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 Ph.D. with an unpublished dissertation on the Hevajrapradīpa.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…
BOLTZ, August. Breslau 26.9.1819 — Darmstadt 1.5.1907. German Literate, Language Teacher and Translator interested in Sanskrit. Gymnasium in Breslau, then worked in trade and studied languages. As tutor of an aristocrat St.Petersburg family travelled around Europe (1839-42), then teacher in St.Petersburg. Ph.D. 1845 Jena. In 1852-64 taught Russian, Spanish, and…
BOLLING, George Melville. Baltimore 13.4.1871 — Princeton, NJ 1.6.1963. U.S. Greek Scholar and Indologist. Professor of Classical Philology in Columbus. Son of William Nicholls B. and Hannah Lamb Bonham. Educated at Loyola College in Baltimore (A.B. 1891), and at Johns Hopkins (now also Sanskrit under Bloomfield), where Ph.D. 1896. In…
BOLLER, Johann Anton. Krems an der Donau 2.1.1811 — Vienna 19.1.1869. Austrian Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Vienna. Studied first medicine, but turned soon to philology, but never completed his Ph.D. Learned Sanskrit from books. From 1845 PD in Sanskrit at Vienna and from 1848 correspondant member of Austrian…
BOLLENSEN, Friedrich. Rossdorf, Kreis Göttingen 12.1.1809 — Wiesbaden 29.2.1896. German Indologist in Russia. Son of a farmer, attended the Gymnasium in Göttingen. Then studied theology at Göttingen, where Ewald prompted him to take Oriental languages. Further details of his study time unknown, Ph.D. 1830 there (not in Indology). He was…
BOISSEVAIN, Jan Wilhelm. Amsterdam 27.9.1874 — Velp, Rheden, Gelderland 24.3.1959. Dutch Indologist and Theosophist. Son of Gideon Maria B. and Louise Caroline toe Laer. Ph.D. 1905 Leiden (under Speyer). Gymnasium teacher of Dutch and History in Haarlem. Publications: Diss. Het indische tooneelstuk Prabodhacandrodaya. 1. Toelichting en beoordeeling. 400 p. Leiden…
BOISSEROLLE-BOISVILLIERS, Aurèle-Jean de. Paris 3.9.1764 — Sumène, Gard 1.2.1829. French General, apparently interested in Sanskrit. Son of a civil servant, Count de B., joined the army in 1782. 1782-83 served as a sous-lieutenant, then gardes du corps. In 1791 the whole unit was dissolved. Boisserolle-B. lived now for a while…