CALMBERG, Ernst Philipp Ludwig. Wasungen, Sachsen-Meiningen 12.4.1794 — Hamburg 29.1.1851. German Schoolteacher and Philologist. Son of a deacon (then minister), educated at village school and Meiningen Lyceum. Studies of theology and philology at Jena. Worked as a tutor and from 1819 as a teacher at Johanneum in Hamburg, where, from…
BURKHARD, Karl Friedrich. Leipheim bei Ulm, Bavaria 2.9.1824 — Vienna 19.2.1893. German School-Teacher and Indologist in Austria. Son of the Protestant minister Johann Andreas Christoph Burkhard, educated at Augsburg Gymnasium in 1840-44. From 1844 studies of theology, philosophy and philology at Erlangen, from 1845 theology and especially philology at Halle,…
BURG, Jacob Fritz. Berlin 27.3.1860 — 16.11.1928. German (Jew) Philologist (Germanist and Runologist). Ph.D. 1885 Berlin. Worked in Hamburg Stadtbibliothek: 1892 Hilfsarbeiter, 1894 Sekretär, 1907 Bibliothekar, retired 1926. Married 1886 Ida Seligmann, children. Publications: Diss. Die älteren nordischen Runeninschriften. 176 p. Berlin 1885; other writing unrelated with Asia. – “Avestisch hisi∂iḭāþ”,…
BURCHARDI, Gustav. Flensburg 1866 — 19??. German Linguist. Ph.D. 1892 Halle. In 1910 visited the Isle of Man and was called Professor, in 1913 in Limerick, Ireland, joined Irish Text Society – apparently he was keenly interested in Celtic languages. In 1913-24 corresponded with Streitberg. Publications: Diss. Die Intensiva des…
BUNSEN, Christian Karl Josias (then Karl, Freiherr von Bunsen). Korbach, Waldeck 25.8.1791 — Bonn 28.11.1860. German Diplomat and Scholar. Son of a Dutch officer, Heinrich Christian Bunsen, who died already before his birth in 1790 (but see below), and Johanette Brocken (or Brocki, 1750–1819). School in Korbach, studies of theology…
BÜHLER, Johann Michael. 1817 — India 7.6.1854. German Indologist and Missionary in South India. From Adelburg in Württemberg. After several years of Sanskrit studies in Germany (perhaps under Ewald, with whom he later corresponded) he left for India as a missionary of Basel Mission in 1846. He arrived at Calicut…
BÜHLER, Johann Georg. Borstel bei Nienburg (Hannover) 19.7.1837 — Bodensee 8.4.1898. German Indologist in India (1863-80) and Austria. Professor in Vienna. Son of Rev. Johann Georg Bühler (1802–1891) and Charlotte Elisabeth Hagemann. Educated in Hannover, where he had among his teachers the philologists Ahrens and Kühner. In 1855 he came…
BRUNE, Johannes H. Bochum 28.12.1883 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Roman Catholic. Matriculated in 1903 from Bochum’s Gymnasium. From 1903 studies of philology and politics at Kiel, after some years (10 terms) switched into Indology and comparative linguistics (Oldenberg, Deussen). Ph.D. 1909 Kiel. In the second edition of his…
BRUGMANN, Karl Friedrich Christian. Wiesbaden 16.3.1849 — Leipzig 29.6.1919. German Indo-Europaean Scholar. Professor in Leipzig. Until 1882 wrote his name as Brugman (with one n, due to the Dutch ancestry). Born in a family with many children, parents Karl Wilhelm Heinrich Brugman, later Staatskassendirektor, and Eleonore Christiane Enders. Gymnasium in…
BROCKHAUS, Hermann. Amsterdam 28.1.1806 — Leipzig 5.1.1877. German Indologist and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Leipzig. Born in Amsterdam in a German family, son of the famous publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772–1823) and Sophie Wilhelmine Arnoldine Beurhaus (d. 1809). In 1810 the family returned to Germany after mother’s death. School in…