BOGDAN-DUICĂ, Gheorghe (born Gh. Bogdan). Brassó/Kronstadt, Hungary (now Braşov in Romania)) 2.1.1866 — Braşov 21.9.1931. Romanian Literate interested in Indian Literature. Son of a poor merchant, Ioan Bogdan and Elena Munteanu. After school in Braşov from 1885 studies at Budapest, Jena and Vienna (but degree only at Bucharest 1897). Then…
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BÖHTLINGK, Otto Nikolaus von (Russian Otto Nikolaevič Betlingk). St.Petersburg 11.6.(30.5.)1815 — Leipzig 1.4.1904. Russian (German) Indologist. Born in St.Petersburg as a Dutch citizen in a family (father Nikolaus Dietrich Böhtlingk, 1773–1839, a merchant), which originally came from Lübeck, his mother, Maria Wilhelmina Strahlboin (died soon after his birth), was a…
BÖHM, Annie Karoline. Mährisch Ostrau (Moravská Ostrava in Czech) 17.8.1893 — Haifa, Israel 11.9.1985. Austrian Student of IE Linguistics. Daughter of Dr. Max Böhm and Adele Wolf. Ph.D. 1921 Vienna. Then editor of the Neue Weinzeitung. Moved to Israel and worked 15 years as secretary to Ata in Kfar Ata,…
BOEHLING, Georg. Rodenberg, Kreis Rinteln 28.10.1854 — Hannover 3.6.1912. German Teacher and former Student of IE Linguistics. Studies at Göttingen, Berlin, Königsberg and Marburg. Ph.D. 1882 Marburg. Then worked as teacher at St.Petersburg University, later at Technische Hochschule Hannover. Is he the same G. B., who later wrote the book…
BODEN, Joseph. 17?? — Lisbon 21.11.1811. British Colonial Officer. Founder of the famous Boden chair of Sanskrit at Oxford University. Entered the Bombay Native Army in 1781 as Lieutenant, held appointments in the staff in Bombay, and was member of the Military Board. Lieutenant-colonel 1806, retired in 1807 and moved…
BODE, Mabel Kate Haynes (née Haynes). 28.10.1864 — Shaftesbury, Dorset 20.1.1922. British Indologist (Pāli scholar). Daughter of Robert William Haynes (d. 1879), a lawyer and law publisher, and his wife Emily (d. 1870). Educated at Notting Hill High School for Girls in London. In 1888 married William Ernest Bode, an…
BODDING, Paul Olaf. Gjøvik, Oppland 2.11.1865 — Odense, Denmark 25.9.1938. Rev. Norwegian Missionary and Munda Scholar in India, lived long time among the Santals. Son of a bookseller, Edvard Olsen Bodding, and Betzy Emilie Wennevold. After meeting —> L. O. Skrefsrud in his father’s shop he decided to become a…
BOCHINGER, Jean-Jacques (Johann Jacob B.). Strasbourg 28.11.1802 — Strasbourg 12.8.1831. Alsatian Protestant Theologian. Of humble origin, son of Jean Bochinger, a weaver, and Christine Madeleine Lutz. Studies at Protestant Seminary and Theological Faculty of Strasbourg, then at Heidelberg and Göttingen. For a while, 1824-26, private tutor in Lyon, then further…
BOBRINSKOY, George Vladimir (Russian Georgij Vladimirovič Bobrinskoj). Tula, Russia 23.1.1901 — Franklin, Mass. 15/17.11.1985. U.S. (Russian born) Indologist. Professor in Chicago. Born in Russia as the son of Count Vladimir Alekseevič Bobrinskoj and Maria Nikonova. In the Russian civil war fought in the army of Denikin, but soon left Russia,…