BASTON, Albert. 18?? — 19??. French Indologist. Probably a student of S. Lévi. Agrégé de l’université (1914). Still active in 1925. Publications: “La Saundarananda kāvya d’Açvaghoṣa”, JA 10:19, 1912, 79-100 (with chants 1-2 tr. in French); Notes on the Saundarananda by Gawronski, JA 206, 1925, 337f. – Translated: Le théatre…
BASTIAN, Philipp Wilhelm 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 merchant family, son of Hermann Theodor Bassus and Auguste Krafft. Studied biology and medicine at Berlin, Jena, Würzburg (under Virchow) and Prague (dr. med. 1850).…
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 at Barcelona and Madrid. In 1926-32 Professor of Latin at the universities of Sevilla and Granada, at Barcelona from 1932. Publications: Sintaxis Latina. 1-2. 18+408, 13+456 p.…
BASHAM, Arthur Llewellyn. Loughton, Essex 24.5.1914 — Calcutta 27.1.1986. British Indologist in Australia. Professor in London and Canberra. Son of a journalist, Abraham Arthur Edward B., who had also served in Indian army, and Maria Jane Thompson, also a journalist and writer, educated at Gorleston School. Began his career as…
BARUCH, Willy. Herford, Kr. Detmold 1900 — Montfavet, Avignon ?.3.1954. German Indologist, Sinologist, Buddhist and Central Asian Scholar. Born of a Jewish family in Westfalen. Studies at Berlin and Leipzig, student of Lüders and F. Weller, then of Kirfel at Bonn. Ph.D. 1937 Bonn. Leaving Germany he was living in…
BARTUS, Theodor. Lassan near Greifswald 30.1.1858 — Berlin 28.1.1941. German, Assistant to the Berlin Ethnological Museum, participated in all four Prussian Turfan expeditions 1902–14. Son of a Pomeranian weaver, he had been sailor and a squatter in Australian outback, but returned to Germany and, after losing his money in a bankrupt…
BARTOLI, Matteo Giulio. Albona, Istria (now Labin in Croatia) 22.11.1873 — Turin 23.1.1946. Italian Linguist. Ph.D. Vienna (Meyer-Lübke). Also studied at Strassburg (Hübschmann) and Paris (Gilliéron). After a short time as eo. at Pisa 1907-08 he was in 1908-46 Professor of Linguistics at Turin. He was the only linguist who…
BARTOLI, Emilio. 2.10.1861 — 19??. Italian Indologist and Translator of Sanskrit Literature. Student of Kerbaker at Naples. In the 1910s teacher (“professor”) of Latin and Greek at the R. Liceo Vittorio Emanuele in Naples, earlier perhaps in Bari. In 1923-25 and 1934-35 PD of Grammatica comparata delle lingue classiche e…
BARTOL’D, Vasilij Vladimirovič (Wilhelm Barthold). St.Petersburg 3(15).11.1869 — Leningrad 19.8.1930. Russian Scholar of Central Asian History and Geography, one of the most famous of his time. Born of a Russianized German family. School and from 1891 studies at St.Petersburg, first of Oriental languages, from 1892 also Asian history. Magistr 1893,…
BARTHOUX (Couyat-Barthoux), Jules Pierre (or Jules-J.). Étroussat (Aller) 22.7.1881 — 1965. French Geologist and Archaeologist. Born as Jules Couyat, son of Anne C. Worked as geologist in Morocco, Egypt and Arabia, collaborated with the French Archaeological Institute in Cairo. Dr.-ès-sciences 1922 Lille. He succeeded Foucher in 1923 in charge of the D.A.F.A. in…