BOXWELL, John. Butlerstown, co. Wexford 31.5.1838 — Dacca 15.5.1891. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Francis B. and Martha Carey. Educated in Armagh, studies at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1888 in Bengal Civil Service, some time Collector of Gaya. In the 1870s Deputy Commissioner in Santal Parganas, finally…
BOXBERGER, Robert. Gotha 28.5.1836 — Stadtsulza near Weimar 30.3.1890. German Literate interested in Sanskrit. Son of a fireplace-maker, gymnasium in Erfurt, then studied 1855-58 philology at Jena (i.al. under Schleicher). In 1858-76 and 1878-85 teacher at the Erfurt Realschule (Gymnasium) and 1868-76 librarian of ther royal library there, 1876-78 in…
BOWRING, Lewin Bentham. Hackney, London 15.7.1824 — Torquay, Devon 14.1.1910. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Sir John B. (1792–1872), linguist, traveller, politician, diplomat, governor of Hong Kong, even poet, and Maria Lewin. Educated in Exeter, at Haileybury and Fort Williams (Calcutta). Bengal Civil service 1843-70. From 1847 Assistant…
BOWER, Henry. Madras 1812 — Palayankottah 1885. Rev. Anglo-Indian Missionary in South India. D.D. Son of Francis Bower (François Bouverie, d. 1824) and his wife Justinia. After Vepery Seminary worked as Catechist of Wesleyan Missionary Society, from 1838 Assistant Missionary in the Madras mission. Ordained priest 1845 and deacon 1848.…
BOURQUIN, Auguste Ali. Sonvilier, canton Bern 8.4.1848 — Denver 14.1.1928. Swiss Protestant Priest and Indologist. Son of Louis Alcide Bourquin and Zelie Chopard. In 1882 he was member of Scottish Mission at General Assembly Institution in Bombay, but returned soon after that to Europe after having spent eleven years as…
BOUDA, Karl Ernst. Hamburg 10.2.1901 — Erlangen or Nürnberg (?) 31.7.1979. German Linguist and Caucasologist. Son of Karl Enoch Bouda and Karolina Völcker. PD 1936 Berlin. From 1942 pl. ao. (ord. 1950) Professor at Erlangen, until 1954. Later living in Nürnberg. Bouda was a many-sided linguist, who worked on Caucasian,…
BOSCH, Frederik David Kan. Potchefstroom, Transvaal 17.6.1887 — Leiden 20.7.1968. Dutch Indologist and Indonesian Scholar. Professor in Leiden. Born in South Africa, son of Hendrik B. and Judith Kan (d. 1889), after his mother’s death came to live with his two aunts in Amsterdam and went to school there. He…
BORTOLAZZI, Bortolo Maria. Bassano (Veneto) 1807 — 8.1.1879. Italian interested in Sanskrit. Of a Venetian noble family living in Bassano. No biography is available, but he died in his native district. Pagine Friuliane calls him professor and “noto orientalista”. Only one Indological work by him is known. Programma del comunale ginnasio…
BORK, Ferdinand A. Forsthaus bei Königsbruch, Kr. Tuchel, Westpreussen (now in Poland) 26.11.1871 — Benhausen, Paderborn 28.2.1962. German Scholar of Ancient Near East, also interested in Indo-Iranian. Parents forester Ferdinand Bork and Ottilie Zimmermann. Gymnasium in Marienburg (West Prussia), matriculated 1892. Studies of geography and languages at Königsberg, until 1896.…
BORGSTRØM, Carl Hjalmar. Kristiania (Oslo) 12.10.1909 — Oslo 14.9.1986. Norwegian Celtic and IE Linguist. Professor in Oslo. Son of Hjalmar B., a composer, and Harriet Müller. From 1928 studies of Celtic and comparative IE at Oslo. M.A. 1936 Oslo. In 1932-35 Lecturer in Comparative Philology at Trinity College in Dublin.…