BARNETT, Lionel David. Liverpool 21.10.1871 — London 28.1.1960. British Indologist. Son of Jewish banker Barron Lewis Barnett (1843–1914) and Adelaide Cowen. Educated at Liverpool Institute and at University College in Liverpool. From 1892 studies at Trinity College, Cambridge: B.A. 1896 in classical languages. After two years at Halle and Berlin…
BARIĆ, Henrik. Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) 28.1.1888 — Belgrade 3.4.1957. Yugoslavian (Croatian) Linguist. Born of a poor clerical family. Studies at Graz (i.al. Meringer) and Vienna. Ph.D. 1912 Vienna. From 1920 PD, then Professor of Comparative Grammar of IE Languages at Royal Yugoslavian University in Belgrade in the 1930s and till…
BAREAU, André. Saint Mandé (Seine) 31.12.1921 — Paris 2.3.1993. French Buddhologist. Professor in Paris. Son of an accountant, a modest family. After undergraduate studies at École normale supérieure. worked as schoolteacher and now also began studies under Filliozat and Demiéville. Licence de philosophie 1946, diplom of É.P.H.É. Dr. ès lettres…
BARDÓN Y GÓMEZ, Lázaro Silverio. Inicio, Riello, Léon 8.6.1817 — Collado Mediano, Madrid 9.6.1897. Spanish Priest and Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Born in the province of Léon, son of Juan Bardón de Rabanal and María Antonia Gómez. Priest from the seminary of Asturias, he interested early in classical languages,…
BARDELLI, Giuseppe. Brancialino, Pieve S. Stefano, Arezzo 10.4.1815 — Florence 2.10.1865. Abbate. Italian Indologist and Orientalist (Sinologist and Coptic Scholar). Professor at Pisa, one of the first pioneers of Indian studies in Italy. Tuscan, son of Michelangelo Bardelli and Maria Gabrieli. Began his career as a priest after the seminary…
BARBOSA, Duarte. Lisbon c. 1480? — Cebu, Philippines 1.5.1521. Portuguese Traveller in the East. Son of Diogo Barbosa, a high servant of the Dukes of Braganza. He came to India as a young man, apparently with Cabral in 1500 or in the third expedition in 1501, stayed mainly in Kerala…
BARATTI, Giuseppina. 18?? — 19??. Italian, student of Kerbaker at Naples. One G. Baratti was born in Naples 1887 and was in the 1920s school professor of Latin and Italian in Santa Maria Capua Vetere in Campania. Publications: Translated: “L’episodio di Sanatsujâta esposto”, Mem. Accad. Napoli 2, 1911 (1913), 257-354.…
BANNERTH, Ernst. Eilenburg, Sachsen 13.10.1895 — Cairo 29.4.1976. German Urdu and Islamic Scholar and Catholic priest in Austria. Austrian citizen. Educated in Leipzig, 1913 became professional officer and 1916 sent to Near East. British war prisoner 1917-20 in India, then joined Benedictines and studied theology at Vienna. Ordained priest 1930.…
BANG KAUP, Willy (Willi, Johann Wilhelm Max Julius Bang Kaup). Wesel 8/9.8.1869 — Darmstadt 8.10.1934. German Linguist, Turkic and Iranian Scholar. Professor at Louvain and Berlin. Born in Germany, in Wesel by the Rhine near to the Belgian border, son of notary (later mayor) Heinrich Bang (1838–1896) and Auguste Karolina…
BĂNĂŢEANU, Vlad. Timişoara 22.8.1900 — Bucharest 8.11.1963. Romanian IE and Classical Scholar, Armenologist and Indologist. Professor in Bucureşti. First studies of law and philology at Cernăuţi (1918-23), wrote his dissertation on Latin grammar. Then studied in Paris in the 1920s Indian, IE, Classic and Celtic philology under such teachers as…