BEYER, Kurt

BEYER, Kurt. 18?? — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. Bonn 1923. Publications: Diss. Das Nominalkompositum im Aitareyabrāhmaṇa und in den Gṛhyasūtren (Âsvalāyana-, Gobhila- und Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra). Manuscript of 57 p. Bonn 1923, specimen publ. in Jb. d. phil. Fak. Bonn 1:1, 43-46. Sources: Diss. in Janert; not in N.D.B., Dt.…

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BEVERIDGE, Henry

BEVERIDGE, Henry. Inzievar, Fife 9.2.1837 — London 8.11.1929. British (Scottish) Historian of Mughal and Colonial India. Son of the elder —> Henry Beveridge (1799–1863). Educated in Glasgow and Edinburgh, studies at Glasgow Uni­ver­sity and from 1856 at Queen’s College in Belfast. Joined the I.C.S. through competition in 1857, and served…

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BEVERIDGE, Henry

BEVERIDGE, Henry. Scotland 1799 — 1863. The Elder. British (Scottish) Lawyer and Historian of Colonial India. Father of —> Henry Beveridge the younger (1837–1929), himself son of David Beveridge (1770–1836) and Margaret Thomson. Originally intended ministry, but turned to law. Worked as advocate and author, from 1856 the editor of…

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BEVERIDGE, Annette Susannah (née Akroyd)

BEVERIDGE, Annette Susannah (née Akroyd). Stourbridge, Worcestershire 13.12.1842 — London 27.3.1929. British Oriental (Persian and Eastern Turkish) Scholar. Wife of —> Henry Beveridge (the younger, 1837–1929). Daughter of William Akroyd, an industrialist from Yorkshire, a middle-class Unitarian family. She was educated at Bedford College in London in 1862-67. In 1872…

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BETH, Ali

BETH, Ali. Almelo 2.2.1911 — 1989. Dutch Indologist. Daughter of Hermanus Johannes Elisa Beth, a teacher, and Hillegje de Groot. Studied classics and Sanskrit at Utrecht. Wrote her dr. dissertation there on Sanskrit in 1943 (under Gonda). In the mid-1940s taught classical lan­guages in a gymnasium in the Hague and…

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BETTEI, Vittorio

BETTEI, Vittorio. Padova 15.9.1859 (or 1860?) — 19??. Italian Indologist and Classical Scholar. Teacher (“professor”) of Latin and Greek in Avellino (1895), at Ginnasio Benedetto Cairoli in Vigevano (in the beginning of the 20th century) and at R. Liceo di Treviso. Publications: Precetti alla sposa. Versione dal sanscrito. Padova 1890.…

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BESKROVNYJ, Vasilij Matveevič

BESKROVNYJ, Vasilij Matveevič. Šejkovka (Šijkivka), Harkovskaja obl., Ukraine 24.5. (6.6.)1908 — Moscow 1.4.1978. Russian (Ukrainian?) Indologist, specialist in Hindi/Urdu. From 1926 studies at Leningrad Oriental Institute: graduated 1930, Kand. filol. nauk 1943. Naučnyj sotrudnik at Oriental Institute, Academy of Science, Leningrad from 1932, staršij naučnyj sotrudnik. 1943. In 1936-38 taught…

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BESANT, Annie

BESANT, Annie (née Wood). London 1.10.1847 — Adyar (Madras) 19.9.1933. British Theosophist. Daughter of William Burton Persse Wood (1816–1852) and Emily Morris, an English-Irish family. Lost early her father, educated privately in England, Germany and France. Married Rev. Frank Besant (d. 1917) in 1867, but was legally separated from him…

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BERTRAND, François-Marie, l’abbé

BERTRAND, François-Marie, l’abbé. Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne) 26.10. 1807 — Versailles 30.1.1881. French Indologist (Hindi scholar) and Catholic priest. Studies at Seminaire St.Sulpice in Versailles. Served long time as minister in Herblay, 1837-56, then canon in Versailles. His opinions were heavily criticized by the conservatives, and he was generally wary of letting…

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