BARDÓN Y GÓMEZ, Lázaro Silverio. Inicio, Riello, Léon 8.6.1817 — Collado Mediano, Madrid 9.6.1897. Spanish Priest and Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Born in the province of Léon, son of Juan Bardón de Rabanal and María Antonia Gómez. Priest from the seminary of Asturias, he interested early in classical languages,…
BARDELLI, Giuseppe. Brancialino, Pieve S. Stefano, Arezzo 10.4.1815 — Florence 2.10.1865. Abbate. Italian Indologist and Orientalist (Sinologist and Coptic Scholar). Professor at Pisa, one of the first pioneers of Indian studies in Italy. Tuscan, son of Michelangelo Bardelli and Maria Gabrieli. Began his career as a priest after the seminary…
BARBORKA, Geoffrey Avery. Chicago 6.9.1897 — 30.9.1982. U.S. Theosophist. Son of Vaclav Barborka (d. 1946), a Theosophist, musician and freemason with Czechoslovakian origin, and Bozena Peshek, from 1900 grew up in Theosophical headquarters in Point Loma, California. High School and College there, graduated 1920, then studies at the local Theosophical…
BARATTI, Giuseppina. 18?? — 19??. Italian, student of Kerbaker at Naples. One G. Baratti was born in Naples 1887 and was in the 1920s school professor of Latin and Italian in Santa Maria Capua Vetere in Campania. Publications: Translated: “L’episodio di Sanatsujâta esposto”, Mem. Accad. Napoli 2, 1911 (1913), 257-354.…
BARANNIKOV, Aleksej Petrovič. Zolotonoša, Poltavskaja obl. 25.2. (9.3.)1890 — Leningrad (St.Petersburg) 4.9.1952. Russian (Ukrainian) Indologist. Son of a carpenter, graduated 1914 from Kiev (Kyiv) University (learned Sanskrit from Knauer). In 1916-17 taught at Pedagocical Academy, 1919-20 at Pedagocical Institute in Samara, 1920 at Saratov University. In 1921-36 Teacher at St.Petersburg/Leningrad…
BARADIJN, Badzar Baradinevič. v Mogojtuj Aginsk. ajmaka 16.6.(28.6.)1878 — 24.8.1937. Russian (Buriat) Buddhist, Tibetan and Mongolian scholar. Born in a herder family. Graduated 1905 at St.Petersburg. In 1905-07 further studies in Tibet. In 1908-17 taught at Oriental Faculty, St.Petersburg, then 1917-23 at intermediate school in Ulan-Ude. In 1923-35 chairman of…
BANNERTH, Ernst. Eilenburg, Sachsen 13.10.1895 — Cairo 29.4.1976. German Urdu and Islamic Scholar and Catholic priest in Austria. Austrian citizen. Educated in Leipzig, 1913 became professional officer and 1916 sent to Near East. British war prisoner 1917-20 in India, then joined Benedictines and studied theology at Vienna. Ordained priest 1930.…
BANG KAUP, Willy (Willi, Johann Wilhelm Max Julius Bang Kaup). Wesel 8/9.8.1869 — Darmstadt 8.10.1934. German Linguist, Turkic and Iranian Scholar. Professor at Louvain and Berlin. Born in Germany, in Wesel by the Rhine near to the Belgian border, son of notary (later mayor) Heinrich Bang (1838–1896) and Auguste Karolina…
BAL’MONT, Konstantin Dmitrievič. Gumnišči, Vladimir gub. 15(3).6.1867 — Noisy-le-Grand near Paris 24.12.1942 (not 1943). Russian Symbolist Poet, Critic, Essayist, Novelist, and Playwright, interested in Theosophy and a Translator of Indian Classics. One of the most important members of the symbolic school in Russian literature. Son of Dmitrij Konstantinovič Bal’mont (1835–1907),…
BALLY, Charles-Louis. Geneva 4.2.1865 — Geneva 10.4.1947. Swiss Linguist and Greek scholar. Son of a teacher, Jean Gabriel Bally (1828–1870), and Elisa Henriette Louise Ruffini, lost early his father. From 1883 studied mainly Greek philology at Geneva, in the 1890s became de Saussure’s student, now also learned Sanskrit. Further studies…