BORTOLAZZI, Bortolo Maria. Bassano (Veneto) 25.3.1806 — 8.1.1879. Italian interested in Sanskrit. Of a Venetian noble family living in Bassano, son of Francesco Bortolazzi and Marianna Breda. No biography is available, but he died in his native district. Pagine Friuliane calls him professor and “noto orientalista”. Only one Indological work…
BORKOWSKI, Aleksander (Leszek) Ferdynand Wincenty Dunin (Dunin B., Al.). Gródek, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Horodok in Ukraine) 11.1.1811 — Lemberg (Lwów, now L’viv) 30.11.1896. Count. Polish Politician, Poet and Author, who translated Bhartṛhari’s poems into Polish. Son of Franciszek Antoni Dunin Borkowski (1773–1860) and Franciszka Anna Dzieduszycka, brother of poet Jozef Dunin…
BORK, Ferdinand A. Forsthaus bei Königsbruch, Kr. Tuchel, Westpreussen (now in Poland) 26.11.1871 — Benhausen, Paderborn 28.2.1962. German Scholar of Ancient Near East, also interested in Indo-Iranian. Son of forester Ferdinand Bork and Ottilie Zimmermann. Gymnasium in Marienburg (West Prussia), matriculated 1892. Studies of geography and languages at Königsberg, until…
BORECKÝ, Jaromír. Buddies (now České Budějovice) 6.8.1869 — Prague 8.5.1951. Czech Poet, Translator and Librarian, listed as an Oriental scholar by Heyne and apparently knew some Sanskrit and certainly Persian. Son of Jan Ludvik Borecký (1827–1912) and Anna Isáková. He is said (by Bečka) to have been a student of…
BORÉ, Eugène. Angers (Maine-et-Loire) 15.8.1809 — Paris 3.5.1878. French Orientalist, especially Armenian Scholar. Son of a lawyer who died in 1812, in 1828 also lost his mother. Educated in Angers and Paris (Collège Stanislas), then studied languages: Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Persian, Hebrew, Syriac and in 1833 Sanskrit. In 1833-34 Professor…
BOPP, Franz. Mainz 14.9.1791 — Berlin 23.10.1867. German Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Berlin. Born in a Roman Catholic family, son of a civil servant, Andreas Bopp (1765?–1840), and Regina Linck (d. 1820). Grew up in Aschaffenburg, where he had K. Windischmann as his teacher at the local Gymnasium, then…
BONER, Alice. Legnano, Lombardy 22.7.1889 — Zürich 13.4.1981. Swiss Artist (Sculptor) and Art Historian of India. Born in Italy of Swiss-English parents, engineer Georg Boner (1862–1947) and Alice Kathrine Brown. School in Italy, the family moved back to Switzerland only in 1911. Received training in sculpture and painting in Basel,…
BOMPAS, Cecil Henry. London 31.5.1868 — Broughton, Hampshire 22.1.1956. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry Mason Bompas (barrister and judge, 1836–1909) and Rachel Henrietta Wise (d. 1923). Educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge. Joined I.C.S. in 1887, arrived in India 1889. Served as Assistant Magistrate and Collector…
BOLTZ, August Constantin. Breslau 26.9.1819 — Jugenheim bei Darmstadt 1.5.1907. German Literate, Language Teacher and Translator interested in Sanskrit. Gymnasium in Breslau, then worked in trade and studied languages. As tutor of an aristocrat St.Petersburg family travelled around Europe (1839-42), then teacher in St.Petersburg. Ph.D. 1845 Jena. In 1852-64 taught…
BOLLER, Johann Anton. Krems an der Donau 2.1.1811 — Vienna 19.1.1869. Austrian Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Vienna. Born as illegitimate child of Joseph Boller, a brewer and distiller, and maid Maria Anna Amsiess, but in 1817 his parents got finally married. School in Krems. Studied from 1831 at Vienna…