CAMPBELL, John. 18?? — 1???. British. In 1866-88 (unpaid) Professor of Bengali at King’s College, London. Probably had served in India. Publications: Nothing found. Sources: With such a common name he is very hard to trace.
CAMMIADE, Louis Aime François. Madras 2.6.1872 — Worthing, Sussex 3.11.1951. British Civil Servant and lay Archaeologist in India. Son of merchant Gilbert Henry Cammiade (1841–1911) and Anne-Marie Adeline Sicé. Graduated from Madras University 1892 and in law from Middle Temple 1901. In 1895 joined I.C.S. in Madras Presidency, from 1903 Deputy…
CAIUS, Jean Ferdinand. Médoc 17.1.1877 — Bombay 27.7.1944. S.J. Father. French Missionary in India. School in Toulouse, before joining Jesuits. Joined Madura Mission and came to India in 1895. Taught at St. Joseph’s College in Tiruchirapalli until 1905, also started a natural history museum there. Theological studies at Kurseong and…
BUSCHMANN, Johann Carl Eduard. Magdeburg 14.2.1805 — Berlin 21.4.1880. German Linguist. Son of a craftsman. After school in Magdeburg studies of Classics, Arabic, Persian and especially Sanskrit at Berlin (Bopp), then at Göttingen, but never completed Ph.D. Later turned to Malayo-Polynesian and American languages. As tutor in Mexico 1826-28 he learned…
BURROWS, Stephen Montagu. Headington, Oxfordshire 26.12.1856 — Oxford 4.3.1935. Sir. British Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Montagu Burrows (1819–1905), Professor of Naval History at Oxford, and Mary Anna Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner. Educated at Eton, studies at Exeter College, Oxford. B.A. 1879, M.A. 1884. In 1880 joined Ceylon C.S. Mainly served in…
BURKITT, Francis Crawford. Marylebone, London 3.9.1864 — Cambridge 11.5.1935. British Theologian, Biblical and Syriac Scholar. Son of Crawford Burkitt and his wife Frances Elizabeth. Educated at Harrow. Studied first mathematics at Cambridge (Trinity College), B.A. 1886, then turned to theology. M.A. 1890. In 1903-05 Lecturer in Palaeography, from 1905 Professor of…
BUHOT, Henry Jean Félix. Paris 13.8.1885 — Paris 5.9.1952. French Painter and Art Historian. The only child of painter Félix Buhot (1847–1898) and his English wife, Henriette Johnston. After school in Paris travelled much in France, England, Germany and Italy. During WW I worked as English interpreter in a Canadian regiment.…
BUGAULT, Guy Emmanuel. St.Coulomb (Ille-et-Vilaine), Brittany 7.7.1917 — Le Reincy (Seine-Saint Denis) 27.10.2002. French Indologist. Student of Lacombe. In 1945-54 taught at Lycée Poincaré in Nancy, then in C.N.R.S., 1965-73 Maître Assistant at Université de Paris-X-Nanterre. In 1973-74 Lecturer, then Professor of Indian and Comparative Philosophy at Paris IV (Sorbonne),…
BÜCHI, Ernst Carl. Aadorf, Thurgau 3.9.1914 — Löhningen, Schaffhausen 1.11.1981. Swiss Physical Anthropologist. Professor in Berlin. Grew up in Thurgau, school in Schaffhausen. Studies at Zürich, Ph.D. 1942 under Schlaginhaufen. Assistant, then PD of geography at Zürich. Second Ph.D. 1949 Copenhagen. From 1950-58 Superintendent in Department of Anthropology in Calcutta,…
BRUNNER, Linus. Woollen, Canton Aargau 7.3.1909 — St.Gallen 3.12.1987. Swiss Linguist. Son of Linus Brunner, a farmer. Ph.D. 1936 Zürich. Professor ar Canton School in St.Gallen. Few have accepted his far-reaching theories. Publications: Diss. Entwicklung der Funktionen der lateinischen Konjunktion dum. 110 p. Tübingen 1936. – Die gemeinsamen Wurzeln des semitischen…