BROŽOVÁ, Marie. Prague 1.8.1897 — 19??. Czechoslovakian Student of IE Linguistics. Studies at Prague under Zubatý, Ph.D. there 1920/21. Then English translator. From 1928 worked in the editorial staff of Masaryk Czech encyclopaedia writing on English, Nordic and Oriental literature (still 1939). Publications: Diss. Liquida sonarus v řad’ o. 1920/21. Sources:…
BROWNE, James. 1744 — Patna 22.6.1792. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Joined Indian army in 1765, 1772 aide-de-camp of Warren Hastings. “Collector of the Jungleterry districts, 1773; had difficult work in administering the country and settling disturbances. Sent by the Council on an embassy to Shah Alam at Delhi…
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 Cambridge. Son of Sir Benjamin Chapman Browne (1839–1917), a civil engineer, and Annie Atkinson. Educated at Trinity College in Glenalmond and at Eton. Studies at Pembroke College,…
BROWN, William Norman. Baltimore, Md. 24.6.1892 — West Chester PA. 22.4.1975. U.S. Indologist. Son of the missionary scholar —> G. W. Brown (1870–1932), through his mother (Virginia Archer, née Clark. 1855–1954) half-brother of —> J. C. Archer (1881–1957). At the age of eight he went to Central India with his…
BROWN, William. 1??? — 18??. British Colonial Officer in India. Captain, of the Revenue Survey (mentioned in 1822/42), in Dehra Dun. In 1828 surveyed Saharanpur, in 1842 Ludhiana. In 1842 he was Major. Publications: “Account of an ancient temple at Hissar, and of the ship model at that place”, JASB…
BROWN, William. 1757/67? — 1837. British Civil Servant in India. Senior merchant in Madras in the 1810s, in 1817 decribed himself as “many years resident in Northern Sircars”. Completed his dictionary, with the help of Telugu pandits, in 1807. Publications: Anonymously published: A Grammar of Gentoo Language, as it is…
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 Megasthenes. Professor in Los Angeles. Son of Carleton Fairchild Brown (1869–1941), Professor of English, and Emily Truesdell (d. 1917). After Haverford College (1922-23) studied at Harvard (A.B.…
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. From 1810 studies at St. John’s College, Cambridge (B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820). Ordained deacon 1815, priest 1818. Some time in orders, in 1834 nominated to the vicarage…
BROWN, Percy. Birmingham 1872 (or Calcutta 22.11.1871) — Srinagar 22.3.1955. British Art Historian in India. Son of Joseph Henry Sansum Brown (1843–1913) and Annie Elizabeth Morgan. Educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Birmingham, then at Royal College of Art in London, graduated 1898. Excavated for the Egypt Exploration…
BROWN, George William. Hartford co., Maryland 25.10.1870 — West Hartford, CT (?) 4.12.1932. U.S. Missionary and Indologist. Son of a farmer in Hartford co., Maryland. Studies at Hiram College in Ohio, A.B. 1897, M.A. 1898. In 1897-98 taught at Central Christian College in Albany, Missouri, 1898-1900 Superintendent od Public Schools…