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  • BAADER, Theodor Ludger Josef Anna Maria

    BAADER, Theodor Ludger Josef Anna Maria. Münster 25.4.1888 — Hiltrup, Westfalen 16.4.1959. German Linguist. Ph.D. 1913 Münster (diss. on local dialect). From 1923 Professor of Germanic and Celtic Languages at Nijmegen, taught there ...

  • BABBITT, Irving

    BABBITT, Irving. Dayton, Ohio 2.8.1865 — Cambridge, Mass. 15.7.1933. U.S. Romance Philologist interested in Pāli. Son of ...

  • BABINGTON, Benjamin Guy

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

  • BACHHOFER, Ludwig

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

  • 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 and Susannah Sophia Taylor. In 1835-38 Lieutenant with Bengal Horse Artillery stationed ...

  • BACOT, Jacques

    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

    BADEN POWELL, Baden Henry (born Baden Henry Powell). Oxford 23.8.1841 — Oxford 2.1.1901. British Civil Servant in ...

  • 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, Indiana 27.4.1849 — Lucknow 20.11.1891. U.S. Missionary in India. Son of Arthur ...

  • 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. BothonWikipedia and Prabook explain that he was “Acting ...

  • BAIER —> BAYER

    BAIER —> BAYER.

  • BAILEY, Benjamin

    BAILEY, Benjamin. Dewsbury, Yorkshire ?.11.1791 — Sheinton, Shropshire 3.4.1871. Rev. British Missionary of Church Missionary ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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. U.S. author who lived long time in ...

  • BAINBRIDGE, Reginald Balopooreah

    BAINBRIDGE, Reginald Balipooreah. Channel Islands 2.5.1871 — Arrah, Bengal 1.5.1914. British Civl ...

  • 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 ...

  • BAKE, Arnold Adriaan

    BAKE, Arnold Adriaan. Hilversum 19.5.1899 — London 8.10.1963. Dutch Indologist in India and in the U.K. Born in a well-to-do family. School at Hilversum and in ...

  • BAKTAY, Ervin

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

  • BAL’MONT, Konstantin Dmitrievič

    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

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

  • BALDAEUS (Baelde), Philippus

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

  • 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 ...

  • BALFOUR, Henry

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

  • BALINT-ILLYÉS, Gabor Szentkátolnai

    BÁLINT-ILLYÉS, Gábor Szentkátolnai. Szentkátolna (now ...

  • BALL, Valentine

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

  • BALLANTYNE, James Robert

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

  • 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 and from ...

  • BALLIN, Louis

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

  • 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, lost ...

  • BĂNĂŢEANU, Vlad

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

  • BANESS, Joshua Frederick

    BANESS, Joshua Frederick. Delhi 1830 — 1884. British Civil Servant in India. Born in India, son of Athanas ...

  • BANG KAUP, Willy

    BANG KAUP, Willy (Willi, Johann Wilhelm Max Julius Bang Kaup). Wesel 8/9.8.1869 — ...

  • BANHA, Manuel

    BANHA, Manuel. 1??? — 1???. Father. Portuguese (?) Franciscan Missionary in India, probably in the ...

  • BANNERTH, Ernst

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

  • 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 — 4.9.1952. Russian (Ukrainian) Indologist. Son of ...

  • BARATTI, Giuseppina

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

  • BARBORKA, Geoffrey Avery

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

  • BARBOSA, Duarte

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

  • BARDELLI, Giuseppe

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

  • BARDÓN Y GÓMEZ, Lázaro

    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

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

  • 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 B. Studies at Oriental Faculty in Lenin­grad, ...

  • BARIĆ, Henrik

    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

    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 B. In 1819 brought to England for education, in 1835 returned to Syria, later on resident in ...

  • BARNETT, Lionel David

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

  • BARR, Kaj

    BARR, Kaj. Copenhagen 26.6.1896 — Copenhagen 4.1.1970. Danish Iranian Scholar. Professor in Copenhagen. Adopted son ...

  • BARRETO, Júlio Francisco Antönio Adeodato

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

  • BARRETT, Douglas

    BARRETT, Douglas E. 10.3.1917 — 1992. British Art Historian of India. Studies of Classics at Oxford. In 1939-46 Major in British Artillery. From 1947 in ...

  • BARRETT, LeRoy Carr

    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

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

  • BARROS, João de

    BARROS, João de. Vila Verde, Viseu (?), Portugal 1496? — Ribeira de Litém near Pombal 20.10.1570. ...

  • BARROW, George

    BARROW, George. Mayfair, London 22.10.1806 — West Molesey, Surrey 27.2.1876. Sir, 2nd ...

  • BARSCHEL, Bernd

    BARSCHEL, Bernd. Hohenstein-Ernstthal 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 and Indology ...

  • BARSTOW, Arthur Edward

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

  • 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 B., and protestant mother, ...

  • BARTHÉLEMY-SAINT-HILAIRE, Jules

    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

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

  • BARTHOLD, W.

    BARTHOLD, W. —> BARTOL’D, V. V.

  • BARTHOLOMAE, Friedrich Christian Leonhard

    BARTHOLOMAE, Friedrich Christian Leonhard. Forsthaus ...

  • 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. Worked as geologist in Morocco, Egypt and ...

  • 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 ...

  • BARTOLI, Emilio

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

  • BARTOLI, Matteo

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

  • 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 Turfan expeditions 1902–14. ...

  • BARUCH, Willy

    BARUCH, Willy. Herford 1900 — Montfavet, Avignon ?.3.1954. German Indologist, Sinologist, Buddhist and Central Asian Scholar. Born of a Jewish family ...

  • BASHAM, Arthur Llewellyn

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

  • BASSOLS DE CLIMENT, Mariano

    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

    BASTIAN, Philipp Wilhelm 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. ...

  • 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. French Archivist and Gipsy ...

  • BATE, John Drew

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

  • BATESON, Joseph Harger

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

  • BATSCH, Friedrich

    BATSCH, Friedrich. 182? — 1907. RevBAUDIŠ, Josef

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

  • BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY, Jan

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

  • BAUDRY, Frédéric

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

  • BAUER, Hubert

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

    Publications:

  • BAULEZ, Marius-Joseph-Aimé.

    BAULEZ, Marius-Joseph-Aimé. Marseille 12.9.1842 — Bangalore 29.4.1906. ...

  • BAUMER, Rachel Van Meter

    BAUMER, Rachel Van Meter. 1928 — 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 Minnesota, later in the ...

  • BAUMGARTEN, Michael

    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 ...

  • 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 GrimmaBAUSANI, Alessandro

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

  • BAYER, Theophil (Gottlieb) Siegfrid

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

  • BAYLEY, Edward Clive

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

  • BAYNES, Herbert

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

  • BAZIN-FOUCHER, Eugénie

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

  • BEAL, Samuel

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

  • 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 of Board ...

  • 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 B., ...

  • BEAMES, John

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

  • BECCARINI-CRESCENZI, Elena

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

  • BECHTEL, Fritz (Friedrich)

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

  • BECK, Horace Courthope

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

  • BECKER, Christophorus (Edmund)

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

  • BECKH, Hermann

    BECKH, Christoph Eugen Hermann. Nürnberg 4.5.1875 ...

  • 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 ...

  • BEGLAR, Joseph David

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

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • BELENICKIJ, Aleksandr Markovič.

    BELENICKIJ, Aleksandr Markovič. Ljubino (Lobino), Byelo Russia 24.3./6.4.1904 — St.Petersburg 15.6.1993. Russian Archaeologist, Specialist of Sogdian Art. Son ...

  • 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 1842. In ...

  • BELL, C. W. Bowdler

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

  • 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 in India. Born ...

  • BELL, Harold Wilberforce

    BELL, Harold Wilberforce —> H. WILBERFORCE-BELL

  • BELL, Harry Charles Purvis

    BELL, Harry Charles Purvis. India ...

  • BELLASIS, Augustus Fortunatus

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

  • BELLEW, Henry Walter

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

  • 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 ...

  • BELLONI-FILIPPI, Ferdinando

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

  • 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 ...

  • BELTRAMI, Arnaldo

    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

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

  • BENARY, Karl Albert Agathon

    BENARY, Karl Albert Agathon. Kassel 17.1.1807 ...

  • BENDA, Elimar

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

  • BENDALL, Cecil

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

  • BENDER, Ernest

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

  • BENDER, Harold Herman

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

  • BENFEY, Theodor

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

  • BENIGNY, Gyula (Julius)

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

  • BÉNISTI (Monié-Bénisti, née Sarfati)

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

  • BENMOHEL, Nathan Lazarus

    BENMOHEL, Nathan Lazarus. Hamburg 26.5.1803 — Dun Laoghaire (or rather Sandycove nearby), county Dublin 22.12.1869. German Jew in ...

  • BENNETT, Adrienne A. G

    BENNETT, Adrienne A. G. 18?? — 19?? (in the early 1950s she was around 60)). Mrs. ...

  • BENNETT, Charles Henry Allan (Ananda Metteyya Thera)

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

  • BENTLEY, John

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

  • BENVENISTE, Émile

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

  • BERESFORD, George Read Edward

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

  • BEREZOVSKIJ, Mihail Mihailovič

    BEREZOVSKIJ, Mihail Mihajlovič. 1848 — St.Petersburg 5.4.1912. Russian Traveller in Central Asia. Born in a noble ...

  • BERG, Cornelis Christian

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

  • BERGAIGNE, Abel-Henri-Joseph

    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

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

  • BERGMAN, Folke

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

  • BERGMANN, Benjamin Fürchtegott Balthasar von

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

  • 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 B. and ...

  • BERGNY, A. V

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

  • BERGSTEDT, Carl Fredrik

    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

    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 ...

  • BERNARD, Theos Casimir

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

  • BERNEKER, Erich

    BERNEKER, Erich. Königsberg 3.2.1874 — Munich 15/20.3.1937. German Linguist, mainly Slavic, but also IE Scholar. Professor in Munich. ...

  • BERNER, Vil’gel’m Mihajlovič

    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

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

  • BERNHARD, Franz

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

  • BERNHEIMER, Carlo

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

  • BERNIER, François

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

  • 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. Grew up in country, from the age of 14 worked as typographist. After WW II studied Chinese at É.L.O.V., then ...

  • BERNOULLI, Jean (Johann)

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

  • 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 ...

  • BERNSTEIN, Georg Heinrich

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

  • BERRIZ DO SEIXO, Aureliano Julio

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

  • BERTHELOT, Marcellin

    BERTHELOT, Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin. Paris 25.10.1827 — Paris 18.3.1907. French Chemist, famous for ...

  • BERTHOLET, Alfred

    BERTHOLET, Alfred Robert Felix. Basel 9.11.1868 — Münsterlingen, Thurgau 24.8.1951. Swiss Reformed Theologian and ...

  • BERTRAND, François-Marie, l’abbé

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

  • 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 medical examination. ...

  • BESANT, Annie (née Wood)

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

  • 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 — ...

  • BESKROVNYJ, Vasilij Matveevič

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

  • BESSE, Léon

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

  • BETH, Ali

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

  • BETTEI, Vittorio

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

  • BETTS, Ursula (née Bower)

    BETTS, Ursula  Violet Graham (née U. V. G. Bower). England 15.5.1914 — 12.11.1988. British Anthropologist. Daughter of Commander John Graham Bower (RN). Educated at Roedean School, but family difficulties prevented planned ...

  • BEVERIDGE, Annette Susannah (née Akroyd)

    BEVERIDGE, Annette Susannah (née Akroyd). Stourbridge, Worcestershire 13.12.1842 — London 27.3.1929. British Oriental (Persian ...

  • BEVERIDGE, Henry

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

  • BEVERIDGE, Henry

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

  • BEVERIDGE, Henry

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

  • BEYER, Kurt

    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). Manuscript ...

  • BEYTHAN, Hermann

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

  • BEZZENBERGER, Adalbert

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

  • BHARATI, Agehananda (Leopold Fischer), Swami

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

  • BIANCHI, Ugo

    BIANCHI, Ugo. Cavriglia, Arezzo 13.10.1922 — Firenzuola 14.4.1995. Italian Scholar of Iranian Religion. Grew up in ...

  • BICKELL, Gustav

    BICKELL, Gustav Wilhelm Hugo. Kassel 7.7.1838 — Vienna 25.1.1906. German Oriental ...

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

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

  • BIDDULPH, Charles Hubert

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

  • BIDDULPH, John

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

  • BIDIE, George

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

  • BIESE, Yrjö Moses Jalmari

    BIESE, Yrjö Moses Jalmari. Helsinki 4.1.1903 ...

  • 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 Besancon and at ...

  • BILLARD, Roger

    BILLARD, Roger. 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 Oriental bookshop Adrien Maisonneuve ...

  • BINGLEY, Alfred Horsford

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

  • BINYON, Laurence Robert

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

  • BIOT, Jean Baptiste

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

  • 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 Christopher Molesworth

    BIRDWOOD, George Christopher Molesworth. Belgaum, India 8.12.1832 — Ealing, London 28.6.1917. Sir. British Physician ...

  • BJÖRNSTJERNA, Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand

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

  • BLACKADER, Adam

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

  • BLAIR, Chauncey J.

    BLAIR, Chauncey Justus. Chicago 3.12.1913 — 1999. U.S. Indologist. Probably son of Chauncey Buckley Blair. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. In 1959 living in West Hyattsville, Maryland, in 1981 in Bowie, Maryland, ...

  • BLAKESLEY, Thomas Holmes.

    BLAKESLEY, Thomas Holmes. Ware, Hertsfordshire 8.7.1847 — London 13.2.1929. British Civil Engineer and Scientist ...

  • BLAKISTON, John Francis

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

  • BLAND, Nathaniel

    BLAND, Nathaniel (born Nath. Crumpe). Liverpool 3.2.1803 — Homburg-les-Bains 10.8.1865. British Oriental ...

  • BLANFORD, William Thomas

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

  • BLAQUIERE, William Coates

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

  • BLATT, Gustaw

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

  • BLATT, Heinrich

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

  • BLATTER, Edelbert (or Ethelbert)

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

  • BLAU, August

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

  • BLAU, Otto

    BLAU, Ernst Otto Friedrich Hermann. Nordhausen, Thüringen 21.4.1828 — ...

  • BLAVATSKY, Helena Petrovna

    BLAVATSKY, Helena Petrovna (née Hahn, Russian Jelena Petrovna Blavatskaja, née Gan). Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro ...

  • BLEECK, Arthur Henry

    BLEECK, Arthur Henry. Westbury, Wiltshire 18.5.1829 — Kensington, London 27.1.1877. British Orientalist. known of his remarkable ...

  • BLEEKER, Claas Jouco

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

  • BLEICHSTEINER, Robert

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

  • BLIN, Amédée

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

  • BLOCH, Alfred

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

  • BLOCH, Jules

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

  • BLOCH, Theodor

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

  • BLOCHET, Edgar

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

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • BLONAY, Godefroy de, baron

    BLONAY, Godefroy Jean Henry Louis de

  • BLOOMFIELD, Leonard

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

  • BLOOMFIELD, Maurice

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

  • BLUMHARDT, James Fuller

    BLUMHARDT, James Fuller. Bengal 1844? — Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire 10.12.1922. British Indologist (NIA Scholar). ...

  • BLUNT, Edward Arthur Henry

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

  • BLUNT, James Tillyer.

    BLUNT, James Tillyer. 1765/67 (bapt. All Saints, Fulham, Middlesex 26.5.1767) — 20.10.1834. British Officer ...

  • BOAKE, William John Slade

    BOAKE, William John Slade.BOBRINSKOY, George Vladimir

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

  • BOCARRO, Antonio

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

  • BOCHINGER, Jean-Jacques

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

  • BODDING, Paul Olaf

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

  • BODE, Mabel Kate Haynes

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

  • BODEN, Joseph

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

  • BOEHLING, Georg

    BOEHLING, Georg. Rodenberg, Kreis Rinteln 28.10.1854 — Hannover 3.6.1912. German Teacher and former Student of ...

  • BOELES, Jan Jetso

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

  • BOER, Richard Constant

    BOER, Richard Constant. Warnsveld 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 geography at gymnasium in ...

  • BOGDAN-DUICA, Gheorghe

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

  • BOGLE, George

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

  • BOGORODICKIJ, Vasilij Alekseevič

    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

    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

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

  • BÖHM, Annie Karoline

    BÖHM, Annie Karoline. Mährisch Ostrava (now in Czech) 17.8.1893 — Haifa, Israel 11.9.1985. ...

  • BOHNENBERGER, Karl

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

  • BÖHTLINGK, Otto Nikolaus von

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

  • BOISACQ, Émile

    BOISACQ, Émile. Namur 26.11.1865 — Ixelles (Brussels) 2.6.1945. Belgian Linguist and Classical Scholar. Educated in ...

  • BOISEN, Lars Nannestad

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

  • BOISSELIER, Jean

    BOISSELIER, Jean. Paris 26.8.1912 — Paris 26.2.1996. French Archaeologist, Art Historian and Buddhist Scholar. Son of the military illustrator Henri Boisselier. In the 1920s studied at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts ...

  • BOISSEROLLE-BOISVILLIERS, Aurèle-Jean de

    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

    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

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

  • BOLLER, Johann Anton

    BOLLER, Johann Anton. Krems an ...

  • BOLLING, Frederik Andersen

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

  • BOLLING, George Melville

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

  • BOLTZ, August

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

  • BOMFORD, Trevor

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

  • BOMPAS, Cecil Henry

    BOMPAS, Cecil Henry. London 31.5.1868 — Broughton, Hampshire 22.1.1956. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry Mason B. (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. After school in Paris studies at Geneva and Strasbourg, graduated 1867 from Strasbourg. Protestant pastor in Dordrecht 1869-72, Beauvais 1872-76 ...

  • BONN, Gisela

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

  • BONSEN, Fritz

    BONSEN, Fritz, pseudonym for —> A. HILLEBRANDT

  • BOPP, Franz

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

  • BOR, Norman Loftus

    BOR, Norman Loftus. Tramore, County Waterford 2.5.1893 — London 22.12.1972. BORÉ, Eugène

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

  • BORECKÝ, Jaromír

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

  • 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 ...

  • BORGSTRØM, Carl Hjalmar

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

  • BORK, Ferdinand A.

    BORK, Ferdinand A. Forsthaus bei Königsbruch, Kr. Tuchel, Westpreussen (now in Poland) 26.11.1871 — Benhausen ...

  • BORKOWSKI, Aleksander (Leszek) Dunin

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

  • BORROW, George Henry

    BORROW, George Henry. East Dereham, Norfolk 5.7.1803 — Lowestoft, Suffolk 26.7.1881. BORTOLAZZI, Bortolo Maria

    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

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

  • BOSCH, Frederik David Kan

    BOSCH, Frederik David Kan. ...

  • BOSWELL, John Alexander Corrie

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

  • BÖTTICHER, P.

    BÖTTICHER, P. —> LAGARDE, Paul de.

  • BOUCHET, Jean Venant

    BOUCHET, Jean Venant. Fontenay-le-Comte 1655 — 1732. Father. S.J. French Missionary in Thailand and India. ...

  • BOUDA, Karl

    BOUDA, Karl Ernst. Hamburg 10.2.1901 — Erlangen or Nürnberg (?) 31.7.1979. German Linguist ...

  • BOUGLÉ, Célestin

    BOUGLÉ, Célestin Charles Alfred. Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-du-Nord, now Côtes-d’Armor) 1.6.1870 — Paris 25.1.1940. French Philosopher and Sociologist. Studies at École normale supérieure, agrégé in philosophy 1893. Ph.D. 1899. Taught at lycée in Saint-Brieuc, ...

  • BOULNOIS, Jean Raymond Paul

    BOULNOIS, Jean Raymond Paul. 19.3.1904 — Philippeville, Algeria 1956. French Physician interested in India. ...

  • 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 B., Registrar to the ...

  • 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. ...

  • BOURQUIN, Auguste Ali

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

  • BOWDEN, Ernest Monnington

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

  • BOWER, Hamilton

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

  • BOWER, Henry

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

  • 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. Graduated 1935 from Columbia University and 1939 from Juilliard Graduate School of Music. In 1940-41 taught at Hosei University ...

  • BOWLES, Charles (then Charles Bowles Shakespear)

    BOWLES, Charles (then Charles Bowles Shakespear). Leicestershire ...

  • BOWREY (Bowry), Thomas

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

  • BOWRING, Lewin Bentham

    BOWRING, Lewin Bentham. Hackney, London 15.7.1824 — Torquay, Devon 14.1.1910. British Civil Servant ...

  • BOXBERGER, Robert

    BOXBERGER, Robert. Gotha 28.5.1836 — Stadtsulza near Weimar 30.3.1890. German Literate interested in Sanskrit. Son ...

  • 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 B. ...

  • BOXWELL, John

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

  • BOYD, Palmer

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

  • BOYER, Augustin-M.

    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

    BOYLE, John Archibald. 1845? — India (Madras?) 9.2.1875. British Civil ...

  • BRACHET, Benjamin

    BRACHET, Benjamin, as the author of a Vedic work (Prières antèhistoriques. Œuvres ...

  • BRADDOCK, John

    BRADDOCK, John. Westminster 1794 — Madras 1840. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of John and Sarah Br. Served in Madras army. In the Preface to gunpowder book, signed in Madras ...

  • BRADKE, Peter von

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

  • BRADLEY, William Henry

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

  • BRAMZELIUS, Abbe Wilhelm Nils

    BRAMZELIUS, Abbe Wilhelm Nils. Ystad 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).

    Publications: Die hinduistische Pantheon-Glasmalerei. ...

  • BRANDENSTEIN, Wilhelm

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

  • BRANDES, Carl Edvard Cohen

    BRANDES, Carl Edvard Cohen. Copenhagen 21.10.1847 — ...

  • BRANDES, Jan Laurens Andries

    BRANDES, Jan Laurens Andries. Rotterdam 13.1.1857 — Batavia (Jakarta) 26.6.1906. BRANDI, Mario

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

  • BRANDRETH, Joseph Edward Lyall

    BRANDRETH, Joseph Edward Lyall. Liverpool ...

  • BRANDT, Francis

    BRANDT, Francis. Pendleton, Lancashire 6.5.1840 — Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 17.7.1925. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Robert Brandt. Educated at Cheltenham College, became famous as cricketer. After graduation from Oxford (Brasenose ...

  • BRANFILL, Brydges Robinson

    BRANFILL, Brydges Robinson. Upminster Hall, Essex 22.11.1834 ...

  • BRASSAI, Sámuel

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

  • BRAUNHOLTZ, Gustav Ernst Karl

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

  • BRAY, Denys de Saumarez

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

  • BRÉAL, Auguste

    BRÉAL, Edouard Auguste. 19.2.1868 — 17.1.1941. French Art Historian and Painter. Son of —> Michel Bréal. Bachelier ès lettres 1888, Licencie ès lettres 1890, Licencie en droit 1892.

    Publications: “Les mots anglais dans ...

  • BRÉAL, Michel-Jules-Alfred

    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

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

  • BREEKS, Susan Maria

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

  • BREITHAUPT, Johann Christian

    BREITHAUPT, Johann Christian. Dransfeld near Göttingen 26.9.1719 — Vepery 17.11.1782. German ...

  • BRELOER, Bernhard

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

  • BRENNAND, William

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

  • BREUIL, Paul de

    BREUIL, Paul de. Vincennes 15.3.1932 — Neuilly-sur-Seine 19.10.1991. French Scholar of Religion. Studies at É.P.H.É. His Jaina book was harshly criticized as amateurish by Caillat in the BÉI.

    Publications: Zarathoustra ...

  • BREWSTER, Earl Henry

    BREWSTER, Earl Henry. Chagris Falls, Ohio 21.9.1878 — Almora 19.9.1957. U.S. Artist (Painter) and Author. ...

  • 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 at University ...

  • BRICE, Nathaniel

    BRICE, Nathaniel. 1??? — 18??. U.S. Baptist Missionary in India. The Preface of the book ...

  • BRIESS, Erwin

    BRIESS, Erwin Eduard. Olmütz (Olomouc), Moravia 9.5.1886 — 1946. Austrian Student of Indology. Studies of Oriental Philology at Vienna, Ph.D. 1912. Moved soon to Switzerland and lived ...

  • BRIGEL, Johann Jakob

    BRIGEL, Johann Jakob. 18?? — 1???. Rev. German Missionary in India, belonged to Basel Mission in Mangalore. Retired in 1875 and became minister 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. Madras 18.9.1785 — Burgess Hill, Sussex 27.4.1875. British Colonial Officer and Oriental Scholar, ...

  • 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 ...

  • BROCKHAUS, Hermann

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

  • BRODIE, Alexander Oswald

    BRODIE, Alexander Oswald. 1817? — Edinburgh 5/6.11.1874, when 57. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Colonel James Br., of Madras Army. From 1845 in Ceylon rising to Assistant ...

  • 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, N.Y. 20.7.1812 — Eaton Rapids, Mich. 9.11.1883. U.S. Baptist Missionary in India. ...

  • BROOKS, Robert R. R.

    BROOKS, Robert Romano Ravi. Rome 1905 — Nyack, NY 28.1.1992. U.S. Economist. Grew up in Vermont and Florida. From 1945 Orin Sage Professor of Economics at Williams College in Williamstown, MA, retired ...

  • BROOKS, Sarah Wells

    BROOKS, Sarah Wells. 18?? — 19??. U.S.Early Female Student. Studied from 1892 at Harvard Annex ...

  • BROUGH, John

    BROUGH, John. Dundee 31.8.1917 — Bishop’s Stortford, near Cambridge 9.1. 1984. British (Scottish) ...

  • BROUGHTON, Thomas Duer

    BROUGHTON, Thomas Duer. 1778 — London 16.11.1835. British Colonial Officer in India. Son ...

  • BROWN, Cecil Jermyn

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

  • 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 co., Maryland. Studies at ...

  • BROWN, John Coggin

    BROWN, John Coggin. West Auckland, co. Durham ?.10.1884 — 23.6.1963. 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 — Srinagar 22.3.1955. British Art Historian in India. Educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Birmingham, then at Royal ...

  • 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. Educated ...

  • 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, William

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

  • BROWN, William

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

  • BROWN, William Norman

    BROWN, William Norman. ...

  • BROWNE, Edward Granville.

    BROWNE, Edward Granville. Uley near Dursley, Gloucestershire 7.2.1862 — Cambridge 5.1.1926. British Oriental Scholar (mainly ...

  • BROWNE, James

    BROWNE, James. 1744 — 1792. British Colonial Officer in India. Major. Joined Indian army in ...

  • BROWNE, John Frederick

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

  • BROŽOVÁ, Marie

    BROŽOVÁ, Marie. Prague 1.8.1897 — 19??. Czechoslovakian Student of IE Linguistics. Studies at Prague under ...

  • BRUCE, Charles

    BRUCE, Charles. Roncally, Bengal 13.10.1836 — Edinburgh 13.12.1920. Sir. British (Scottish) Indologist, then a Colonial ...

  • BRUCE, John

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

  • BRUCE, Richard Isaac

    BRUCE, Richard Isaac. 1840 — 29.4.1924. British (Irish) Colonial Officer ...

  • BRÜCKE, Ernst Wilhelm (von)

    BRÜCKE, Ernst Wilhelm (von). Berlin 6.7.1819 — Vienna 7.1.1892.

  • 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

  • BRUINING, Albertus

    BRUINING, Albertus. Pietersbierum, Friesland 2.7.1846 — ’s-Gravenhage 20.11.1919. Dutch Theologian, began as an Indologist. Son of Johannes Br., ...

  • BRUNE, Johannes H.

    BRUNE, Johannes H. Bochum 28.12.1883 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Roman Catholic. ...

  • BRUNNER, Linus

    BRUNNER, Linus. 1909 — 1987. Swiss Linguist.  Ph.D. 1936 Zürich. Professor in Canton School in St.Gallen. Few have accepted his far-reaching theories.

    Publications: Diss. Entwicklung der Funktionen der lateinischen Konjunktion dum. ...

  • BRUNNHOFER, Hermann

    BRUNNHOFER, Gottlieb Hermann. Aarau 16.3.(21.3.?)1841 — Munich 28.10.1916. Swiss Indo-Iranian Scholar. Son of Gottlieb Br., a knifesmith. After Gymnasium in Aarau, studies of Philosophy ...

  • BUCHANAN-HAMILTON, Francis

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

  • BUCHANAN, Claudius

    BUCHANAN, Claudius. Cambuslang near Glasgow 12.3.1766 — Broxbourne, Hertford­shire 9.2.1815. Rev. British ...

  • BUCHER, Jakob

    BUCHER, Jakob. 18?? — 1???. Rev. German Missionary in South India. Working for Basel Mission ...

  • BÜCHI, Ernst Carl

    BÜCHI, Ernst Carl. Adorf, Thurgau 3.9.1914 — Löhningen, Schaffhausen 1.11.1982. Swiss Physical Anthropologist. Professor in Berlin. Grew up in Thurgau, school in Schaffhausen. Studies at Zürich, Ph.D. 1942 under Schlaginhaufen. Assistant, ...

  • BÜCHLER, Pál

    BÜCHLER, Pál. Bácstótváros (Tovariševo in Serbian Vojvodina) 25.1.1877 — Târgu Mureş 7.7.1946. Hungarian (of Transylvania) Philologist and Translator ...

  • BUCK, Carl Darling

    BUCK, Carl Darling. Orland/Bucksport, Me. 2.10.1866 — Chicago, Ill. 8.2.1955. U.S. Linguist (IE and Classical ...

  • BUCK, Stuart H.

    BUCK, Stuart Henry. Attleboro, MA 11.2.1911/21 (?) — Lynchburg, VA 7.4.1997 (or 28.3.). U.S. Tibetologist and Mongolist. Son of Frederic Holden Buck and Florence Hacket. Graduated from Harvard (A.B. 1933). Probably ...

  • BUDMANI, Petar

    BUDMANI, Petar (Pero). Dubrovnik 27.10.1835 — Castelferretti near Ancona 27.12.1914. Croatian Slavic Linguist. ...

  • BUGAULT, Guy

    BUGAULT, Guy. St.Coulomb, Bretagne 17.7.1917 — 27.10.2002. French Indologist. Student of Lacombe. Taught at Université de Paris-X-Nanterre, then Professor of Indian and Comparative Philosophy at Paris IV (Sorbonne), retired. ...

  • BUGGE, Elseus 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 ...

  • 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 Johann ...

  • BÜHLER, Johann Michael

    BÜHLER, Johann Michael. 18?? — India 7.6.1854. German Indologist and Missionary in South India. After several years of Sanskrit studies in Germany (perhaps under Ewald, with ...

  • BUHOT, Jean

    BUHOT, 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, née Johnston. After school in Paris travelled ...

  • BUISKOOL, Herman Eldert

    BUISKOOL, Herman Eildert. Weeding, Drenthe 12.1.1884 — Leiden 11.8.1963. Dutch Indologist. Son of a school ...

  • BUITENEN, Johannes (Hans) Adrianus Bernardus van

    BUITENEN, Johannes (Hans) Adrianus

  • BULCKE, Camille

    BULCKE, Camille (Kamiel). Ramskapelle, West Flanders 1.9.1909 — Delhi 17.8.1982. S.J. Belgian Missionary ...

  • 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. ...

  • BUNSEN, Christian Karl Josias

    BUNSEN, Christian Karl Josias (then Karl, Freiherr von Bunsen). Korbach/Waldeck 25.8.1791 — Bonn ...

  • 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 B. and Mary Bosworth, educated ...

  • BURCHARDI, Gustav

    BURCHARDI, Gustav. 1866 — 19??. German Linguist. Ph.D. 1892 Halle. In 1913 in Limerick, Ireland, ...

  • BURG, Fritz

    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

    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 ...

  • BURGESS, May S

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

    Publications: Translated from German to English Bühler & Zachariae on Navasāhasāṅkacarita, IA 36, 1907, 149-172 and ...

  • BURGHART, Richard

    BURGHART, Richard. U.S.A. 1944 — Heidelberg 1.1.1994, when 49. U.S. Anthropologist in Germany. B.A. 1966 ...

  • BÜRK, Albert

    BÜRK, Albert. 18?? — 19??. German or Austrian Indologist. No Indological diss. in Janert, not ...

  • BURKHARD, Karl Friedrich

    BURKHARD, Karl Friedrich. Leipheim bei Ulm/Bayern 2.9.1824 — Vienna 19.2. ...

  • BURKITT, Francis Crawford

    BURKITT, Francis Crawford. Marylebone, London 3.9.1864 — Cambridge 11.5.1935. British Theologian. Esucated at Harrow. Studied first mathematics at Cambridge (Trinity College), B.A. 1886, then turned to theology. M.A. 1890.  In 1903-05 Lecturer ...

  • BURLĂ, Vasile M

    BURLĂ, Vasile M. Opăiţeni (then Hungary) 6.2.1840 — Iaşi 8.1.1905. Romanian Classical and IE Scholar. ...

  • BURLINGAME, Eugene Watson

    BURLINGAME, Eugene Watson. Albany, N.Y. 5.8.1876 — 3.8.1932. U.S. Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Son of Eugene B. and Emma Patten Watson. Educated at ...

  • 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 Coke

    BURNELL, Arthur Coke. St.Briavels, Gloucestershire 11.7.1840 — London 12. or 16.10.1882. British Civil ...

  • BURNES, Alexander

    BURNES, Alexander. Montrose, Angus 16.5.1805 — Kabul 2.11.1841. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer (Lieutenant-Colonel) and ...

  • BURNES, James

    BURNES, James. Montrose, Angus 12.2.1801 — London 19.9.1862. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Son of ...

  • BURNEY, Henry

    BURNEY, Henry. 27.2.1792 — at sea 4.3.1845. British Colonial Officer (Captain, 1834 Lieutenant-Colonel) and Diplomat ...

  • 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. ...

  • BURNOUF, Eugène

    BURNOUF, Eugène. Paris 8.4. (or 12.8.?) 1801 — Paris 28.5.1852. French Indologist. Professor ...

  • BURNOUF, Jean-Louis

    BURNOUF, Jean-Louis. Urville near Valognes 14.9.1775 — Paris 8.5.1844. French Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. ...

  • BURRITT, Elihu

    BURRITT, Elihu. New Britain, Conn. 8.12.1810 — ibid. 6.3.1879. “The Learned Blacksmith”. U.S. Literate interested in Sanskrit. Son ...

  • BURROW, Reuben

    BURROW, Reuben. Hoberley, near Shadwell, Leeds 30.12.1747 — Baxar, Bihar 7.6.1792. British Mathematician in India. ...

  • BURROW, Thomas

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

  • BURROWS, Lionel Burton

    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 ...

  • 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 B., Professor of Naval History, and Mary Anna Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner. Educated at Eton, studies ...

  • BURT, Thomas Seymour

    BURT, Thomas Seymour. 1805 — Cotmandene, Dorking, Surrey 8/9.3.1890. British Colonial Officer in India. Possibly ...

  • BURTON, Richard

    BURTON, Richard Francis. Barnham House, Hertfordshire 19.3.1821 — Trieste 20.10.1890 (Dingle & Garrett: ...

  • BURY, John Bagnell

    BURY, John Bagnell. Clontibret, co. Monaghan 16.10.1861 — Rome 1.6.1927. British (Irish) Classical ...

  • BUSCHARDT, Leo

    BUSCHARDT, Leo Maxim. Copenhagen 24.8.1906 — Copenhagen 11.3.1966. Danish Indologist. Librarian in Copenhagen. Son of ...

  • 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 at Göttingen, ...
  • BUSHELL, Stephen Wootton

    BUSHELL, Stephen Wootton. Ash-next-Sandwich, Kent 28.7.1844 — Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex 19.9.1908. British Physician ...

  • BUSSAGLI, Mario

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

  • BUTLER, John (Captain)

    BUTLER, John. India? 1843? — Lak Nuti near Gologhat, Assam 7.1.1876, when 33. British Colonial ...

  • BUTLER, John (Colonel)

    BUTLER, John. Lip hot, Hampshire 1809 — Hampshire 22.5.1874. British Colonial Officer in India. Served in ...

  • BUTLIN, Raymond Thomas

    BUTLIN, Raymond Thomas. 6.2.1906/07 — Knysma, South Africa 15.11.1990. British Phonetician. Taught at S.O.A.S. From 1939 Sub-Director of Institute of English Studies in Athens. ...

  • BUTTERWORTH, Allan

    BUTTERWORTH, Alan (or Allan). Southport, Lancashire 25.7.1864 — London 25.5.1937. British Civil Servant ...

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