SCHMIDTS, Peter (Pēteris Šmits, Russian Pëtr Petrovič Šmidt). Rauna, Latvia (then of Russia) 25.12.1869 — Riga 5.6.1938. Latvian Linguist. Professor of IE Antiquity and Baltic Philology at Riga. Studied Russian, Chinese and Manchu in Moscow and St.Petersburg. After a long visit to China he became Professor of Chinese at Vladivostok…
PLĀĶIS, Juris. Kabile, Courland 22.6.1869 — Usol’lag near Perm, Russia 1.8.1942. Latvian IE Scholar. Professor of Comparative Linguistics (Lithuanian, Sanskrit and IE) at Latvian University in Riga (in 1924 and in the 1930s). Also taught Sanskrit. In 1920-21 Latvian Minister of Education. Died in a camp. Publications: Wrote on Baltic…
GLEYE, Arthur. Riga 21.10.1867 — Riga 5.2.1937. German (Livonian) IE Linguist. Born in a middle class family, studied in 1888-91 comparative philology at Dorpat (Tartu). Ph.D. 1893 Dorpat. Student of L. Meyer. In 1901-21 Lecturer of German at Tomsk University in Siberia, then lived in Riga. His later works were…