PETTAZZONI, Raffaele. San Giovanni in Persiceto, near Bologna 3.2.1883 — Rome 8.12.1959. Italian Anthropologist, Archaeologist and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Professor in Rome. Son of Cesare Pettazzoni and Maria Luigia Minezzi. Studies of archaeology, etc. at Bologna and Rome. Ph.D. 1905 Bologna. From 1909 worked at Sardinian Department of Antiquities…
PETRUNIČEVA, Zorja Nikolaevna. Moscow 26.7.1926 — 27.5.1995. Russian Indologist (Historian and Telugu Scholar). Daughter of an official, Nikolaj Alekseevič Petruničev (1899–1942). Graduated 1948 at Moscow University, in history. Kand. istoričeskih nauk 1955. From 1953 naučnyj sotrudnik at Oriental Institute of Academy of Science in Moscow. Married Osip Jakovlevič Hotinski (1919–2016),…
PETROVSKIJ, Nikolaj Fëdorovič. 30.11.(12.12.)1837 — Taškent 19.11.(2.12.)1908. Russian Diplomat and Central Asian Scholar. After an early military career he joined in 1861 Finance Department and in 1870 Foreign Department. He was Russian Consul in Kashgar in 1882-1904 (from 1895 General Consul) and an eager antiquarian, who donated his big collection…
PETERSSON, John Kristian Herbert. Ålem near Kalmar 25.5.1881 — Lund 12.5.1927. Swedish IE Scholar. Professor in Lund. Son of Rev. Olof Petersson, a minister, and Selma Christina Melén. Matriculated from Kalmar in 1899 and started studies at Lund (under Flensburg). Further studies in 1904 at Rostock, 1908 at Münster and…
PETERSON, Mihail Nikolaevič. Kerensk (now Vadinsk, Penzenskoj obl.) 22.9.(4.10.)1885 — Moscow 22.11.1962. Russian IE Linguist. Professor in Moscow. Son of Nikolaj Pavlovič Peterson (1844–1919), a teacher, educated in Ašhabad and Vernyj (Alma Ata). Studies at Moscow under Fortunatov, Trubetskoj, et al., graduated 1913. From 1916 Docent and from 1919 (or…
PETERSEN, Walter. 1881 — Chicago 3.10.1939 (when 58). U.S. IE and Classical Scholar. Professor in Gainesville and Chicago. Son of German immigrants, studies in Germany. A.M. Ph.D. Yale. In 1908/18 Professor of Greek and Latin at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. From 19?? Assistant Professor of Ancient Languages (teaching Latin…
PETER, His Royal Highness, Prince of Greece and Denmark (Πέτροϛ). Paris 3.12.1908 — London 15.10.1980. Greek Anthropologist. Son of Georg, Admiral of Greece and Denmark (1869–1957) and Marie Bonaparte (1882–1962), younger brother of King Constantin I of Greece. Himself Royal Admiral of Greece. Grew up in France (he never lived…
PERTOLD, Otakar. Jaroměř, Hradec Králové 21.3.1884 — Prague 3.5.1965. Czechoslovakian Indologist and Anthropologist. Professor in Prague. Born in Northern Bohemia as the son of Jan Pertold, a chemist and owner of a sugar factory. Educated in Slany 1894-1902, then studies of classical philology, philosophy, Oriental languages (under Zubatý et al.)…
PERSSON, Per. Västra Vingåker, Södermanland 31.12.1857 — Uppsala 27.6.1929. Swedish Classical and IE Linguist. Professor in Uppsala. Son of farmer Per Persson and Brita Persdotter. School in Örebro. From 1875 studied at Uppsala, M.A. 1878, Lic.phil. 1883. Ph.D. and Docent of Classics 1886. From 1895 Professor of Latin Language and…
PENZER, Norman Mosley. Mawdesley, Chorley, Lancashire 30.9.1892 — Uckfield, Sussex 27.11.1960. British Folklorist and Scholar of Asia. Son of Rev. Seymour Penzer (1857–1918) and Grace Caroline Wood. Studies at Cambridge (M.A.). Private scholar with no official position. Also known as a specialist of Richard Burton. Married Kathleen Willoughby Baldrey and…