ČAVČAVADZE, Tinatin Aleksandrovna (née Cagareišvili). Tbilisi 29.4.1928 — 1997. Georgian Indo-Iranian scholar. Daughter of an official, graduated 1949 from Oriental Faculty of Tbilisi University. Kand. filol. nauk 1954, dr. filol. nauk 1987. In 1956-58 taught at Tbilisi University, 1957-60 naučnyj sotrudnik at Linguistic Institute (Institut Jazykoznanija) and from 1960 at…
CARDONA, Giorgio Raimondo. Rome 7.1.1943 — Rome 14.8.1988. Italian Linguist. Professor in Rome. Son of Giacinto Cardona. Studied at La Sapienza in Rome. From 1968 Assistant and 1980-88 ord. Professor of Linguistics at La Sapienza. A specialist of sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics. Married Miss Fiore, one son. Publications: “Per una etimologia di Toc.…
BURTON-PAGE, John Garrard. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex 19.9.1921 — Church Knowle, Dorset 13.6.2005. British Indologist (Sanskrit and Hindi Scholar and Historian). Music studies (horn) at Royal College of Music were interrupted after one term through war service in India and Burma, learned now Hindi and Nepali and after war studied from 1946 Sanskrit…
BUCCA, Salvador (Salvatore Bucca). Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto near Messina in Sicily 30.10.1920 — Buenos Aires 30.12.2005. Argentinian (Italian-born) Linguist interested in the Upanishads. Born in Sicily, studied at Pisa (graduated in classics 1944), then collaborator in the Lexicon Etruscum in Florence, moved to Argentina in 1948. Taught classics and Sanskrit…
BRUNNER-LACHAUX, Hélène (née H. Lachaux). L’Hérault 20.5.1920 — Lausanne 27.3.2005. French Indologist. Studied first mathematics and physics, CAPES 1942, and taught them at school in 1942-62, first in France, then 1951-53 Berchtesgaden, 1953-55 Addis Abeba and 1955-62 at Pondichéry French lycée. Now became interested in Śaivism and joined Filliozat’s Śaivasiddhānta team. Also…
BERGER, Hermann. Bad Kötzting, Bayerischer Wald 17.10.1926 — Heidelberg 31.1.2005. German Indologist. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of Peter Berger (1896–1976) and Angelika Rössler (1898–1991). After school military service ending as war prisoner. Released, studies of Indology, IE linguistics and Semitic at Munich 1948-53, 1953 Ph.D. there. His main teacher was…
BEČKA, Jiří. Prague 16.10.1915 — Prague 21.12.2004. Czech Iranian Scholar. Gymnasium in Prague. From 1936 studied law and Oriental languages (J. Rypka et al.) at Prague, then much belated because of WW II. Dr. juris 1945. Ph.D. 1954. In 1952-76 librarian and research scholar at Institute of Oriental Studies, Czechoslovak…
BECHERT, Heinz. Munich 26.6.1932 — Göttingen 14.6.2005. German Indologist, a Famous Specialist of Buddhist Studies. Professor in Göttingen. Son of Rudolf Bechert (1900–1961), a lawyer, and Herta Bade. After gymnasium in Rosenheim (near Salzburg in Austria) from 1950 studies at Munich, beginning with classical philology and history, soon linguistics under…
BALIN, Viktor Iosifovič. Bolšoe Muraškino 20.10.1925 — 1991. Russian Indologist (Hindi). Son of a worker. 1943-45 in Red Army. Graduated 1951 Leningrad. Kand. filologičeskih nauk 1956. Docent 1961. From 1952 taught at Oriental Faculty (1972 kafedr. ind. filologii), Leningrad. Publications: Kand.diss. Prem Čand – novellist. Manuscript of 426 p. Lg. 1956.…
BAILEY, David Roy Shackleton. Lancaster 10.12.1917 — Ann Arbor 28.11.2005. British Classical Scholar and Tibetologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Ann Arbor and Cambridge, Mass. Son of John Henry Shackleton Bailey, a schoolteacher and mathematician, and Rosamund Maud Giles, educated in Lancaster. During the war served in the code-breaking unit.…