BORKOWSKI, Aleksander (Leszek) Ferdynand Wincenty Dunin (Dunin B., Al.). Gródek, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Horodok in Ukraine) 11.1.1811 — Lemberg (Lwów, now L’viv) 30.11.1896. Count. Polish Politician, Poet and Author, who translated Bhartṛhari’s poems into Polish. Son of Franciszek Antoni Dunin Borkowski (1773–1860) and Franciszka Anna Dzieduszycka, brother of poet Jozef Dunin…
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. Son of forester Ferdinand Bork and Ottilie Zimmermann. Gymnasium in Marienburg (West Prussia), matriculated 1892. Studies of geography and languages at Königsberg, until…
BORGSTRØM, Carl Hjalmar. Kristiania (Oslo) 12.10.1909 — Oslo 14.9.1986. Norwegian Celtic and IE Linguist. Professor in Oslo. Son of Hjalmar Borgstrøm (1864–1925), a composer, and Harriet Amalie 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…
BORECKÝ, Miloš. Prague 28.12.1903 — Washington, DC, U.S.A. 18.3.1954. Czech Oriental (Iranian) Scholar in the U.S.A. Son of —> Jaromír Borecký (1869–1951) and Františka Schöpffová. In 1922-30 studies of Indo-Iranian at Charles University of Prague under Lesný and Rypka, further studies at Sorbonne and Oxford. Ph.D. 1930 Prague. Worked as…
BORECKÝ, Jaromír. Buddies (now České Budějovice) 6.8.1869 — Prague 8.5.1951. Czech Poet, Translator and Librarian, listed as an Oriental scholar by Heyne and apparently knew some Sanskrit and certainly Persian. Son of Jan Ludvik Borecký (1827–1912) and Anna Isáková. He is said (by Bečka) to have been a student of…
BORÉ, Eugène. Angers (Maine-et-Loire) 15.8.1809 — Paris 3.5.1878. French Orientalist, especially Armenian Scholar. Son of a lawyer who died in 1812, in 1828 also lost his mother. Educated in Angers and Paris (Collège Stanislas), then studied languages: Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Persian, Hebrew, Syriac and in 1833 Sanskrit. In 1833-34 Professor…
BOPP, Franz. Mainz 14.9.1791 — Berlin 23.10.1867. German Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Berlin. Born in a Roman Catholic family, son of a civil servant, Andreas Bopp (1765?–1840), and Regina Linck (d. 1820). Grew up in Aschaffenburg, where he had K. Windischmann as his teacher at the local Gymnasium, then…
BONARDI, Mario. Rome 29.5.1914 — 14.6.1954. Italian Indologist (Buddhist scholar). Studied in Rome and graduated as a teacher of Greek and Latin, at the same time studied Sanskrit and Tibetan under Formichi and Tucci. Specially interested in Tantric Buddhism. In 19?? Ph.D. with an unpublished dissertation on the Hevajrapradīpa. Worked…
BOMPAS, Cecil Henry. London 31.5.1868 — Broughton, Hampshire 22.1.1956. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry Mason Bompas (barrister and judge, 1836–1909) and Rachel Henrietta Wise (d. 1923). Educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge. Joined I.C.S. in 1887, arrived in India 1889. Served as Assistant Magistrate and Collector…
BOLTZ, August Constantin. Breslau 26.9.1819 — Jugenheim bei Darmstadt 1.5.1907. German Literate, Language Teacher and Translator interested in Sanskrit. Gymnasium in Breslau, then worked in trade and studied languages. As tutor of an aristocrat St.Petersburg family travelled around Europe (1839-42), then teacher in St.Petersburg. Ph.D. 1845 Jena. In 1852-64 taught…