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.…
BARSTOW, Arthur Edward (“Bustling Bill”). Edinburgh 17.3.1888 — near Layang Layang, Malaya 28.1.1942. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Major-General (1941). Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Adam Anderson B. and Jane Cape. Educated at Bradfield College and Sandhurst. From 1909 served in the Punjab with the 15th Ludhiana Sikhs (during WW…
BARRETT, LeRoy Carr. Cape Girardeau, Missouri 11.3.1877 — Hartford, Conn. 16.7.1960. U.S. Classical Scholar and Indologist. Son of Thomas Carr Barrett (1841–1916) and Sophia Baptista Muschany. Studies at Washington and Lee (A.B. 1897) and Johns Hopkins (A.M. 1898, Ph.D. 1903), Bloomfield’s student. In 1903-07 Instructor of Latin at Johns Hopkins,…
BARRETO, Júlio Francisco António Adeodato. Margão, Goa 3.12.1905 — Coimbra 6.8.1937. Portuguese (Luso-Goan) Poet, Writer and Journalist. Son of Vicente Mariano Barreto, educated in Nova Goa (Panjim). At the age of 17 came to Portugal, where he remained after studies of law, history and philosophy at Coimbra (graduated in both,…
BARR, Kaj. Copenhagen 26.6.1896 — Copenhagen 4.1.1970. Danish Iranian Scholar. Professor in Copenhagen. Adopted son of Friederich Eduard Barr (d. 1912), a mechanic, and Karen Frederikke Frederiksen (d. 1917). Matriculated from Copenhagen 1917. Began studies at Technical High School, but soon turned to classical, Arabic and Iranian philology (under Christensen)…
BARNETT, Lionel David. Liverpool 21.10.1871 — London 28.1.1960. British Indologist. Son of Jewish banker Barron Lewis Barnett and Adelaide Cowen. Educated at University College in Liverpool and from 1892 at Trinity College, Cambridge, studying classical languages: B.A. 1896. After two years at Halle and Berlin back to Cambridge:, M.A. 1899…
BARIĆ, Henrik. Dubrovnik 28.1.1888 — Belgrade 3.4.1959. Yugoslavian (Croatian) Linguist. Born of a poor clerical family. Studies at Graz (i.al. Meringer) and Vienna. Ph.D. 1912 Vienna. From 1920 PD, then Professor of Comparative Grammar of IE Languages at Royal Yugoslavian University in Belgrade in the 1930s and till 1954, when…
BAREAU, André. Saint Mandé (Seine) 31.12.1921 — Paris 2.3.1993. French Buddhologist. Professor in Paris. Son of an accountant. After undergraduate studies at École normale supérieure. worked as schoolteacher and now also began studies under Filliozat and Demiéville. Licence de philosophie 1946, diplom of É.P.H.É. Dr. ès lettres 1951. Worked in…
BARBORKA, Geoffrey Avery. Chicago 6.9.1897 — 30.9.1982. U.S. Theosophist. Son of Vaclav Barborka, a Theosophist with Czechoslovakian origin, and Bozena Peshek, grew up in Theosophical headquarters in Point Loma, California. High School and College there, graduated 1920, then studies at the local Theosophical University (B.A. 1929, M.A. 1935) beside working…
BARATTI, Giuseppina. 18?? — 19??. Italian, student of Kerbaker at Naples. One G.B. was born in Naples 1887 and was in the 1920s school professor of Latin and Italian in Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Publications: Translated: “L’episodio di Sanatsujâta esposto”, Mem. Accad. Napoli 2, 1911 (1913), 257-354. Sources: A. Perconte…