BRIGEL, Johann Jakob. Erpfingen, Württemberg 4.12.1832 — Engstlatt 4.12.1887. Rev. German Missionary in India, belonged to Basel Mission in Mangalore. Spent 16 years in India. Retired in 1875 and became minister in his native Württemberg. Married, children. Publications: A Grammar of the Tulu language. 139 p. Mangalore 1872; mission publications.…
BRIESS, Erwin Eduard. Olmütz (Olomouc), Moravia 9.5.1886 — 1946. Austrian Journalist and former Student of Indology in Switzerland. Swiss citizen. Grew up in Zürich, where family moved when he was rwo years old. Studies of Oriental Philology at Vienna, Ph.D. 1912. Returned to Zürich in 1913 and was working for…
BREWSTER, Earl Henry. Chagris Falls, Ohio 21.9.1878 — Almora 19.9.1957. U.S. Artist (Painter) and Author. Educated in Cleveland and N.Y. Schools of Art. Worked as painter in New York, had exhibitions. In 1910 married Achsah Barlow (an artist, 1879–1945, one daughter), now began long time of nomadic life mostly in…
BRELOER, Bernhard. Herne, Westfalen 8.11.1894 — Tbilisi 20.4.1947. German Indologist. Professor in Berlin. Son of mill owner Bernhard Breloer and Auguste Lueg. Participated in the WW I. Studied a brief time at Jena, then at Bonn (under Jacobi and Kirfel) and Munich (W. Geiger) Indology, also classical philology, and musicology.…
BRAY, Denys de Saumarez. Aberdeen 29.11.1875 — Winchester 19.11.1951. Sir. British Civil Servant in India, a Scholar of Baluchistan and its Languages (Brahui). Son of Rev. Thomas William Bray (1840–1887) and Rachel Le Mesurier. Educated at the Realgymnasium in Stuttgart and Blundell’s School in Tiverton (Devon), then studies at Balliol…
BRASSAI, Sámuel. Torockó (now Rimetea in Romania) or Torockószentgyörgy (Colțești) 15.6.1797 or 13.2.1800 — Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca in Romania) 27.6.1897. Hungarian Philosopher and Polyhistor, who translated a specimen of the Hitopadeśa in 1884. Born in a Transylvanian Saxon family, son of the elder Samuel Br., a priest and teacher, and…
BRANDES, Carl Edvard Cohen. Copenhagen 21.10.1847 — Copenhagen 20.12.1931. Danish Journalist and Politician, started his career as an Indologist. Son of a Herman Brandes (1816-1904), a wholesale dealer, and Emilie Bendix (1818-98), brother of author and critic Georg Brandes (1842-1927). School at Copenhagen, matriculated 1865. Studied at Copenhagen University many…
BRANDENSTEIN, Wilhelm. Salzburg 23.10.1898 — Graz 1.12.1967. Austrian Indo-Iranian and Indoeuropean Scholar. Professor in Graz. Son of an official, educated in Salzburg. In 1915 as a voluntary to the army, 1918 disbanded as lieutenant. From 1918 studied at Innsbruck classical philology (under Kalinka & Jüthner), IE (Walde, Reichelt), philosophy (F.…
BRADKE, Peter von. St.Petersburg 27.6.1853 — Giessen 7.3.1897. German (Livonian) Indologist. Son of Georg Friedrich von Bradke (1796–1862), wirkl. Geheimrat and senator in St. Petersburg, of a German family of Livonian nobility, and Luise Lucie von Saß (1827–1861). After school in Dorpat (Tartu) studies of classical, German and comparative philology…
BOYER, Augustin-M. Vannes (Morbihar, Brittany) 20.11.1850 — 2.1.1938. Abbé, S.J. French Indologist and Epigraphist, a Catholic Priest. Educated at the Collège diocésain de Nantes, at the age of 20 a Jesuit novice, first in Angers, then in Saint-Acheul. In addition to philosophy and theology studied mathematics with success. In 1884…