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BABBITT, Irving. Dayton, Ohio 2.8.1865 — 15.7.1933. U.S. Romance Philologist interested in Pāli. Parents Edwin Dwight B. ...

BABINGTON, Benjamin Guy. London 5.3.1794 — London 5/8.4.1865. British Physician interested in Tamil Language and ...

BACHHOFER, Ludwig. Munich 30.6.1894 — Carmel CA 1976. German Art Historian in the U.S.A. Professor in Chicago. ...

BACOT, Jacques. St.-Germain-en-Laye (Indre) 4.7.1877 — Paris 25.6.1965. French Traveller and Tibetologist. Born in a ...

BADEN POWELL, Baden Henry (born Baden Henry Powell). 23.8.1841 — 2.1.1901. British Colonian Servant in India. Son ...

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. Monmouth, Indiana 27.4.1849 — Lucknow 20.11.1891. U.S. Missionary in India. Educated at Simpson ...

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

BAIER —> BAYER.

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

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. Ambala 8.9.1872 ...

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

BAIN, Francis William. 1863 — 1940. U.S. author who lived long time in ...

BAINBRIDGE, R. B. 18?? — 19??. British Ethnologist concentrating on the Saoria tribe (also ...

BAINES, Jervoise Athelstan. Bluntisham, Hunts 17.10.1847 — 26.11.1925. Sir. British Civil Servant in India and an Ethnologist. Son of ...

BAKE, Arnold Adriaan. Hilversum 19.5.1899 — London 8.10.1963. Dutch Indologist in India and in the U.K. School at Hilversum and in 1912-18 in Haarlem. He planned ...

BAKTAY, Ervin (Erwin, to 1925 Baktay-Gottesmann). Dunaharaszti 24.6.1890 — Budapest 7.5.1963 ...

BAL’MONT, Konstantin Dmitrievič. Gumnišči, Vladimir g. 15(3).6.1867 — Noisy-le-Grand near Paris 24.12.1942 (not 1943). Russian Symbolist Poet, ...

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

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

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

BALFOUR, Francis. Fife 1744? — Fernie estate, Fife 7.5.1818. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Son of Arthur ...

BÁLINT-ILLYÉS, Gábor Szentkátolnai. Szentkátolna 13.3.1844 ...

BALL, Valentine. Dublin 14.7.1843 — Dublin 15.6.1895. Irish Scientist in India. Son of the naturalist Robert B. ...

BALLANTYNE, James Robert. Kelso, Teriotdale 13.12.1813 — London 18.2.1864. British (Scottish) Indologist in India. Son ...

BALLHATCHET, Kenneth A. Bristol 29.11.1922 — 13.3.1995. British Historian of South Asia. Professor in London. Educated at Clifton College in Bristol and from ...

BALLIN, Louis. 18?? — 1???. Frenchman apparently knowing Sanskrit. Doctor. “Ancien sous-inspecteur des forêts”, in 1897 living ...

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

BALLY, Charles-Louis. Genève 4.2.1865 — Genève 10.4.1947. Swiss Linguist and Greek scholar. Son of a teacher, lost ...

BĂNĂŢEANU, Vlad. Timişoara 22.8.1900 — Bucharest 8.11.1963. Romanian IE and Classical Scholar, Armenologist and Indologist. ...

BANESS, Joshua Frederick. Delhi 1830 — 18?? (death registered in Simla 1883-1906). ...

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

BANHA, Manuel. 1??? — 1???. Fr. Franciscan Missionary in India, probably in the 17th century, mentioned as ...

BANNERTH, Ernst. Eilenburg, Sachsen 13.10.1895 — Cairo 29.4.1976. German Urdu and Islamic Scholar and Catholic priest. Educated ...

BAPTISTA, Manuel. 1??? — 1???. Franciscan Missionary in India in the 17th century, author of a Konkani catechism. Apparently also an architect and ...

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

BARANNIKOV, Aleksej Petrovič. Zolotonoša, Poltavskaja obl. 25.2. (9.3.)1890 — 4.9.1952. Russian (Ukrainian) Indologist. Son of ...

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

BARBORKA, Geoffrey Avery. Chicago 6.9.1897 — 30.9.1982. U.S. Theosophist. Son of Vaclav B., a Theosophis with Czechoslovakian origin, grew up ...

BARBOSA, Duarte. Lisbon c. 1480? — Cebu, Philippines 1.5.1521. Portuguese Traveller in the East. Son of Diogo B. He came to India as ...

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

BARDELLI, Giuseppe. Branciolino, Pieve S. Stefano, Arezzo 10.4.1815 — Florence 2.10.1865. Abbate. Italian Indologist and ...

BARDÓN Y GÓMEZ, Lázaro. Inicio 8.6.1810 — Madrid 9.6.1897. Spanish Priest and Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Born in the province of Léon. ...

BAREAU, André. Saint Maudé (Seine) 31.12.1921 — 2.3.1993. French Buddho­logist. Professor in Paris. Son of an accountant. Studied at Paris (under ...

BARIĆ, Henrik. Dubrovnik 28.1.1888 — Beograd 3.4.1959. Yugoslavian (Croatian?) Linguist. Studies at Graz and Vienna. Ph.D. 1912 Vienna. From 1920 PD, then Professor ...

BARIGUE DE FONTAINIEU —> BARRIGUE DE FONTAINIEU

BARNETT, Lionel David. Liverpool 21.10.1871 — 28.1.1960. British Indologist. Son of Baron B. and Adelaide, ...

BARR, Kaj. Copenhagen 26.6.1896 — 4.1.1970. Danish Iranian Scholar. Professor in Copenhagen. Son of a ...

BARRETO, Júlio Francisco António Adeodato. Margão 3.12.1905 — Coimbra 6.8.1937. Portuguese ...

BARRETT, Douglas. 1917 — 1992. British Art Historian of India. Studies at Oxford. In 1939-46 Major in British Artillery. From 1947 in British Museum, first working ...

BARRETT, LeRoy Carr. Cape Girardeau, Missouri 11.3.1877 — 16.7.1960. U.S. Classical Scholar and Indologist. Studies at Washington and Lee (A.B. 1897) ...

BARRIGUE DE FONTAINIEU, Gérard Hilaire Prosper Emmanuel Hippolyte, Baron, 1895 Marquis de Fontainieu. Marmande, Lot et Garonne 26.7.1863 — ...

BARROS, João de. Viseu (?), Portugal 1496? — São Lourenço 20.10.1570. Portuguese Humanist, Civil Servant, and Contemporary ...

BARROW, George. Mayfair 22.10.1806 — 1876. Sir, 2nd Baronet

BARSTOW, Arthur Edward (“Bustling Bill”). Edinburgh 17.3.1888 — near Layang Layang, Malaya 28.1.1942. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer ...

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 B., and protestant mother, ...

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

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

BARTHOLD, W. —> BARTOL’D, V. V.

BARTHOLOMAE, Friedrich Christian Leonhard. Forsthaus ...

BARTHOUX (Couyat-Barthoux), Jules-J. 1881 — 1965. French Geologist and Archaeologist. Born as Jules Couyat. Worked as geologist in Maroc, Egypt and Arabia, collaborated ...

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

BARTOLI, Emilio. 2.10.1861 — 19??. Italian Indologist and Translator of Sanskrit Literature. Student of Kerbaker. ...

BARTOLI, Matteo Giulio. Albona (now Labin in Croatia), Istria 22.11.1873 — Torino 23.1.1946. Italian Lin­guist. Ph.D. Vienna. Also studied in Paris. After a ...

BARTUS, Theodor. Lassan 30.1.1858 — Berlin 28.1.1941. German, Assistant to the Berlin Ethnological Museum, participated in all four Prussian Turfan expeditions 1902–14. Son ...

BARUCH, Willy. Herford 1900 — ?.3.1954. German (Jew) Indologist, Sinologist, Buddhist and Central Asian Scholar. Studies at Berlin and Leipzig, student ...

BASHAM, Arthur Llewellyn. Loughton, Essex 24.5.1914 — Calcutta 27.1.1986. British Indologist in Australia. Professor in ...

BASSOLS DE CLIMENT, Mariano. Figueras 12.12.1903 — Barcelona 20.10.1973. Spanish Classical Scholar, Professor of Latin in Barcelona, where he also taught Sanskrit. Studies ...

BASTIAN, Adolf. Bremen 26.6.1826 — Port-of-Spain, Trinidad 2.2.1905. Catholic German Anthropo­logist, Psychologist, and Traveller, a pioneer of South-east Asian studies. Born in a ...

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

BATAILLARD, Paul Théodore. Paeis 23.3.1816 — Paris 1.3.1894. French Archivist and Gypsy ...

BATE, John Drew. Plymouth 1836 — 26.1.1924. British Missionary, Priest, and Hindi Scholar. Educated at Regent’s Park College, London. Member ...

BATSCH, Friedrich. 182? — 1907. Rev. German ...

BAUDIŠ, Josef. Prague 27.8.1883 — Bratislava 4.5.1933. Czech IE and Celtic Linguist

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

BAUDRY, Frédéric. Rouen 25.7.1818 — Paris 2.1.1885. French IE Scholar. Librarian in Paris. Son of a book ...

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

Publications:

BAULEZ, Marius-Joseph-Aimé. Marseille 12.9.1842 — Bangalore 29.4.1906. French Missionary in India. ...

BAUMGARTEN, Michael. Haseldorf, Holstein 25.3.1812 — Rostock 21.7.1889. German Lutheran TheologianBAUMGARTNER, Alexander

BAUMGARTNER, Alexander. Sankt Gallen 27.6.1841 — Luxembourg 5.9. 1910. S.J. Swiss Jesuit Scholar and Indologist. ...

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

BAUNACK, Paul Theodor. Trebsen bei GrimmaBAUSANI, Alessandro

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

BAYER, Theophilus (Gottlieb) Siegfried. Königsberg ...

BAYLEY, Edward Clive. St.Petersburg 17.10.1821 ...

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

BAZIN-FOUCHER, Émile Eugénie Marguerite Virginie (“Ena”). Chesnay (Yvelines) 7.10.1889 — 30.1.1952. ...

BEAL, Samuel. Devonport 27.11.1825 — Greens Norton 20.8.1889. British Priest, Sinologist and Buddhist Scholar. Although a priest, he was no missionary ...

BEAMAN, George Burnham. Cincinnati, Ohio 1.4.1870 — 12.2.1942. U.S. Student of Indology in Germany. Son of the rev. Edmund B., a ...

BEAMES, John. Greenwich 21.6.1837 — Clevedon, Somerset 24.5.1902. British Civil servant and Indologist in India, a ...

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

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

BECK, Horace Courthope. London 13.11.1873 — Chichester 7.2.1941. British Archaeologist, a pioneer of ...

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

BECKH, Christoph Eugen Hermann. Nürnberg 4.5.1875 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

BELENICKIJ, Aleksandr Markovič. Ljubino, Byelo Russia 24.3./6.4.1904 — 15.6.1993. Russian Archaeologist, Specialist of Sogdian Art. Son of a ...

BELIGATTI, Giovanni —> CASSIANO DA MACERATA

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

BELL, Cyril William Bowdler (from 1892 C. W. Bowdler). Hull 1839 — 1918. ...

BELL, Harold Wilberforce —> H. WILBERFORCE-BELL

BELL, Harry Charles Purvis. India ...

BELLASIS, Augustus Fortunatus. India 1822 — 1872. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Lt.-Col. Daniel Hutchins B. ...

BELLEW, Henry Walter. Nusserabad (Nasirabad, Ajmer dt.) 30.8.1834 — Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire 26.7.1892. British Physician and ...

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

BELLONI-FILIPPI, Ferdinando. Buti near Pisa 7/17.7.1877 — Firenze 24.1. 1960. Italian Indologist. Professor in Florence and ...

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 ...

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

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

BENARY, Karl Albert Agathon. Kassel 17.1.1807 ...

BENDA, Elimar. Freiburg im Br. 13.8.1890 — 1976. German. Dr.iur. 1913 Jena. Further studies of comparative linguistics, Germanistics ...

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

BENDER, Ernest. Buenos Aires 2.1.1919 — Philadelphia 18.4.1996. U.S. Indo­logist. Professor in Philadelphia. Born in Argentina ...

BENDER, Harold Herman. Martinsburg, W.Va. 20.4.1882 — 15.8.1951. U.S. IE, Indo-Iranian, and Lithuanian Scholar. Professor in ...

BENFEY, Theodor. Nörten bei Göttingen 28.1.1809 — Göttingen 26.6.1881. German Indologist and IE Scholar. Professor in ...

BENIGNY, Gyula (Julius). 1890 — 1966. Hungarian IE Linguist. Ph.D. In the 1930s eo. Professor of ...

BÉNISTI (Monié-Bénisti, née Sarfati), Mireille. Algier 10.10.1909 — 11.12. 1993. French Art Historian ...

BENMOHEL, Nathan Lazarus. Hamburg 26.5.1803 — Dun Laoghaire 22.12.1869. German Jew in Ireland. Son of Rabbi Elieza Lazi. ...

BENNETT, Adrienne A. G. 1??? — 1???. Mrs. Studied mathematics and physics, then changed to painting. Lived 14 ...

BENNETT, Charles Henry Allan (Ananda Metteyya Thera). London 8.12.1872 — London 9.3.1923. British Bauddha. Son of an engineer, ...

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

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

BEREZOVSKIJ, Mihail Mihailovič. 1848 — 1912. Russian Traveller in Central Asia. Studied zoology at St.Petersburg. From 1876 repeatedly ...

BERG, Cornelis Christian. Rotterdam-West 18.12.1900 — Leiden 25.6.1990. Dutch South-East Asian Scholar. Professor in ...

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

BERGH VAN EYSINGA, Gustaaf Adolf van den. ’s-Gravenhage 27.6.1874 — Bloemendaal 26.5.1957. Dutch Protestant Theologian ...

BERGMAN, Folke. Stockholm 29.8.1902 — Stockholm (?) 22.5.1946. Swedish Central Asian Archaeologist. Participated in Sven Hedin’s Chinese expedition ...

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

BERGMANN, Frédéric-Guillaume (Friedrich Wilhelm). Strasbourg 9.2.1812 — Stras­bourg 13.11.1887. French (Alsatian) Linguist and Philologist. Professor in Strasbourg. Studies of theology at Paris, of ...

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

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

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

Publications: “Attendibilita del commento di Nīlakaṇṭha al Mahābhārata”, RSO ...

BERNARD, Theos Casimir Hamati. L.A. 10.12.1908 — Kosar, Pakistan 1947. U.S. Bauddha and Yogi. Son of Glen Agassiz ...

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

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

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

BERNHARD, Franz. Schweidnitz (Świdnica) in Silesia 31.5.1931 — Mustang/Nepal 5.9. 1971. German Indologist. Professor in Hamburg. ...

BERNHEIMER, Carlo. Livorno 1877 — 1966. Italian (Jewish) Indologist and Palaeographist. From Leghorn, studies at Bologna ...

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

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

BERNOULLI, Johann. Basel 4.11.1744 — Berlin-Köpemick 13.7.1807. Swiss Scientist interested in India. Born in the family of famous ...

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

BERNSTEIN, Georg Heinrich. Kospeda near Jena 12.1.1787 —Lauban, Silesia (now Lubań, Poland) 5.4.1860. German Orientalist, mainly a Syriac ...

BERRIZ DO SEIXO, Aureliano Julio. 18?? — 19??. Spanish. Assistant Professor of Sanskrit at Madrid 1881-83 (before Gelabert y Gordiola). Still ...

BERTHELOT, Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin. Paris 25.10.1827 — Paris 18.3.1907. French Chemist, famous for his work on Organic ...

BERTHOLET, Alfred Robert Felix. Basel 9.11.1868 — Münsterlingen 24.8.1951. Swiss Reformed Theologian and Scholar of Comparative Religion in ...

BERTRAND, François-Marie, l’abbé. Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne) 26.10. ...

BESANT, Annie (née Wood). London 1.10.1847 — Adyar (Madras) 19.9.1933. British Theosophist. Daughter of William Page Wood and ...

BESCHI, Constantino Gioseffo Eusebio (Constanzo B., Constantinus Beschius, Vîra-mâmunivar). Castiglione delle Stiviere near Mantua 8.11.1680 — ...

BESKROVNYJ, Vasilij Matveevič. v Šejkovke, Harkovskaja obl. 24.5. (6.6.)1908 — Moscow 1.4.1978. Russian (Ukrainian?) Indologist, specialist ...

BESSE, Léon (Leo). 27.3.1853 — 19??. Rev. S.J. French Jesuit Missionary and Historian in India. Joined the S.J. in 1881. Teacher ...

BETH, Ali. Almelo 1911 — 1989. Ms. Dutch Indologist. Daughter of H. J. E. Beth, a teacher, and Hillegje de ...

BETTEI, Vittorio. Padova 15.9.1859 (or 1860?) — 19??. Italian Indologist and Classical Scholar. Teacher (“professor”) of ...

BEVERIDGE, Annette Susannah (née Akroyd). Stourbridhe, Worcestershire 13.12.1842 — London 27.3.1929. British Oriental (Persian and Eastern Turkish) Scholar. ...

BEVERIDGE, Henry. 1799 — 1863. The Elder. British Lawyer and Historian of Colonial India. Father of —> Henry B. the younger. Advocate.

Publications: Comprehensive history of India, civil, militia and social; from the first landing of ...

BEVERIDGE, Henry. Scotland 9.2.1837 — London 8.11.1929. British Historian of Mughal and Colonial India. Son of the elder ...

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

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

Publications: diss. Das Nominalkompositum im Aitareyabrāmaṇa und in den Gṛhyasūtren (Âsvalāyana-, Gobhila- und Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra). MS. of 57 p. Bonn 1923, specimen ...

BEYTHAN, Hermann. Teichel bei Rudolstadt, Thüringen 29.5.1875 — 1945?. German Missionary and Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Son ...

BEZZENBERGER, Adalbert. Kassel 14.4.1851 — Königsberg 31.10.1922. German IE scholar. Professor in Königsberg. Son of the Germanist scholar ...

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

BIANCHI, Ugo. Cavriglia, Arezzo 13.10.1922 — Firenzuola 14.4.1995. Italian Scholar of Iranian Religion. Studies of classical ...

BICKEL, Gustav Wilhelm Hugo. Kassel 7.7.1838 — Wien 25.1.1906. German Orientalist (Semitic Scholar) in Austria. ...

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

BIDDULPH, Charles Hubert. Abu, Rajasthan 28.7.1898 — 11/16.10.1966. British Engineer and Numismatist in India. Educated ...

BIDDULPH, John. Ledbury 25.7.1840 — Gray Court, London 31.12.1921. British Colonial Officer and Anthropologist in India. ...

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

BIESE, Yrjö Moses Jalmari. Helsinki 4.1.1903 ...

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

BINGLEY, Alfred Horsford. Cranleigh, Surrey 28.5.1865 — Surrey 20.4.1944. Sir. British Colonial Officer. Son of Peregrine Taylor B., ...

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

BIOT, Jean Baptiste. Paris 21.4.1774 — Paris 3.2.1862. French Historian of Science, especially Astronomy. Son of a treasury ...

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 Christopher Molesworth. Belgaum, India 8.12.1832 — Ealing 28.6.1917. British Physician and Botanist in India interested in ...

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

BLACKADER, Adam. 17?? — 1807?. British Physician in India. Surgeon of Presidency of ...

BLAKISTON, John Francis. 21.3.1882 — 8.1.1965. British Archaeologist. Son of John Rochfort Bl. and Georgina Helen Cubbitt, educated at ...

BLAND, Nathaniel (birh Nath. Crumpe). Liverpool 3.2.1803 — Homburg-les-Bains 10.8.1865. British Oriental (Persian) Scholar. Son of ...

BLANFORD, William Thomas. London 7.10.1832 — London 23.6.1905. British Geologist and Zoologist in India. Son of William Bl., ...

BLAQUIERE, William Coates. 1759 — Calcutta 14.8.1853. In India. Son of Jacques/Jacob Bl. Came to India with his merchant father in 1777. He ...

BLATT, Gustaw (Gerszon). Jarosław 15.2.1858 — Lwów (Lviv) 17.9.1916. Polish Linguist (IE and Slavic). Studies of classical and ...

BLATT, Heinrich. Steinbach am Glan 10.3.1894 — 1.4.1949. German Indologist. Librarian in Würzburg. ...

BLATTER, Edelbert (or Ethelbert). Romanshorn, Appenzell 15.12.1874 — Pune 26.5.1934. S.J. Swiss Catholic Missionary Scholar in India. School ...

BLAU, August. 1858 — 11.7.1926. German Indologist. Librarian in Berlin. “Mediohusanus.” Studies at Jena, 1883 Ph.D. ...

BLAU, Ernst Otto Friedrich Hermann. Nordhausen 21.4.1828 — Odessa 26.2.1879. German Diplomat ...

BLAVATSKY, Helena Petrovna (née Hahn, Russian Jelena Petrovna Blavatskaja, née Gan). Ekaterinoslav 12.8.1831 — London 9.5. 1891. Russian ...

BLEECK, Arthur Henry. Westbury, Wiltshire 18.5.1829 — Kensington 27.1.1877. British Orientalist. known of his remarkable linguistic talent (but ...

BLEEKER, Claas Jouco. Beneden Knijpe, Schoterland, Friesland 12.9.1898 — Amsterdam 5.5.1983. Dutch Historian of Religion. Son ...

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

BLIN, Amédée. 1799? — 18??. French Colonial Officer. Still in Paris, he had ...

BLOCH, Alfred. Basel 18.4.1915 — Basel 11.7.1983. Swiss Indologist, IE and Semitic Scholar. Professor in Basel. ...

BLOCH, Ernst Theodor. Christiansfeld, Schleswig (now ...

BLOCH, Jules. Paris 1.5.1880 — Sèvres (Seine-et-Oise) 29.11.1953. French Indologist ...

BLOCHET, Gabriel Joseph Edgar. Bourges 12.12.1870 — Paris 5.9.1937. French Oriental (Arabic ...

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

BLOMBERG, Carl Johan. Ljusdal, Hälsingland 29.5.1838 — Härnösand 15.3.1890. Swedish Schoolteacher interested in Sanskrit. Teacher in Härnösand. Son of a mayor. ...

BLONAY, Godefroy Jean Henry Louis de

BLOOMFIELD, Leonard. Chicago 1.4.1887 — New Haven CT 18.4.1949. U.S. Linguist. Professor in Columbus, Chicago, and ...

BLOOMFIELD, Maurice (born Blumenfeld). Bielitz, Austrian Silesia (now in Poland) 23.2.1855 — San Francisco CA 13.6.1928. ...

BLUMHARDT, James Fuller. Bengal 1844? — 10.12.1922. British Indologist (NIA Scholar). M.A. First in I.C.S. in ...

BLUNT, Edward Arthur Henry. Mauritius 14.3.1877 — 29.5.1941. Sir. British ...

BLUNT, James Tillyer. 1765/67 — 20.10.1834. British Officer in India, visited and described Delhi. Son of Richard Tillyer ...

BOAKE, William John Slade. Colombo ...

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

BOCARRO, Antonio. Abrante (or Lisbon?) 1594? — Goa 1643?. Portuguese Historian and Geographer. Son of New Christian ...

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

BODDING, Paul Olaf. Gjøvik 2.11.1865 — Odense 25.9.1938. Rev. Norwegian Missionary and Munda Scholar in India, lived long time among ...

BODE, Mabel Kate Haynes (née Haynes). 28.10.1864 — Shaftesbury, Dorset 20.1.1922. British Indologist (Pāli scholar). ...

BODEN, Joseph. 17?? — Lisbon 21.11.1811. British Colonial Officer. Founder of the famous Boden chair of Sanskrit ...

BOEHLING, Georg. Rodenberg, Kreis Rinteln 28.10.1854 — Hannover 3.6.1912. German Student of IE Linguistics. Studies at Göttingen, ...

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

BOGLE, George. Daldowie on Clyde 26.11.1746 — Calcutta 3.4.1781. British (Scots) Traveller and Diplomat. Youngest son of ...

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

BOGOSLOVSKIJ, Vasilij Alekseevič. Moscow 20.1.1932 — 25.4.1986. Russian Tibetologist. Son of a public servant. Studies at the Hist. Faculty of Moscow University, graduated 1954. Kand. ist. ...

BOHLEN, Peter von. Wüppels, Jeverland 13.3.1796 — Halle 6.2.1840. German Indologist and Orientalist. Professor in ...

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

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

BÖHTLINGK, Otto Nikolaus von (Russian Otto Nikolaevič Betlingk).

BOISACQ, Émile. Namur 26.11.1865 — Ixelles 2.6.1945. Belgian Linguist and Classical Scholar. Educated in Namur, then studies ...

BOISEN, Lars Nannestad. Vesterborg 8.2.1803 — Ibid. 22.4.1875. Danish Priest and Theologian interested in Sanskrit and Oriental ...

BOISSEROLLE-BOISVILLIERS, Aurèle-Jean de. Paris 3.9.1764 — Sumène, Gard 1.2.1829. French General, apparently interested in Sanskrit. Son of a civil servant, Count de B., ...

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

BOLLENSEN, Friedrich. Rossdorf, Kreis Göttingen 12.1.1809 — Wiesbaden 29.2.1896. German Indologist in Russia. Son of ...

BOLLER, Johann Anton. Krems an ...

BOLLING, Frederik Andersen (Friederic B.). 16?? — 1685. Norwegian Traveller in India. Born in Norway, son of ...

BOLLING, George Melville. Baltimore 13.4.1871 — Princeton N.J. 1.6.1963. U.S. Greek Scholar and Indologist. Professor ...

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

BOMFORD, Trevor. Bembridge, Isle of Wight 18.11.1849 — India 21.12.1929. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Samuel ...

BOMPAS, Cecil Henry. London 31.5.1868 — 19??. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry Mason B. (barrister, d. 1909) and Rachel Henrietta ...

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

BONN, Gisela (nom-de-plume of Gisela Döhrn). Elberfeld 22.9.1909 — Stuttgart 11.10.1996. German Journalist. Daughter of a teacher. From 1929 studied Musicology, Theatre, ...

BONSEN, Fritz, pseudonym for —> A. HILLEBRANDT.

BOPP, Franz. Mainz 14.9.1791 — Berlin 23.10.1867. German Indologist and Lin­guist. Professor in Berlin. Born ...

BOR, Norman Loftus. Tramore, County Waterford 2.5.1893 — London 22.12.1972. Irish Botanist

BORÉ, Eugène. Angers 15.8.1809 — Paris 3.5.1878. French Orientalist, especially Armenian Scholar. Son of an official, educated ...

BORECKÝ, Jaromír. Budweis (České Budějovice) 6.8.1869 — Praha 8.5.1951. Czech Poet, Translator and Librarian, listed as an Oriental scholar by ...

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 —> J.B. ...

BORGSTRØM, Carl Hjalmar. Kristiania (Oslo) 12.10.1909 — Oslo 14.9.1986. Norwegian Celtic and IE Linguist. Professor in Oslo. ...

BORK, Ferdinand A. Forsthaus bei Königsbruch/Kr. Tuchel 26.11.1871 — Benhausen 28.2.1962. German Scholar of Ancient Near East, ...

BORKOWSKI, Aleksander (Leszek) Dunin (Dunin B., Al.). Gródek 11.1.1811 — Lemberg (Lwów) 30.11.1896. Count. Polish Politician, Poet and Author, who translated Bhartṛhari’s poems ...

BORROW, George Henry. East Dereham, Norfolk 5.7.1803 — Lowestoft, Suffolk 26.7.1881. British ...

SCALABRINO BORSANI, Giuseppina (or G. Borsani Scalabrino). Milano 9.5.1910 — 22.2.1991. Italian Indologist. Professor in ...

BORTOLAZZI, Bortolo Maria. Bassano (Veneto) 1807 — 8.1.1879. Italian interested in Sanskrit. Of a Venetian noble family living in Bassano. No biography is ...

BOSCH I GIMPERA, Pere. Barcelona 22.3.1891 — Ciudad de México 9.10.1974. Spanish Archaeologist and IE Scholar in ...

BOSCH, Frederik David K

BOSWELL, John Alexander Corrie. India 26.10.1835 — Kensington, London 6.1.1872. British Colonial Civil Servant in India. Son ...

BÖTTICHER, P. —> LAGARDE, Paul de.

BOUCHET, Jean Venant. 1655 — 1732. S.J. French Missionary in Thailand and India. First in Thailand, when ...

BOUDA, Karl Ernst. Hamburg 10.2.1901 — Erlangen/Nürnberg? 31.7.1979. German Linguist and Caucasologist. PD 1936 Berlin. From 1942 ...

BOULNOIS, Jean Raymond Paul. 1904 — Philippeville, Algeria 1956. French Physician interested in India. Dr.Med. 1928 Bordeaux. ...

BOUQUET, Alan Coates. 24.5.1884 — Cambridge 1976. Rev. British Scholar of Religion. Studies at Cambridge: B.A. 1905, ...

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

BOURQUIN, Auguste Ali. Sonvilier, Bern 8.4.1848 — Denver 14.1.1928. Swiss Protestant Priest ...

BOWDEN, Ernest Monnington. Rochford, Herefordshire bapt. 17.7.1859 — Ramsgate 3.4.1904. British Author and Inventor (

BOWER, Hamilton St.Clair. Portsea Island, Hampshire 1.9.1858 — North Berwick, East Lothian 5.3.1940. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial ...

BOWER, Henry. Madras 1812 — Palayankottah 1885. Rev. Anglo-Indian Missionary in South India. D.D. After Vepery Seminary worked as Catechist of Wesleyan Missionary ...

BOWLES, Charles (then Charles Bowles Shakespear). Leicestershire 1811 — 1899.

BOWREY (Bowry), Thomas. 1650? — 1?.7.1713. British Sea Captain in the East. In India and South-East Asia ...

BOWRING, Lewin Bentham. Hackney, London 15.7.1824 — Torquay, Devon 14.1.1910. British Civil Servant in India. Son of ...

BOXBERGER, Robert. Gotha 28.5.1836 — Stadtsulza 30.3.1890. German Literate interested in Sanskrit. Son of a fireplace-maker, gymnasium ...

BOXER, Charles Ralph. Sandown Isle of Wight 8.4.1904 — St.Albans, Hertfordshire 27.4.2000. BOXWELL, John

BOXWELL, John. Butlerstown, co. Wexford 31.5.1838 — Dacca 15.5.1891. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Son of ...

BOYD, Palmer. Simla, India 29.9.1840 — 1875. British Indologist. Son of the lieutenant-general Mossom Boyd ...

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

BOYLE, John Archibald. 1845? — India 9.2.1875. British Civil Servant in South ...

BRACHET, Benjamin. 18?? — 1???. French Linguist. In 1871 he was a repetiteur at the É.P.H.É.

Publications: Prières antèhistoriques. Œuvres de Koutsa et Hirayastoupa. Trad. du sanscrit védique en vers fr. et accompagnées de notes sur ...

BRADKE, Peter von. St.Petersburg 27.6.1853 — Giessen 7.3.1897. German (Livonian) Indologist. Son of Georg Friedrich ...

RADLEY, W. H. 18?? — 1???. British Physician in India. Dr.med. Assistant Surgeon (1837). In 1840 put on special duty in Nizam’s army, in 1846 ...

BRANDENSTEIN, Wilhelm. Salzburg 23.10.1898 — Graz 1.12.1967. Austrian Indo-Iranian and Indoeuropean Scholar. Professor in Graz. ...

BRANDES, Carl Edvard Cohen. Copenhagen 21.10.1847 — Copenhagen 20.12.1931. Danish Journalist ...

BRANDES, Jan Laurens Andries. Rotterdam 13.1.1857 — Batavia 26.6.1906. Dutch Indonesian Philologist ...

BRANDI, Mario. Trieste 11.12.1891 — 1943/44?. Italian, probably a Theosophist, son of Salvatore Brandi and Elisa Iacchia. ...

BRANDRETH, Joseph Edward Lyall. Liverpool ...

BRANFILL, Brydges Robinson. Upminster, Essex 22.11.1834 (or 1833?) — Billericay, Essex ...

BRASSAI, Sámuel. Torockó (now Rimetea in Romania) or Torockószentgyörgy 15.6.1797 or 13.2.1800 — ...

BRAUNHOLTZ, Gustav Ernst Karl. Cambridge 19.3.1887 — 21.4.1967. British ...

BRAY, Denys de Saumarez. Aberdeen 29.11.1875 — Winchester 19.11.1951. British Civil Servant in India, a Scholar of Baluchistan and ...

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

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

BREEKS, Susan Maria (née Denison). Woolwich, Kent 1842 — 1923. Britishwoman in India, wife of —> J. W. ...

BRELOER, Bernhard. Herne, Westfalen 8.11.1894 — Tbilisi 20.4.1947. German Indologist. Professor in Berlin. Son of a mill owner. Participated in the ...

BRENNAND, William. 18?? — 1???. British. Served long as teacher in India, Principal of Dacca College (1856), in 1896 had already been 23 ...

BREWSTER, Earl Henry. Chagris Falls Ohio 1878 — Almora 1957. U.S. Artist (Painter) and Author. Educated at N.Y. School of Art. In 1910 ...

BRIESS, Erwin. 18?? — 19??. Austrian Student of Indology. Ph.D. Wien 1912. In 1913 listed as Greek scholar living in Zürich (Swiss, born ...

BRIGEL, Johann Jakob. 18?? — 1???. Rev. German Missionary in India, belonged to Basel Mission in Mangalore. Retired in 1875 and became minister ...

BRIGGS, George Weston. North Branch, Michigan 21.9.1874 — Madison, N.J. 18.4.1966. U.S. Missionary and Indologist. Educated at Northwestern University (B.S. 1902, ...

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

BRIGGS, John. Madras 18.9.1785 — Burgess Hill, Sussex 27.4.1875. British Colonial Officer and Orientalist. 1801-35 in India. Son of physician James ...

BROADLEY, Alexander Meyrick. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. Collector in Patna dt., Bihar (1872). His collection ...

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

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

BRONSON, Miles. Norway, N.Y. 20.7.1812 — Eaton Rapids, Mich. 9.11.1883. U.S. Baptist Missionary in India. Educated at Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution (future ...

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

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

BROWN, Cecil Jermyn. 1886 — 20.10.1945. British Teacher of English Language and Numis­matist in India. Son of Jermyn Br. ...

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

BROWN, George William. 25.10.1870 — 4.12.1932. U.S. Missionary and Indologist. Missionary in Central India in 1900–1917, with intervals at home, where ...

BROWN, Percy. Birmingham 1872 — 22.3.1955. British Art Historian in India. Educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Birmingham and Royal College ...

BROWN, Thomas Richard. Whatton, Nottinghamshire 1791 — Southwick 1.9.1875. British Priest and a Self-Made Scholar. Son of Richard Brown of Cambridge. Educated at ...

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, William. 1757/67? — 1837. Britishman in India. Senior merchant in Madras in the 1810s. Completed his dictionary, with the help of Telugu pandits, in ...

BROWN, William. 1??? — 18??. Britishman in India. Captain, of the Revenue Survey.

Publications: ...

BROWN, William Norman. Baltimore, Md. 24.6.1892 — 4.12.1975. U.S. Indologist. Son of —> ...

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, James. 1744 — 1792. British Colonial Officer in India. Major. Joined Indian army in 1765, 1772 aide-de-camp of W. Hastings. “Collector of ...

BROŽOVÁ, Marie. Prague 1.8.1897 — 19??. Czechoslovakian Student of IE Linguistics. Studies at Prague under Zubat¥, Ph.D. there 1920/21.

BRUCE, Charles. India 1836 — Edinburgh 13.12.1920. Sir. British (Scots) Indologist, then a Colonial Officer. Son of Thomas Br., of E.I.C. ...

BRUGMANN, Karl Friedrich Christian. Wiesbaden 16.3.1849 — Leipzig 29.6.1919. German Indo-Europaean Scholar. Professor in Leipzig. In his early years wrote his name as ...

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

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

BRUNNHOFER, Hermann. Aarau 21.3.1841 — München 28.10.1916. Swiss Indo-Iranian Scholar. Son of Gottlieb Br., a knifesmith. After Gymnasium in Aarau, studies ...

BUCHANAN-HAMILTON, Francis (till 1815 Francis Buchanan). Branziet, Callander, Pertshire 15.2.1762 — 15.6.1829. British (Scots) Physician in India, Traveller, Naturalist, a Pioneer of Burmese ...

BUCHANAN, Claudius. Cambuslang near Glasgow 12.3.1766 — Broxbourne, Hertford­shire 9.2.1815. Rev. Scots Reverend in India. Son of Alexander B., a ...

BÜCHLER, Pál. Bácstótváros 25.1.1877 — Marosvásárhely 7.7.1946. Hungarian (of Transylvania) Philolog and Translator interested in Sanskrit. Ph.D. 1907 Budapest (diss. on Homer). In 1916/18 Oberlehrer ...

BUCK, Carl Darling. Orland Me. 2.10.1866 — Chicago Ill. 8.2.1955. U.S. Linguist (IE and Classical Scholar). Professor in Chicago. Son of Edward B. ...

BUDMANI, Petar (Pero). Dubrovnik 27.10.1835 — Castel Ferretti near Ancona 27.12.1914. Croatian Slavic Linguist. Studied Sanskrit and several other subjects at Vienna University ...

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

BÜHLER, Johann Georg. Borstel bei Nienburg (Hannover) 19.7.1837 — Bodensee 8.4. 1898. German ...

BÜHLER, Johann Michael. 18?? — India 7.6.1854. German Indologist and Missionary in South ...

BUISKOOL, Herman Eldert. Weerdinge 12.1.1884 — Leiden 11.8.1963. Dutch Indologist. 1898-1902 teacher training in Nijmegen and Arnhem. Was “at first a school-teacher and later a civil servant who was mostly engaged in committee work relating ...

BUITENEN, Johannes (Hans) Adrianus

BULCKE, Camille. Ramskapelle, West Flanders 1909 — Delhi 17.8.1982. S.J. Belgian Missionary and Indologist (Hindi Scholar) in India (from 1935). Studied ...

BULIČ, Sergej Konstantinovič. St.Petersburg 27.8.(8.9.)1859 — Petrograd 1921. Russian Linguist. Professor in St.Petersburg. Born in a noble family originating from Kazan Government. Orthodox. ...

BUNSEN, Christian Karl Josias (then Karl, Freiherr von Bunsen). Korbach/Waldeck 25.8.1791 — Bonn 28.11.1860. Freiherr von 1858. German Diplomat and Scholar. Son of a Dutch officer (N.D.B., but Wikipedia says German soldier), who ...

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

BURCHARDI, Gustav. 1866 — 1???. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. Halle 1892. In 1913-24 corresponded with Streitberg.

BURG, Fritz. Berlin 27.3.1860 — 16.11.1928. German (Jew) Philologist. Ph.D. 1885 Berlin (?). Worked in Hamburg Stadtbibliothek: 1892 Hilfsarbeiter, 1894 Sekretar, 1907 Bibliothekar, ...

BURGESS, Ebeneser. Grafton, Vermont 26.6.1805 — Newton Centre, Mass. 1.1.1870. U.S. Missionary in India, a Scholar of Marathi, Sanskrit, and of ...

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

BURGESS, May S. 18?? — 19??. Miss. Perhaps a daughter of —> James B.

Publications: translated W. Schubring’s Kalpasutra from German to English for IA 39, 1910.

BURGHART, Richard. U.S.A. 1944 — Heidelberg 1.1.1994. U.S. Anthropologist. B.A. 1966 Wil­liams College, Mass., also studied in Ibadan. Nigeria. M.Phil. 1969 S.O.A.S. in ...

BÜRK, Albert. 18?? — 19??. German or Austrian Indologist. No Indological diss. in Janert. One AB wrote on Germanistics in 1905.

BURKHARD, Karl Friedrich. Leipheim bei Ulm/Bayern 2.9.1824 — 19.2. 1893. German School-Teacher and Indologist in Austria. Son of the Protestant minister ...

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

BURLINGAME, Eugene Watson. Albany, N.Y. 5.8.1876 — 3.8.1932. U.S. Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Educated at Yale (B.A. 1898) and University of Penn­sylvania ...

BURN, Richard. Liverpool 1.2.1871 — 26.7.1947 (when 76). British Civil Servant in India, Historian of Islamic and Colonial India, Numismatist. School in Liverpool, ...

BURNELL, Arthur Coke. St.Briavels, Gloucestershire 11.7.1840 — London 12. or 16.10.1882. British Civil Servant and Indologist in India. Son of Arthur ...

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

BURNES, James. 12.2.1801 — 19.9.1862. British (Scots) Physician in India. Son of James B., brother of —> A. B. Educated at Edinburgh University and ...

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

BURNOUF, Émile-Louis. Valognes 26.8.1821 — Paris 1.7. or 16.1.1907. French Indologist and Classical scholar. Nephew of —> E. Burnouf. From 1841 ...

BURNOUF, Eugène. Paris 8.4. (or 12.8.?) 1801 — Paris 28.5.1852. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. Son of —> J.-L. Burnouf and ...

BURNOUF, Jean-Louis. Urville near Valognes 14.9.1775 — 8.5.1844. French Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Paris. Father of —> E. Burnouf. One ...

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

BURROW, Reuben. 30.12.1747 — Baxar 7.6.1792. British Mathematician in India. “Son of a farmer, educated at Leeds. Became a clerk, usher, ...

BURROW, Thomas. Westmoreland, Leck, North Lancashire 29.6.1909 — Kidlington, Oxfordshire 8.6.1986. British Indologist. Professor in Oxford. Studies at Cambridge (Christ’s College) ...

BURROWS, Lionel Burton. Deposit, N.Y. 12.3.1883 — U.K. 13.10.1970. British (or U.S. in British Service) Civil Servant in India. Son of Charles Benjamin ...

BURT, Thomas Seymour. 1805 — Cotmandene, Dorking 8/9.3.1890. British Colonial Officer in India. Educated in 1821-23 at Addiscombe. From 1824 served as lieutenant ...

BURTON, Richard Francis. Barnham House, Hertshire 19.3.1821— Trieste 20.10.1890. Sir. British (of Irish origin) Orientalist, Traveller and Diplomat. Son of colonel Joseph Netterville ...

BURY, John Bagnell. Monaghan 16.10.1861 — Rome 1.6.1927. British (Irish) Classical Scholar and Historian. Professor in Cambridge. Son of Rev. E. J. B., canon of ...

BUSCHARDT, Leo Maxim. Copenhagen 24.8.1906 — Copenhagen 11.3.1966. Danish Indologist. Librarian in Copenhagen. Son of Christian B., a mason and musician, ...

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 ...

BUSSAGLI, Mario. Siena 23.9.1917 — 1988. Italian Art Historian. Prof. di Storia dell’ Arte dell’ India e dell’ Asia Centrale 1957-87 at Università degli Studi, Rome (1957 straordinario with same title).

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BUTTERWORTH, Allan. Southport, Lancashire 1864 — 25.5.1937. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry B. and Mary Jane Schofield. Educated at Elizabeth ...

GIUSEPPE MARIA DA GARGHANO (Bernardino Bernini)

SCALABRINO BORSANI, Giuseppina (or G. Borsani Scalabrino). Milano 9.5.1910 — 22.2.1991. Italian Indologist. Professor in ...