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…
BOYD, Palmer. Simla, India 29.9.1840 — 1875. British Indologist. Son of the lieutenant-general Mossom Boyd of Bengal Army and Charlotte Loftie, joined himself first the army and served from 1858 as second lieutenant in Bengal Artillery. Resigned in 1864 and from 1867 studied Sanskrit etc. at Cambridge (Trinity College) under…
BOXWELL, John. Butlerstown, co. Wexford 31.5.1838 — Dacca 15.5.1891. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Francis B. and Martha Carey. Educated in Armagh, studies at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1888 in Bengal Civil Service, some time Collector of Gaya. In the 1870s Deputy Commissioner in Santal Parganas, finally…
BOXBERGER, Robert. Gotha 28.5.1836 — Stadtsulza near Weimar 30.3.1890. German Literate interested in Sanskrit. Son of a fireplace-maker, gymnasium in Erfurt, then studied 1855-58 philology at Jena (i.al. under Schleicher). In 1858-76 and 1878-85 teacher at the Erfurt Realschule (Gymnasium) and 1868-76 librarian of ther royal library there, 1876-78 in…
BOURQUIN, Auguste Ali. Sonvilier, canton Bern 8.4.1848 — Denver 14.1.1928. Swiss Protestant Priest and Indologist. Son of Louis Alcide Bourquin and Zelie Chopard. In 1882 he was member of Scottish Mission at General Assembly Institution in Bombay, but returned soon after that to Europe after having spent eleven years as…
BOSCH, Frederik David Kan. Potchefstroom, Transvaal 17.6.1887 — Leiden 20.7.1968. Dutch Indologist and Indonesian Scholar. Professor in Leiden. Born in South Africa, son of Hendrik B. and Judith Kan (d. 1889), after his mother’s death came to live with his two aunts in Amsterdam and went to school there. He…
BORTOLAZZI, Bortolo Maria. Bassano (Veneto) 1807 — 8.1.1879. Italian interested in Sanskrit. Of a Venetian noble family living in Bassano. No biography is available, but he died in his native district. Pagine Friuliane calls him professor and “noto orientalista”. Only one Indological work by him is known. Programma del comunale ginnasio…
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 B. and Anna Isáková. He is said (by Bečka) to have been a student of the…
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, and Regina Lincker. Grew up in Aschaffenburg, where he had K. Windischmann as his teacher at the local Gymnasium, then at the short-lived…
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…