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…
BEVERIDGE, Henry. Dunfermline, Fife 19.6.1799 — Culross, Fife 18.3.1863. 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 for ministry, but turned to law. Worked as advocate and author, from…
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 (1803–1869), an industrialist from Yorkshire, a middle-class Unitarian family. She was educated at Bedford College in London in 1862-67. In…
BETH, Ali. Almelo 2.2.1911 — 1989. Dutch Indologist. Daughter of Hermanus Johannes Elisa Beth (1880–1952), 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…
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. Still active in 1929. Publications: Precetti alla sposa. Versione…
BESKROVNYJ, Vasilij Matveevič. Šejkovka (Šijkivka), Harkovskaja gub., 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 (under A. P. Barannikov), Kand. filologičeskih nauk 1943. Naučnyj sotrudnik at Oriental Institute, Academy of Science, Leningrad from 1932, staršij naučnyj sotrudnik.…
BESCHI, Constantino Gioseffo Eusebio (Constanzo B., Constantinus Beschius, Dhairya Nathan, Vīra-māmuṉivar). Castiglione delle Stiviere near Mantua 8.11.1680 — Ambalakkadu near Cranganore, Kerala 4.2.1747. S.J. Italian Jesuit missionary and Tamil scholar. Nearly 40 years in India. Educated at Jesuit school in Mantua. Novice of S.J. 1698, then studies in Ravenna and…
BESANT, Annie (née Wood). London 1.10.1847 — Adyar (Madras) 19.9.1933. British Theosophist. Daughter of William Burton Perse Wood (1816–1852) and Emily Mary Roche Morris (1817?–1874), an English-Irish family. Lost early her father, educated privately in England, Germany and France. Married Rev. Frank Besant (1840?–1917) in 1867, but was legally separated…
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…
BERTHOLET(-SCHMID), Alfred Robert Felix. Basel 9.11.1868 — Münsterlingen, Thurgau 24.8.1951. Swiss Reformed Theologian and Scholar of Comparative Religion in Germany. Professor in Göttingen and Berlin. Son of David Felix Bertholet (1830–1906), a school director, and Sabine Wagner (1841–1894). Studies of Theology at Basel, also briefly at Strassburg (Nöldeke) and Berlin…