BOLLENSEN, Georg Friedrich (in Russia known as Fëdor Fëdorovič Bolenzen). Rossdorf, Kreis Göttingen 12.1.1809 — Wiesbaden 29.2.1896. German Indologist in Russia. Son of a farmer, Johann Friedrich Bollensen and Christiane Sophia Behrens. Gymnasium in Göttingen. Then studied theology at Göttingen, where Ewald prompted him to take Oriental languages. Further details…
BOISSEVAIN, Jan Wilhelm. Amsterdam 27.9.1874 — Velp, Rheden, Gelderland 24.3.1959. Dutch Indologist and Theosophist. Son of Gideon Maria Boissevain and Louise Caroline toe Laer. Ph.D. 1905 Leiden (under Speyer). Gymnasium teacher of Dutch and History in Amsterdam. Publications: Diss. Het indische tooneelstuk Prabodhacandrodaya. 1. Toelichting en beoordeeling. 400 p. Leiden…
BOISSEROLLE-BOISVILLIERS, Aurèle-Jean de (Baron A.-J. de Boisserolle, chevalier de Boisvilliers). Paris 3.9.1764 — Sumène (Gard) 1.2.1829. French General, apparently interested in Sanskrit. Son of a civil servant, Count François de Boisserolle, and Elisabeth Law de Lauriston, joined the army in 1782. 1782-83 served as a sous-lieutenant, then gardes du corps.…
BOISEN, Lars Nannestad. Vesterborg, Lolland 8.2.1803 — Ibid. 22.4.1875. Danish Priest and Theologian interested in Sanskrit and Oriental Studies. Bishop of Vesterborg-Birket. Son of Peter Outzen Boisen (1762–1831), the bishop of Vesterborg, and Anna Nannestad (1775–1853). Educated by his father and in 1817-19 at Nykøbing school. From 1819 studies of…
BOHLEN, Peter von. Wüppels, Jeverland 13.3.1796 — Halle 6.2.1840. German Indologist and Orientalist. Professor in Königsberg. Son of a poor farmer, Christian Bohlen, belonging to an old Pomoranian noble family, and Frauke Margaretha Ocken. Parents died early and he had a checquered life. He took up the old title of…
BOGORODICKIJ, Vasilij Alekseevič. Carevokokšajsk (now Joškar-Ola in Mari Republic) 7(19).4.1857 — Kazan 23.12.1941. Russian IE and Slavic Linguist. Professor in Kazan. Son of a priest. School at Carevokokšajsk and Kazan. Studies at Kazan under Baudouin de Courtenay et al. Kand. 1880. PD 1881 Kazan, for comparative linguistics. Mag. 1884, now…
BÖHTLINGK, Otto Nikolaus von (Russian Otto Nikolaevič Betlingk). St.Petersburg 11.6.(30.5.)1815 — Leipzig 1.4.1904. Russian (German) Indologist. Born in St.Petersburg as a Dutch citizen in a family (father Nikolaus Dietrich Böhtlingk, 1773–1839, a merchant), which originally came from Lübeck, his mother, Maria Wilhelmina Strahlboin (died soon after his birth), was a…
BODE, Mabel Kate Haynes (née Haynes). 28.10.1864 — Shaftesbury, Dorset 20.1.1922. British Indologist (Pāli scholar). Daughter of Robert William Haynes (d. 1879), a lawyer and law publisher, and his wife Emily (d. 1870). Educated at Notting Hill High School for Girls in London. In 1888 married William Ernest Bode, an…
BOBRINSKOY, George Vladimir (Russian Georgij Vladimirovič Bobrinskoj). Tula, Russia 23.1.1901 — Franklin, Mass. 15/17.11.1985. U.S. (Russian born) Indologist. Professor in Chicago. Born in Russia as the son of Count Vladimir Alekseevič Bobrinskoj and Maria Nikonova. In the Russian civil war fought in the army of Denikin, but soon left Russia,…
BLOOMFIELD, Maurice (born Blumenfeld). Bielitz, Austrian Silesia (now Bielsko-Biała in Poland) 23.2.1855 — San Francisco, CA 13.6.1928. U.S. (of German Jewish Origin) Indologist. Professor in Baltimore. Born in the then Austrian Silesia as the son of Solomon Blumenfeld (then Bloomfield) and Beatha Jaeger he moved in the age of four…