AMMER, Karl. Vienna 25.10.1911 — Halle 16.1.1970. Austrian Indologist and Linguist in East Germany. Professor in Halle. Of modest origin, son of a warehouse worker, Karl Ammer and Barbara Mattes. Gymnasium in Vienna. From 1930 studies at Vienna University (under B. Geiger, Frauwallner, Trubetskoy, Havers, et al.). Ph.D. 1939. From…
ALBRIGHT, Ruth Norton (née Ruth Norton). Elizabeth, Union County. NJ 1.6.1892 — Baltimore 1.10.1979. U.S. Indologist. Daughter of Paul Thornley Norton (1865–1936) and Caroline Bain. Student of Bloomfield at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Ph.D. 1921 Johns Hopkins. Right after Ph.D., in 1921, she married her fellow-student, the soon well-known Semitic…