BLONAY, Godefroy Jean Henry Louis de, baron. Niederschoenthal, Füllingsdorf (Basel-Land) 25.7.1869 — Biskra, Algeria 14.2.1937. Swiss Indologist. Born in his father’s (baron Gustave Louis de Blonay) castle, Château de Grandson, in an old Vaudian family, whose ancestor had founded the castle of Blonay in Vaud in c. 1175, his mother…
BLOCH, Jules. Paris 1.5.1880 — Sèvres (Seine-et-Oise) 29.11.1953. French Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Paris. Son of a Jewish merchant, Salomon Bloch and Caroline Bernheimer, a modest unreligious family originating in Alsace. After Lycée Charlemagne, studied in Paris (Fac. des lettres, etc.) under Lévi and Meillet (also Gauthiot, Foucher and…
BENDALL, Cecil. London 1.7.1856 — Liverpool 14.3.1906. British Indologist, a Specialist of Buddhist Mahāyāna Literature in Sanskrit. Professor in Cambridge. Son of London tradesman Robert Smith Bendall (1812–1865) and Elizabeth Kay Holmes (1818–1897). Attended the City of London School, together with Stevenson (?) and Webster, learnt Sanskrit from Nicholl. In…
BAYNES, Herbert Morton Walker. Kensington, Middlesex / Bayswater, Westminster 2.2.1855 — Cumberland / Manly, both in NSW, Australia 1.9.1928. British Scholar of Indian Religions, a Theosophist. In peoplepill briefly called “British Civil Servant and Orientalist”, and werelate.org adds “Translator in the High Court in London. Was fluent in 22 languages”.…
BARTOLI, Emilio. 2.10.1861 — 19??. Italian Indologist and Translator of Sanskrit Literature. Student of Kerbaker at Naples. In the 1910s teacher (“professor”) of Latin and Greek at the R. Liceo Vittorio Emanuele in Naples, earlier perhaps in Bari. In 1923-25 and 1934-35 Docente di Grammatica comparata delle lingue classiche e…
BARTHOLOMAE, Friedrich Christian Leonhard. Forsthaus in Forstleithen bei Limmersdorf, Landkreis Kulmbach 21.1.1855 — Langeoog, Ostfriesland 9.8.1925. German IE and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Münster, Giessen, and Heidelberg. Son of a forester (Oberforster) Leonhard B. (d. 1859) and Maria Friederike Aichinger. Gymnasium in Bayreuth. From 1872 studied IE, Indian and Iranian…
BAREAU, André. Saint Mandé (Seine) 31.12.1921 — Paris 2.3.1993. French Buddhologist. Professor in Paris. Son of an accountant. After undergraduate studies at École normale supérieure. worked as schoolteacher and now also began studies under Filliozat and Demiéville. Licence de philosophie 1946, diplom of É.P.H.É. Dr. ès lettres 1951. Worked in…
ANDERSEN, Dines. Ullerslev, Fyn 26.12.1861 — Copenhagen 28.3.1940. Danish Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Son of mill builder Dines Andersen (1833–1861) and Christine Poulsen (1833–1914), lost his father before his birth. Supported by patrons, he attended the Latin School in Odense in 1877-81. Studied from 1881 at Copenhagen Classical and Scandinavian philology,…
ALSDORF, Ludwig Wilhelm. Laufersweiler near Kirchberg in Hunsrück 8.8.1904 — Buchholz-Sprötze, Kr. Harburg 25.3.1978. German Indologist. Professor in Hamburg. Son of a minister, Hermann Alsdorf and Emilie Chelius. In 1911 the family moved to Scheidt in Saarland. He went to school in Saarbrücken (Ludwigs-Gymnasium). Began his studies in 1922 at…
AGERSCHOU, Agnes Margrethe. Rudkøbing, Langeland 8.5.1912 — 12.8.1968. Danish Assistant of the C.P.D. Daughter of the bankfuldmægtig (?) Vilhelm Kristian Agerschou and Kristina Maria Sand Valborg Rinder. Matriculated from Randers 1930, M.A. 1940 in Nordic philology at Copenhagen. Assistant of the C.P.D. in 1940-49. Married 1934 Martinus Simonsen (1910–1958, divorce…