BEGLAR, Joseph David(itch) Freedone Melik (Beglarian). Dacca (Dhaka) 1840 — 24.4.1907. Armenian-Indian Archaeologist in India. Son of David Fridomitch Beglar (d. 1884) of Chinsura, an Armenian nobleman who came to India 1813, and his wife Khatchkhatun, after Hooghly College trained at Calcutta Civil Engineering College as civil engineer. Assistant of…
BEER, Eduard Friedrich Ferdinand. Bautzen, Upper Lusatia 15.6.1805 — Leipzig 5.4.1841. German Epigraphist and Semitic Scholar, a Pioneer of Cuneiform Studies. Son of a master tailor, Leonhard Beer (1775–1827) and Erdmuthe Eleonora Dorothea Apelt. Gymnasium in Bautzen. Studied Oriental languages at Leipzig from 1824-33. Father’s death in 1827 brought financial…
BECKH, Christoph Eugen Hermann. Nürnberg 4.5.1875 — Stuttgart 1.3.1937. German Indologist and Tibetan Scholar, later turned into Anthroposophist Priest. Son of a factory owner, Heinrich Eugen Beckh (1848–1920), and Marie Eleonore Katharine Seiler (1853–1943). Studied economy and law at the Maximilianeum of Munich until 1896 and worked as assessor, but…
BECKER, Christophorus (born Christoph Edmund B.). Elsoff near Frankfurt 22.10.1875 — Würzburg 30.3.1937. S.D.S. German Catholic Missionary in India and Scholar of Missiology and Indian Ethnography. A Salvatorian from the age of 14. Studied philosophy and theology in Rome, dr.theol. and ordained priest 1898. Docent 1900 in Meran. Also Dr.phil.…
BECHTEL, Fritz (Friedrich). Durlach 2.2.1855 — Halle 9.3.1924. German IE Scholar. Professor in Göttingen and Halle. Son of Johann Friedrich Bechtel (1822–1911), a Lutheran deacon, and Emilie Auguste Harrer. After a brief time of theology at Heidelberg studied at Göttingen IE linguistics under Benfey, Bezzenberger, A. Fick, et al. Ph.D.…
BECCARINI-CRESCENZI, Elena. 189? — 19??. Italian Poet and Translator interested in Sanskrit. Born of (or married to) an old noble family of Siena. A student of Pavolini at Florence, graduated 1915. Then lived in Frascati. Still active in the 1950s. Publications: Translated: “Il dramma della Sacra di Rāma (Abhiṣekanāṭaka) composito…
BEAMES, John William. Greenwich 21.6.1837 — Clevedon, Somerset 24.5.1902. British Civil servant and Indologist in India, a Pioneer of Comparative NIA Studies. Served in India in 1858-93. The eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Beames (1815–1864) and Susanna Amelia Dewsnap (1811–1868). Educated first at Merchant Taylor’s School, then 1856-57 at…
BEAMAN, George Burnham. Cincinnati, Ohio 1.4.1870 — 12.2.1942. U.S. Teacher and Student of Indology in Germany. Son of Rev. Edmund Addison Beaman (1811–1908), a Swedenborgian minister, and Sarah Vorhees Parsons (1833–1916). Educated in Cincinnati, studies at University of Cincinnati (B.A. 1893). In August 1893 left for Europe, studied first at…
BEAL, Samuel. Devonport 27.11.1825 — Greens Norton, Northamptonshire 20.8.1889. British Priest, Sinologist and Buddhist Scholar. Although a priest, he was no missionary like most Sinologists of his time especially in the U.K. Son of the Rev. William Beal (d. 1872), a Wesleyan minister. Educated at Kingswood and Devonport schools and…
BAZIN-FOUCHER, Émile Eugénie Marguerite Virginie (“Éna”). Chesnay (Yvelines) 7.10.1889 — Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine) 30.1.1952. French Art Historian. Originally studied English at Sorbonne, then 1915-18 Indology at E.P.H.E. under S. Lévi. She married —> A. Foucher (1865–1952) in 1919 in Colombo, on way to India. Some say that she had apparently met…