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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 ...

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. Sir (1960). British Indo-Iranian Scholar, Famous Specialist of the Khotan Saka. Professor in ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

BARTH, Marie-Étienne-Auguste. Strasbourg 22.3.1834 — Paris 15.4.1916. French Indologist. Born ...

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.

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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 — Keymer, Sussex 30.4.1884. Sir. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Antiquarian Studies. Only son ...

BAYNES, Herbert. 18?? — 19??. British Scholar of Indian Religions, a Theosophist. He was a member of the R.A.S. from 1885, ...

BAZIN-FOUCHER, Eugénie. 1889 — 30.1.1952. French Art-Historian. Originally studied English, then Indology under S. Lévi. In 1919 in Ceylon she married —> A. ...

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

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 Swedenborgian minister, and Sarah ...

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

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

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

BECKER, Christophorus Edmund. Würzburg 28.10.1875 (or Eisoff near Frankfurt 22.10.) — 21.4.1937 (or 30.3.. S.D.S. German Catholic Missionary in India and Scholar of Missiology and ...

BECKH, Christoph Eugen Hermann. Nürnberg 4.5.1875 — Stuttgart 1.3.1937. German Indologist and Tibetan ...

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

BEGLAR, Joseph David(itch) Melik. 18?? — 1???. Armenian Archaeologist in India. Son of David Fridomitch B. of Chinsura, trained at Calcutta Civil Engineering ...

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, Harry Charles Purvis. India ...

BELLASIS, Augustus Fortunatus. India 1822 — 1872. British Civil Servant in India (Bombay Presidemcy) from 1842, served as Collector and Magistrate of Hyderabad ...

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

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 Firenze and Pisa. A student of Pullé ...

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 — Berlin 6.12.1860. German Classical and IE ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

BENNETT, A. A. G. 1??? — 1???. Mrs. In Maha Bodhi Society, active in 1956/66.

Publications: ...

BENNETT, Charles Henry Allan (Ananda Metteyya Thera). London 8.12.1872 — 9.3.1923. British Bauddha. Son of an engineer, studied science (analytical chemistry). Interested in Buddhism in 1890 after reading Arnold’s The Light of Asia. ...

BENNETT, Charles Henry Allan (Ananda Metteyya Thera). London 8.12.1872 — 9.3.1923. British Bauddha. Son of an engineer, studied science (analytical chemistry). Interested in Buddhism in 1890 after reading Arnold’s The Light of Asia. ...

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

BENVENISTE, Émile. Aleppo, Syria 25.2. or 27.4.1902 — Paris 3.10.1976. French Iranian scholar and Linguist. Professor in Paris. Son of Professor ...

BEREZOVSKIJ, Mihail Mihailovič. 1848 — 1912. Russian Traveller in Central Asia. rom 1976 repeatedly with Potanin in Mongolia, starting as zoologist and botanist, ...

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

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

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

BERGMANN, Benjamin Fürchtegott Balthasar von. Arrasch, Livonia 17.11.1772 — Blussen b. Wenden 16.8.1856. German (Livonian) Priest and Traveller, a Pioneer of Lamaist Studies. ...

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, A. V. 18?? — 19??. British? Ph.D.

Publications: “Notes on some ...

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. L.A. 10.12.1908 — Kosar, Pakistan 1947. U.S. Bauddha. Graduated at the University of Arizona Law School (L.L.B. 1931) and Columbia ...

BERNEKER, Erich. Königsberg 3.2.1874 — Munich 15/20.3.1937. German Linguist, mainly Slavic, but also IE Scholar. Studies of Germanic at Freiburg i.Br. and of ...

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 — 2.5.1992. Dutch Art Historian and South-East Asian Scholar, long time in Indonesia. Studies at Leiden, Ph.D. ...

BERNHARD, Franz. Schweidnitz/Schlesien 31.5.1931 — Mustang/Nepal 5.9. 1971. German Indologist. Professor in Hamburg. Son of a butcher from Silesia. Studied at ...

BERNHEIMER, Carlo. Livorno 1877 — 1966. Italian (Jewish) Indologist and Palaeographist. From Leghorn, taught from 1906 as Docent of Sanskrit at ...

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 was 8 years physician ...

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

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

BERNŠTAM, Aleksandr Natanovič. v Kerči 1.(14.)10.1910 — 10.12.1956 (when 47). Russian Central Asian Archaeologist. Graduated 1931 from Leningrad Inst. of History, Philology and Linguistics. Kand. ...

BERNSTEIN, Georg Heinrich. Kospeda near Jena 12.1.1787 —Lauban, Silesia 5.4.1860. German Orientalist, mainly a Syriac Scholar, but also interested in Sanskrit. Professor in ...

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

BERTHOLET, Alfred Robert Felix. Basel 9.11.1868 — Münsterlingen 24.8.1951. Swiss Scholar of Comparative Religion and reformed theologian in Germany. Professor in Göttingen and ...

BERTRAND, François-Marie, l’abbé. Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne) 26.10. 1807 — Versailles 30.1.1881. French Indologist (Hindi) ...

BESANT, Annie (née Wood). London 1.10.1847 — Adyar (Madras) 19.9.1933. British Theosophist. Daughter of William Page Wood and Emily Morris, educated privately in England, ...

BESCHI, Constantino Gioseffo Eusebio (Constanzo B., Constantinus Beschius, Vîra-mâmunivar). Castiglione delle Stiviere near Mantua 8.11.1680 — Ambalakat near Cranganore 4.2.1747. S.J. ...

BESKROVNYJ, Vasilij Matveevič. v Šejkovke, Harkovskaja obl. 24.5. (6.6.)1908 — 1978. Russian (Ukrainian?) Indologist, specialist in Hindi/Urdu. Studies in Leningrad: graduated ...

BETH, Ali. Almelo 1911 — 1989. Ms. Dutch Indologist. Studied classics and Sanskrit at Utrecht. Wrote her dissertation there on ...

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

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

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 —> Henry B., husband of ...

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

Publications:BEYTHAN, Hermann

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

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

BHARATI, Agehananda (Leopold Fischer), Swami. Wien 20.4.1923 — New York 14.5.1991. Austrian born Indologist, Tantric Scholar and Anthropologist, for a long ...

BIANCHI, Ugo. Cavriglia, Arezzo 13.10.1922 — Firenzuola 14.4.1995. Italian Scholar of Iranian Religion. Studies in Rome under Pettazzoni. From 1954 PD ...

BICKEL, Gustav Wilhelm Hugo. Kassel 7.7.1838 — Wien 25.1.1906. German Orientalist (Semitic Scholar) in Austria. Son of Johann Wilhelm B., Professor ...

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

BIDDULPH, Charles Hubert. Abu, Rajasthan 28.7.1898 — 11.10.1966. British Engineer and Numismatist in India. Educated at Philander Smith College in Nainital ...

BIDDULPH, John. Ledbury 25.7.1840 — Gray Court, London 31.17.1921. British Colonial Officer and Anthropologist in India. Son of Robert B., educated ...

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

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. 1865 — 1944. Sir. British Colonial Officer. Son of Peregrine Taylor B., educayed at Kensington School and Sandhurst. Served in ...

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

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

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 8.12.1834 — 28.6.1917. British Colonial Physician in India interested in Science and in Colonial History. Son 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. Liverpool 3.2.1803 — Homburg-les-Bains 10.8.1865. British Orientalist (Persian Scholar). Son of Nath. Bland, who was of Irish origin, but had changed ...

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

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. Jarosław 15.2.1858 — 17.9.1916. Polish Linguist (IE and Slavic). Studies of classical and Slavic philology at Cracow, sudent of Lucjan Malinowski. ...

BLATT, Heinrich. 10.3.1894 — 19??. German Indologist. Librarian in Würzburg. Studies of classical philology. Ph.D. 1923 Erlangen. From 1927 he was ...

BLATTER, Edelbert (or Ethelbert). Romanshorn, Appenzell 15.12.1874 — Pune 26.5.1934. S.J. Swiss Missionary Scholar in India. School in Schwyz. Joined S.J. 1896, studied ...

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

BLAU, Ernst Otto Friedrich August (or Hermann). Nordhausen 21.4.1828 — Odessa 26.2.1879. German Diplomat and Oriental Scholar. Son of ...

BLAVATSKY, Helena Petrovna (née Hahn, Russian Jelena Petrovna Blavatskaja, née Gan). Ekaterinoslav 12.8.1831 — London 9.5. 1891. Russian Founder of the Theosophical Society. ...

BLEECK, Arthur Henry. 1827? — Kensington 27.1.1877. British Orientalist. known of his remarkable linguistic talent (but translating Spiegel’s German Avesta is not so ...

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

BLEICHSTEINER, Robert. Vienna 6.1.1891 — Vienna 10.4.1954. Austrian Linguist, Scholar of Iranian and Caucasian Languages and Ethnology. School and studies in Vienna. Ph.D. ...

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

BLOCH, Ernst Theodor. Christiansfeld, Schleswig 8.5.1867 — 20.10.1909. German Indologist. Born as a ...

BLOCH, Jules. Paris 1.5.1880 — Sèvres (Seine-et-Oise) 9.11.1953. French Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Paris. Son of a Jewish merchant, Salomon ...

BLOCHET, Gabriel Joseph Edgar. Bourges 12.12.1870 — 5.9.1937. French Oriental (Arabic and Iranian) Scholar and Historian of Religions. After ...

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

BLOMBERG, Carl Johan. Ljusdal 29.5.1838 — Härnösand 15.3.1890. Swedish School-Teacher interested in Sanskrit. Teacher in Härnösand. Son of a mayor. From 1855 studies at Uppsala, ...

BLONAY, Godefroy Jean Henry Louis de, baron. Niederschoenthal, Füllingsdorf 25.7.1869 — Biskra, Algeria ...

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

BLOOMFIELD, Maurice (born Blumenfeld). Bielitz, Austrian Silesia (now in Poland) 23.2.1855 — San Francisco CA 13.6.1928. U.S. (German Jewish Origin) Indologist. ...

BLUMHARDT, James Fuller. 18?? — 10.12.1922. British Indologist (NIA Scholar). M.A. Served long time in British Museum in the Dept. of Oriental Manuscripts ...

BLUNT, James Tillyer. 1765 — 1834. British Officer in India, visited Delhi. Cadet 1782, arrived in Bengal 1783. Served in Bengal Engineers as ...

BOAKE, William John Slade. Colombo 1844 — London 2.6.1889. Irish Civil Servant in Ceylon. Son ...

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

BOCHINGER, Jean-Jacques (Johann Jacob B.). Strasbourg 28.11.1802 — 1831. Alsatian Protestant Theologian. Of humble origin, studies at Protestant Seminary and Theological Faculty of ...

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

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

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

BOEHLING, Georg. 18?? — 1???. German Student of IE Linguistics. From Rodenberg, Kreis Rinteln. Ph.D. 1882 Marburg. Is he same G. B., who later ...

BOGDAN-DUICA, Gheorghe. Braşov (then Hungary) 2.1.1866 — Braşov 21.9.1931. Romanian Literate interested in Indian Literature. Son of a poor merchant. Fter studies worked ...

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

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 Königsberg. Son of a poor farmer ...

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

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

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

BOISACQ, Émile. Namur 26.11.1865 — Ixelles 2.6.1945. Belgian Linguist and Classical Scholar. Dr. philol. class. Bruxelles 1889, diss. on Dorian dialects 1891, further ...

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

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. Theden, Gelderland 24.3.1959. Dutch Indologist and Theosophist. Son of Gideon Maria B. and Louise Caroline ...

BOLLENSEN, Friedrich. Rossdorf, Kreis Göttingen 12.1.1809 — Wiesbaden 29.2.1896. German Indologist in Russia. Son of a farmer, attended the Gymnasium in ...

BOLLER, Johann Anton. Krems 2.1.1811 — Vienna 19.1.1869. Austrian Linguist interested in Sanskrit. ...

BOLLING, Friederic. 16?? — 1???. Norwegian or Danish Traveller in India. Born in Norway, son of Anders B. Student in Copenhagen, went to Amsterdam and ...

BOLLING, George Melville. Baltimore 13.4.1871 — Princeton N.J. 1963. U.S. Indologist. Professor of Classical Philology in Columbus. Son of William Nicholls ...

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

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 in a Roman Catholic family, grew ...

BORÉ, Eugène. Angers 15.8.1809 — Paris 3.5.1878. French Orientalist, especially Armenian Scholar. Rducated in Angers and Paris, studied languages. In 1837 he headed ...

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

BORECKÝ, Miloš. Prague 28.12.1904 — Washington DC, U.S.A. 18.3.1954. Czech Oriental (Iranian) Scholar in the U.S.A. Sin of —> J.B. In 1922-30 studies of Indo-Iranian ...

BORGSTRØM, Carl Hjalmar. Oslo 14.9.1909 — Oslo 14.9.1986. Norwegian Celtic and IE Linguist. Professor in Oslo. From 1928 studies of Celtic and comparative ...

BORK, Ferdinand A. Forsthaus bei Königsbruch/Kr. Tuchel 26.11.1871 — Benhausen 28.2. 1962. German Scholar of Ancient Near East, also interested in Indo-Iranian. Parents ...

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 ...

BORSANI SCALABRINO, Giuseppina. Milano 9.5.1910 — 22.2.1991. Italian Indologist. Professor in Milano. Studied Sanskrit at Catholic University of Milano under A. Ballini, graduated in 1933. ...

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 Mexico. Studies at Barcelona, lic. degree ...

BOSCH, Frederik David Kan. Potchefstroom, ...

BÖTTICHER, P. —> LAGARDE, Paul de.

BOUDA, Karl. Hamburg 1901 — Erlangen1979. German linguist and Caucasologist. From 1942 (ord. 1950) Professor at Erlangen. Worked on Caucasian, Basque and North-East ...

BOULNOIS, Jean Raymond Paul. 1904 — 19??. French Physician interested in India. Dr.Med. 1928 Bordeaux. In 1932-35 served as colonial physician at French ...

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

BOURQUIN, Auguste Ali. 18?? — 192?. French (or more probably Swiss) Protestant Priest and Indologist. In 1882 he was member of ...

BOWDEN, Ernest Monnington. Bapt. Rochford, Herefordshire 17.7.1859 — 3.4.1904. British Author and Inventor (Wikipedia calls ...

BOWER, Hamilton. 1.9.1858 — 5.3.1940. Sir. British (Scots) Colonial Officer and Traveller in Central Asia. Educated in Edinburgh and at Royal Naval School. ...

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

BOWREY (Bowry), Thomas. 1650? — 1713. British Sea Captain in the East. In India and South-East Asia in 1669-88 as sailing master, then ...

BOWRING, Lewin Bentham. Hackney, London 15.7.1824 — 14.1.1910. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Sir John B. (1792–1872), linguist, traveller, politician, diplomat, ...

BOXBERGER, Robert. Gotha 28.5.1836 — Stadtsulza 30.3.(30.4.?)1890. German Literate interested in Sanskrit. Son of a fireplace-maker, school in Erfurt, then studied 1855-58 philology at Jena. ...

BOXWELL, John. 18?? — 1891. British Civil Servant in India. In 1888 in Bengal Civil Service, some time

BOYD, Palmer. Simla, India 29.9.1840 — 1???. British Indologist. Son of the lieutenant-general Mossom Boyd of Bengal Army, joined himself first ...

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 ...

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 (Estonian) Indologist. Son of Georg v. B. (1796-1862), wirkl. Geheimrat and senator ...

BRADLEY, W. H. 18?? — 1???. British Physician in India. Dr.med. Assistant Surgeon (1837, 1846 in Ellichpoor) and Surgeon of Bombay Army (1853)

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

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

BRANDI, Mario. 1??? — 19??. Italian, probably a Theosophist, authored several mystic books, two in collaboration with Emma Tedeschi, both still active in ...

BRANDRETH, Joseph Edward Lyall. Liverpool 4.2.1823 — 10.12.1907. British Civil Servant and a ...

BRANFILL, Brydges Robinson. Upminster, Essex 22.11.1834 — Billericay, Essex 26.5.1905. British Colonial Officer in India. From 1854 in Bengal ...

BRASSAI, Sámuel. Torockó or Torockószentgyörgy 15.6.1797 or 13.2.1800 — Kolozsvár 27.6. 1897. Hungarian Philosopher and Polyhistor, who translated a specimen of the Hitopadeśa in 1884. ...

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, Metz and Paris (Lycée Louis-le-Grand), then ...

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

BREEKS, Susan Maria (née Denison). Woolwitch, Kent 1842 — 19??. Britishwoman in India, wife of —> J. W. Breeks. Daughter of Colonel Sir William ...

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)