BLEICHSTEINER, Robert. Vienna 6.1.1891 — Vienna 10.4.1954. Austrian Linguist, Scholar of Iranian and Caucasian Languages and Ethnology, later also of Mongolian and Tibetan. Son of Josef Ludwig Bl. School and studies in Vienna. Ph.D. 1913 Vienna, then worked in a library. From 1922 PD for Caucasian Linguistics there, tit. ao.…
BHARATI, Agehananda (Leopold Fischer), Swami. Vienna 20.4.1923 — Rochester, NY 14.5.1991. Austrian-born Indologist, Tantric Scholar and Anthropologist, for a long time in India, then in the U.S.A. Naturalised 1968 as U.S. citizen. Professor in Syracuse. Son of Hans Fischer and Margarethe von May. Grew up in Vienna, during war served…
BAUER, Hubert. 18?? — 19??. Austrian (?) Student of Iranian. Ph.D. 1920 Vienna. Publications: Diss. Das Kārnāmak i Artaxšīr i Pāpakān im Vergleiche mit neupersischen und arabischen Quellen. Manuscript, Vienna 1920. Sources: Not in Ö.B.L., remains untraced.
AMMER, Karl. Vienna 25.10.1911 — Halle 16.1.1970. Austrian Indologist and Linguist in East Germany. Of modest origin. Professor in Halle. Studies at Vienna University (under Geiger, Frauwallner, Trubetskoy, Havers, et al.). Ph.D. 1939. From 1938 Librarian, then from 1941 several years Assistant at Oriental Inst., Vienna, but soon interrupted by…