BOGOSLOVSKIJ, Vasilij Alekseevič. Moscow 20.1.1932 — 25.4.1986. Russian Tibetologist. Son of a public servant. Studies at the History Faculty of Moscow University, graduated 1954. Kand. istoričeskih nauk 1961. Naučnyj sotrudnik at the Oriental Institute 1957-67, from 1968 at the Institut Dal’nego Vostoka in Moscow. Publications: At least 30 items, i.a.:…
BOGORODICKIJ, Vasilij Alekseevič. Carevokokšajsk (now Joškar-Ola in Mari Republic) 7(19).4.1857 — Kazan 23.12.1941. Russian IE and Slavic Linguist. Professor in Kazan. Son of a priest. School at Carevokokšajsk and Kazan. Studies at Kazan under Baudouin de Courtenay et al. Kand. 1880. PD 1881 Kazan, for comparative linguistics. Mag. 1884, now…
BOGDAN-DUICĂ, Gheorghe (born Gh. Bogdan). Brassó/Kronstadt, Hungary (now Braşov in Romania)) 2.1.1866 — Braşov 21.9.1931. Romanian Literate interested in Indian Literature. Son of a poor merchant, Ioan Bogdan (1832–1906) and Elena Munteanu. After school in Braşov from 1885 studies at Budapest, Jena and Vienna (but degree only at Bucharest 1897).…
BÖHTLINGK, Otto Nikolaus von (Russian Otto Nikolaevič Betlingk). St.Petersburg 11.6.(30.5.)1815 — Leipzig 1.4.1904. Russian (German) Indologist. Born in St.Petersburg as a Dutch citizen in a family (father Nikolaus Dietrich Böhtlingk, 1773–1839, a merchant), which originally came from Lübeck, his mother, Maria Wilhelmina Strahlboin (died soon after his birth), was a…
BÖHM, Annie Karoline. Mährisch Ostrau (Moravská Ostrava in Czechia) 17.8.1893 — Haifa, Israel 11.9.1985. Austrian (Moravian Hew) Student of IE Linguistics. Daughter of Dr. Max Böhm (1857–1952) and Adele Wolf. Ph.D. 1921 Vienna. Then editor of the Neue Weinzeitung. Moved to Israel and worked 15 years as secretary to Ata…
BODE, Mabel Kate Haynes (née Haynes). 28.10.1864 — Shaftesbury, Dorset 20.1.1922. British Indologist (Pāli scholar). Daughter of Robert William Haynes (1828–1879), a lawyer and law publisher, and his wife Emily (1833–1870). After parents’ death lived with an aunt, Janet Mary Haynes. Educated at Notting Hill High School for Girls in…
BODDING, Paul Olaf. Gjøvik, Oppland 2.11.1865 — Odense, Denmark 25.9.1938. Rev. Norwegian Missionary and Munda Scholar in India, lived long time among the Santals. Son of a bookseller, Edvard Olsen Bodding (1825–1905), and Betzy Emilie Wennevold (1838–1889). After meeting —> L. O. Skrefsrud in his father’s shop he decided to…
BOBRINSKOY, George Vladimir (Russian Grigorij/Georgij Vladimirovič Bobrinskoj). Tula, Russia 23.1.1901 — Greenfield, Franklin, Mass. 15/17.11.1985. U.S. (Russian born) Indologist. Professor in Chicago. Born in Russia as the son of Count Vladimir Alekseevič Bobrinskoj (1868–1927) and Maria Matveevna Nikonova (1882–1956). In the Russian civil war fought in the army of Denikin,…
BOAKE, William John Slade. Colombo 1844 — London 2.6.1889. British (Irish) Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Dr. Barcroft Boake of Dublin (1814–1876), Principal of Colombo Academy in 1842-70, and Mary Katherine Slade (d. 1860). Obtained Lic. Med. of Trinity College, Dublin, and Diploma of Medicine and Surgery,…
BLUMHARDT, James Fuller. Bengal 1844? — Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire 10.12.1922. British Indologist (NIA Scholar). M.A. First in I.C.S. in Bengal, then served long time in British Museum in the Dept. of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books. Also Lecturer in Bengali at Cambridge in 1883-88 (1883-84 also in Marathi), then at…