BAUMGARTEN, Michael. Haseldorf, Holstein 25.3.1812 — Rostock 21.7.1889. German Lutheran Theologian. Son of a wealthy farmer, Hinrich Baumgarten (1774–1853), and Anna Catharina Hauschild (1790–1832). After school in Altona studies of theology at Kiel and Berlin (probably also Sanskrit under Bopp). Dr.theol. & PD 1839 Kiel. From 1846 Pastor in Schleswig.…
BAUDIŠ, Josef. Prague 27.8.1883 — Bratislava 4.5.1933. Czech IE and Celtic Linguist and Folklorist. Gymnasium and studies (1902-06) in Prague, also studied at Heidelberg. Ph.D. 1906 (under Zubatý). Soon PD at Prague, also taught at a gymnasium there. After WW I lived some time in the U.K. studying Celtology. From 1924…
BATSCH, Friedrich. Brandenburg 182? — 1907. Rev. German Lutheran Missionary in India. A Sorbian. Ordained 1844 in Berlin and left for India with three others. They intended to go to the Karens in Burma, but in Calcutta learned that American Baptists were already working there and turned to India. In…
BATAILLARD, Paul Théodore. Paris 23.3.1816 — Paris 1.3.1894. French Archivist and Gypsy Scholar. Son of Pierre Charles Bataillard (d. 1840) and Agathe Pierrette Vasse, a royalist Catholic family (but the son developed into a liberal and democrat). School in Troyes, studied first law in Paris, soon religion, philosophy and politics…
BARTH, Marie-Étienne-Auguste. Schiltigheim near Strasbourg 22.3.1834 — Paris 15.4.1916. French Indologist. Born in Strasbourg as the son of catholic father, commis-négociant Étienne Barth (1807–1880), and protestant mother, Marie-Wilhelmine Stoeber. Educated in Strasbourg, 1856 licensié ès lettres. Taught logic and rhetorics at Bouxviller Collège near Savern from 1857, privately studied Sanskrit,…
BARRIGUE DE FONTAINIEU, Gérard Hilaire Prosper Emmanuel Hippolyte, Baron, 1895 Marquis de Fontainieu. Marmande (Lot et Garonne) 26.7.1863 — Paris 15.4.1927. French Indologist, specialist of Tamil and Hindustani. Son of Prosper Barrigue de Fontainieu (1829–1887) and Françoise Delage (1837–1863), member of a family coming from Marseille and belonging to nobility from the…
BARBOUR, Philip Lemont. Louisville, Kentucky 21.12.1898 — Petersburg, Virginia 21.12.1980. U.S. Linguist, Historian and Radio Broadcaster. Son of Philip Foster Barbour (1867–1944), a physician, and Jessie A. Lemont (1872–1947). In 1910 moved with his divorced mother ans sisters to New York. Studies of history and languages at Columbia and Cornell…
BANESS, Joshua Frederick. Delhi 30.1.1830 — Simla 7.6.1884. British Civil Servant in India. Born in India, son of Athanes Baness (1802–1845) ja Harriet Lumley (1808–1880), the surname Baness is Scottish. Surveyor and Chief Draftsman in Geographical and Drawing Branch of the Survey of India (1881).Married 1856 Marie Knight (b. 1832)…
AYTON, James Alexander. Calcutta 28.7.1791 — near Budge Budge (now in Kolkata Metropolitan area) 10.8.1832, when 41. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of James Ayton and Margaret Burges, of Scottish origin. Lieutenant, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Persian at College of Fort William in Calcutta (1820), later Brevet Captain.…
ASTI VERA, Armando. Buenos Aires 25.6.1914 — Buenos Aires 3.2.1972. Argentinian scholar of Religion. Ph.D. 1939 Buenos Aires, in philosophy, then taught at several Argentinian universities. Founder (in the late 1960s) and director of the Centro de Estudios de Religiones y Filosofías del Oriente in the Departemento de Filosofía y…