austrian Indologist. No Indological diss. in Janert, not a member of D.M.G. In 1901/02 he was in Tübingen, ...

  • BURKHARD, Karl Friedrich

    BURKHARD, Karl Friedrich. Leipheim bei Ulm, Bavaria 2.9.1824 — Vienna 19.2.1893. German School-Teacher and Indologist in Austria. Son of ...

  • BURKITT, F. Crawford

    BURKITT, Francis Crawford. Marylebone, London 3.9.1864 — Cambridge 11.5.1935. British Theologian, Biblical and Syriac Scholar. Son of Crawford B. Educated at Harrow. Studied first mathematics at Cambridge (Trinity College), B.A. ...

  • BURLĂ, Vasile M

    BURLĂ, Vasile M. Opăiţeni (then Hungary) 6.2.1840 — Iaşi 8.1.1905. Romanian Classical and IE Scholar. Gymnasium in Cernăuţi. Studied Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit ...

  • BURLINGAME, Eugene Watson

    BURLINGAME, Eugene Watson. Albany, N.Y. 5.8.1876 — Albany 3.8.1932. U.S. Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Son of Eugene Burlingame (1847–1898) and Emma Patten ...

  • BURN, Richard

    BURN, Richard. L West Derby, Liverpool 1.2.1871 — Oxford 26.7.1947 (when 76). British Civil Servant in India, Historian of Islamic and Colonial India, ...

  • BURNELL, Arthur C.

    BURNELL, Arthur Coke. St.Briavels, Gloucestershire 11.7.1840 — West Stratton, Hampshire 12. or 16.10.1882. British Civil Servant and Indologist in ...

  • BURNES, Alexander

    BURNES, Alexander. Montrose, Angus 16.5.1805 — Kabul 2.11.1841. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer (Lieutenant-Colonel) and Traveller in India, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Son ...

  • BURNES, James

    BURNES, James. Montrose, Angus 12.2.1801 — London 19.9.1862. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Son of James BSon of James Burnes (1760–1852, provost and ...

  • BURNEY, Henry

    BURNEY, Henry. 27.2.1792 — at sea 4.3.1845. British Colonial Officer (Captain, 1834 Lieutenant-Colonel) and Diplomat in South-East Asia (Burma). Son of Richard Thomas ...

  • BURNOUF, Émile-Louis

    BURNOUF, Émile-Louis. Valognes (Manche) 25/26.8.1821 — Paris 1.7. or 15/16.1.1907. French Indologist and Classical scholar. Son of bailiff Charles Burnouf (1787–1859) and Aimée ...

  • BURNOUF, Eugène

    BURNOUF, Eugène. Paris 8.4. (or 12.8.?) 1801 — Paris 28.5.1852. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. Son of —> Jean-Louis Burnouf (1775–1844) ...

  • BURNOUF, Jean-Louis

    BURNOUF, Jean-Louis. Urville near Valognes (Manche) 14.9.1775 — Paris 8.5.1844. French Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Paris. Father of —> Eugène ...

  • BURRITT, Elihu

    BURRITT, Elihu. New Britain, Conn. 8.12.1810 — ibid. 6.3.1879. “The Learned Blacksmith”. U.S. Literate interested in Sanskrit. Son of an eccentric shoemaker-farmer. He ...

  • BURROW, Reuben

    BURROW, Reuben. Hoberley, near Shadwell, Leeds 30.12.1747 — Baxar, Bihar 7.6.1792. British Mathematician in India. “Son of a farmer, educated at Leeds. Became ...

  • BURROW, Thomas

    BURROW, Thomas. Westmoreland, Leck, North Lancashire 29.6.1909 — Kidlington, Oxfordshire 8.6.1986. British Indologist. Professor in Oxford. Son of Joshua ...

  • BURROWS, Lionel Burton

    BURROWS, Lionel Burton. Deposit, N.Y. 12.3.1883 — Kingsbridge area, Devon 13.10.1970. British (or U.S. in British Service?) Civil Servant in India. Son of ...

  • BURROWS, Stephen Montagu

    BURROWS, Stephen Montagu. Headington, Oxfordshire 26.12.1856 — Oxford 4.3.1935. Sir. British Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Montagu Burrows (1819–1905), Professor of Naval History at Oxford, and Mary Anna ...

  • BURT, Thomas Seymour

    BURT, Thomas Seymour. 1805 — Cotmandene, Dorking, Surrey 8/9.3.1890. British Colonial Officer in India. Possibly from Plymouth. Educated in 1821-23 at Addiscombe. From ...

  • BURTON-PAGE, John
    BURTON-PAGE, John Garrard. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex 19.9.1921 — Church Knowle, Dorset 13.6.2005. British Indologist (Sanskrit and Hindi Scholar and Historian). Music studies (horn) at Royal College of ...
  • BURTON, Richard

    BURTON, Richard Francis. Barnham House, Elstree, Hertfordshire 19.3.1821 — Trieste 20.10.1890 (Dingle & Garrett: born in Torquay, Devon, Penzer explains: born ...

  • BURY, John B.

    BURY, John Bagnell. Clontibret, co. Monaghan, Ireland 16.10.1861 — Rome 1.6.1927. British (Irish) Classical Scholar and Historian. Professor in Cambridge. Son ...

  • BUSCHARDT, Leo

    BUSCHARDT, Leo Maxim. Copenhagen 24.8.1906 — Copenhagen 11.3.1966. Danish Indologist. Librarian in Copenhagen. Son of Henrik Christian Matthias Buschardt (1874–1952), a mason and ...

  • BUSCHMANN, Eduard
    BUSCHMANN,  Johann Carl Eduard. Magdeburg 14.2.1805 — Berlin 21.4.1880. German Linguist. Son of a craftsman. After school in Magdeburg studies of Arabic, Persian and especially Sanskrit at Berlin (Bopp), then ...
  • BUSHELL, Stephen Wootton

    BUSHELL, Stephen Wootton. Ash-next-Sandwich, Kent 28.7.1844 — Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex 19.9.1908. British Physician in China, a Sinologist and early Specialist of ...

  • BUSLAEV, Fëdor Ivanovič
    BUSLAEV, Fëdor Ivanovič. Kerensk (now Vadinsk in obl. Penza) 13.(25.)5.1818 — Ljubino near Moscow 31.7.(12.8.)1897. Russian IE and Slavonic Linguist. Educated in Kerensk and Penza. ...
  • BUSSAGLI, Mario

    BUSSAGLI, Mario. Siena 23.9.1917 — Frosinone, Lazio 14.8.1988. Italian Art Historian. Professor in ...

  • BUSSON, Andrée
    BUSSON, Andrée. Paris 25.2.1910 — Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) 9.12.1985. Mme. French Art Historian. Joined Société asiatique in 1949. In 1978 in Paris. In 2019 described as ...
  • BUTLER, John (Captain)

    BUTLER, John. India? 1843? — Lak Nuti near Gologhat, Assam 7.1.1876, when 33. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of the elder —> ...

  • BUTLER, John (Colonel)

    BUTLER, John. Lip hot, Hampshire 1809 — Hampshire 22.5.1874. British Colonial Officer in India. Served in India in 1837-51 in Bengal Native Infantry. ...

  • BUTLIN, Raymond Thomas

    BUTLIN, Raymond Thomas. Fishley, Middlesex 6.2.1907 — Knysma, Western Cape, South Africa ...

  • BUTTERWORTH, Allan

    BUTTERWORTH, Alan. Southport, Lancashire 25.7.1864 — London 25.5.1937. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry Butterworth and Mary Jane Schofield. Educated at ...

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