CLEMENS, ?

CLEMENS, ?. 18?? — 191?. German Iranian Scholar specializing in Avesta. Died young in the WW I. Publications: Perhaps nothing. Sources: ZDMG?

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CHRISTENSEN, Arthur

CHRISTENSEN, Arthur Emanuel. Copenhagen 9.1.1875 — Copenhagen 31.3.1945. Danish Iranian Scholar. Professor in Copenhagen. Son of post official Vilhelm Chr. and Dorothea Kjerstine Marcussen. Matriculated in Copenhagen 1893. Studied languages, mainly French, at Copenhagen, mag. 1900. He had early become interested in the East and studied also Oriental languages: Arabic…

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CHARPENTIER, Jarl

CHARPENTIER, Jarl Hellen Robert Toussaint. Nya Varvet near Gothenburg 17.12.1884 — Uppsala 5.7.1935. Swedish Indologist. Professor in Uppsala. Son of Claës Robert Adolf Charpentier, a major, of a Huguenot family which had emigrated to Sweden in the 17th century, and Helena Elisabeth Augusta Geijer. Educated in Gothenburg. From 1902 studies…

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CASARTELLI, Louis Charles

CASARTELLI, Louis Charles. Manchester 14.11.1852 — Salford near Manchester 18.1.1925. Right Rev. British (of Italian origin) Iranian Scholar and Catholic Bishop. Son of an Italian exile from Como, North Italy, Joseph Louis Casartelli, working as optician in Manchester, and Jane Henrietta Ronchetti, educated at Salford Catholic Grammar School. Studies at…

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CARNOY, Albert Joseph

CARNOY, Albert Joseph. Louvain (Leuven) 7.11.1878 — Louvain 12.1.1961. Belgian Linguist. Professor in Louvain. Son of Joseph Antoine Carnoy, Professor of Philosophy at Louvain. Studied at Louvain Romance and classical philology, wrote dr. dissertations in both (in 1901 and 1902). From 1902 Docent, from 1904 eo. Professor and from 1908…

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CANNIZZARO, Francesco Adolfo

CANNIZZARO, Francesco Adolfo. Messina 13.7.1867 — Rome 24.4.1914. Italian Lawyer and autodidact Iranian Scholar. From 1887 studied law in Rome, also attended De Gubernatis’ Sanskrit classes until 1893. Degree in law 1894 University of Catania. Active in politics as a socialist, but also actively studied the Vīdēvdāt. In 1908 visited…

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CAMERON, George Glenn

CAMERON, George Glenn. Washington, PA 30.7.1905 — Ann Arbor 14.9.1979. U.S. Archaeologist and Historian of ancient Iran. Professor in Ann Arbor. Son of William Byers Cameron and Elizabeth Smith. Educated in 1923-25 at Washington and Jefferson College, 1925-27 at Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio (A.B. 1927), then studies at University…

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CALAND, Willem

CALAND, Willem. Brielle (Den Briel), Zuid Holland 27.8.1859 — Utrecht 23.3. 1932. Dutch Indologist. Professor in Utrecht. Son of the water engineer Pieter Caland (1826–1902) and Helena Carolina de Jonge (1828–1893). Educated in the Hague. Studied from 1877 classical philology under Cobet at Leiden, became interested in Kern’s lectures. In…

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BURNOUF, Eugène

BURNOUF, Eugène. Paris 8.4. (or 12.8.?) 1801 — Paris 28.5.1852. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. Son of —> Jean-Louis Burnouf (1775–1844) and Marie Genoviève Chavarin, cousin of —> Émile-Louis Burnouf (1821–1907). Studied classical languages under his father and from 1822 at École de Chartes (licencié ès lettres et en droit…

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BURG, Fritz

BURG, Jacob Fritz. Berlin 27.3.1860 — 16.11.1928. German (Jew) Philologist (Germanist and Runologist). Ph.D. 1885 Berlin. Worked in Hamburg Stadtbibliothek: 1892 Hilfsarbeiter, 1894 Sekretär, 1907 Bibliothekar, retired 1926. Married 1886 Ida Seligmann, children. Publications: Diss. Die älteren nordischen Runeninschriften. 176 p. Berlin 1885; other writing unrelated with Asia. – “Avestisch hisi∂iḭāþ”,…

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