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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…
BLOMBERG, Carl Johan. Ljusdal, Hälsingland 29.5.1838 — Härnösand 15.3.1890. Swedish Schoolteacher interested in Sanskrit. Teacher in Härnösand. Son of post master Carl Ludvig Blomberg (1808–1855) and Mathilda Caspolin.. From 1855 studies at Uppsala, 1863 fil.kand., 1865 diss., 1866 Ph.D. In 1869-70 in France, Germany, and England. Began his career as…
BLOCH, Ernst Theodor. Christiansfeld, Schleswig (now Slesvig, Denmark) 8.5.1867 — Calcutta 20.10.1909. German Indologist. Born as the son of a dyer master, Bernhard Bloch, in the Herrnhutian colony of Christiansfeld in the then German North Schleswig, went there to school. In 1880-82 at Unitätsanstalt and 1882-87 at Pädagogium of the…
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 Southern Alsace. After Lycée Charlemagne, studied in Paris (Fac. des lettres, etc.) under Lévi and Meillet (also Gauthiot, Foucher…
BERNHARD, Franz. Schweidnitz in Silesia (now Świdnica in Poland) 31.5.1931 — Mustang/Nepal 5.9.1971. German Indologist. Professor in Hamburg. Son of a butcher from Silesia. Studiedin 1952-60 at Göttingen classical philology, Indology (under W. Thomas and Waldschmidt), IE, and even Finno-Ugric philology. Ph.D. 1958 Göttingen. In 1956-60 worked at Tübingen University…
BARNETT, Lionel David. Liverpool 21.10.1871 — London 28.1.1960. British Indologist. Son of Jewish banker Barron Lewis Barnett (1843–1914) and Adelaide Cowen. Educated at Liverpool Institute and at University College in Liverpool. From 1892 studies at Trinity College, Cambridge: B.A. 1896 in classical languages. After two years at Halle and Berlin…
BALLINI, Ambrogio. Asola (near Mantova) 19.7.1879 — Rome 20.3.1950. Italian Indologist, especially Jaina Scholar. Professor in Padua, Milano and Rome. Studied at the university of Bologna, interested soon in Sanskrit (under Formichi), but also acquainted himself with Greek and Latin. Further studies in Germany (at Bonn under Jacobi), at Padua…