BARUCH, Willy. Herford, Kr. Detmold 1900 — Montfavet, Avignon ?.3.1954. German Indologist, Sinologist, Tibetan, Buddhist and Central Asian Scholar in France. 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…
BARTUS, Bernard August Theodor Ludwig. 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, Carl Bartus (Bartos), and Marie Charlotte Friederike Lorenz. He had been a sailor and a squatter in Australian outback,…
BARTOLI, Matteo Giulio. Albona, Istria (then Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Labin in Croatia) 22.11.1873 — Turin 23.1.1946. Italian Linguist. Son of Vincenzo Bartoli (1840–1926) and Giulia Palisca (1843–1908). Gymnasium in Capodistria, studies in Vienna. Ph.D. 1898 Vienna (Meyer-Lübke). Also studied at Strassburg (Hübschmann) and Paris (Gilliéron). After a short time as…
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 Docente di 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 of Asian history. Magistr…
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 Couyat. 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…
BARTHOLOMAE, Friedrich Christian Leonhard. Forsthaus in Forstleithen bei Limmersdorf, Landkreis Kulmbach 21.1.1855 — Langeoog, Ostfriesland 9.8.1925. German IE and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Münster, Giessen, and Heidelberg. Son of a forester (Oberforster) Leonhard Bartholomae (d. 1859) and Maria Friederike Aichinger. Gymnasium in Bayreuth. From 1872 studied IE, Indian and Iranian…
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BARTHÉLEMY-SAINT-HILAIRE, Jules. Paris 19.8.1805 — Paris 24.11.1895. French Philosopher, Classical Scholar and Politician, also interested in Indology and Indian Thought. Born as illegitimate, according to much later unconfirmed rumours the son of Napoleon I. After Lycée Louis-le-Grand, in 1825-28 he served in Ministry of Finances, then as a journalist in…
BARTHÉLEMY, Adrien Léon Nicolas. Paris 24.8.1859 — Emancé (Rambouillet) 18.12.1949. French Iranian and Arabic Scholar. Son of a confectioner, lost early his father. After Lycée Charlemagne studied at É.L.O.V. Arabic, Turkish, and Persian, at É.P.H.É. Sanskrit and Avestan (under Darmesteter), graduated 1884 with a thesis on the Pehlevi Gujastak Abalish.…