BAUER, Hubert. 18?? — 19??. Austrian (?) Student of Iranian. Ph.D. 1920 Vienna. Publications: Diss. Das Kārnāmak i Artaxšīr i Pāpakān im Vergleiche mit neupersischen und arabischen Quellen. Manuscript, Vienna 1920. Sources: Not in Ö.B.L., remains untraced.
BARTHOLOMAE, Friedrich Christian Leonhard. Forsthaus in Forstleithen bei Limmersdorf, Landkreis Kulmbach 21.1.1855 — Langeoog, Ostfriesland 9.8.1925. German IE and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Münster, Giessen, and Heidelberg. Son of a forester (Oberforster) Leonhard B. (d. 1859) and Maria Friederike Aichinger. Gymnasium in Bayreuth. From 1872 studied IE, Indian and Iranian…
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.…
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)…
BAILEY, Harold Walter. Devizes, Wiltshire 16.12.1899 — 11.1.1996, Cambridge. Sir (1960). British Indo-Iranian Scholar, Famous Specialist of the Khotan Saka. Professor in Cambridge. Son of Frederic Charles Quinton Bailey (1869–1952) and Emma Jane Reichardt (1871–1962). Born in England, he moved with his parents in 1910 to start a farm in…
ANDREAS, Friedrich Carl. Batavia (Jakarta) 14.4.1846 — Göttingen 3.10.1930. German Iranian Scholar. Professor in Göttingen. Born in Dutch East India as the son of a military physician with Armenian background and German mother, he was sent to Hamburg for school in the age of seven. Matriculated from Geneva. Studies of…
ABRAMJAN (Abramian), Ruben Tadesovič. Gnišik, Turkish Armenia 9.(21.)2.1881 — 26.10.1951. Armenian Iranian and Armenian Scholar. Son of a civil servant. In 1911 graduated from Oriental Faculty in St. Petersburg. Dr. philol. nauk 1935. In 1935-46 he taught at Tehran University, in 1946-51 naučnyj sotrudnik at Linguistic Institute of Armenian Academy…