BRANDES, Jan Laurens Andries. Rotterdam 13.1.1857 — Batavia (Jakarta) 26.6.1906. Dutch Indonesian Philologist and Archaeologist. Son of a Lutheran priest, Johannes Henrikus Brandes (1823–1876) and Maria Cornelia Gude. Aften school in Amsterdam studied 1874-79 theology (but also Sanskrit) at Amsterdam Athenaeum (now A. university), in 1879-83 Indology at Leiden (in…
BRAUNHOLTZ, Gustav Ernst Karl. Cambridge 19.3.1887 — 21.4.1967. British Linguist (IE and Classic). Son of Eugen Gustav Braunholtz (1859–1941), German academician who moved in 1884 to Cambridge (note his diss. Die erste nichtchristliche Parabel des Barlaam und Josaphat. Ihre Herkunft und Verbreitung. 8+110 p. Halle 1884) and Elisabeth Breul. Studies…
BRANDI, Mario. Trieste 11.12.1891 — 1943/44?. Italian Theosophist. Son of Salvatore Brandi and Elisa Iacchia. He authored several mystic books, two in collaboration with Emma Tedeschi (1896–1943/44?). In November 1943 both were arrested in Nervi (Genoa) as Jews and sent to Auschwitz. Publications: Lo Yoga della fede: Bhagavadgītā 12.: testo…
BOYLE, John Archibald. 1845 — Palamcotta, Madras 9.2.1875. British Civil Servant in South India. Son of Rev. Edward Fitzmaurice Boyle of Hammersmith. Educated at Radley College (Oxfordshire), until 1858. From 1865 in Madras Civil Service. Publications: “Telugu Ballad Poetry”, IA 3, 1874, 1-6; “Notes on castes in Southern India”, Ibid.…
BOWLES, Charles (then Charles Bowles Shakespear). Leicestershire 1811 — 1899. British Teacher of Hindustani. Son of Charles Bowles and Mary Shakespear, nephew and heir of —> John Shakespear (1774–1858). Served many years as his uncle’s assistant and succeeded him as the Professor of Hindustani at Addiscombe. After Shakespear’s death in…
BOXER, Charles Ralph. Sandown, Isle of Wight 8.4.1904 — St.Albans, Hertfordshire 27.4.2000. British Historian of Early Colonial Asia. Son of Colonel Hugh Edward Richard Boxer (d. in war 1915) and Jane Patterson. Grew up in Dorset. Educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst. In 1923-47 served in Lincolnshire Regiment, first in…
BOUCHET, Jean Venant. Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendée) 12.4.1655 — 1732. Father. S.J. French Missionary in Thailand and India. Jesuit novice 1670. First briefly in Thailand, where he arrived with the French embassy in 1688. When the Jesuits were forced to leave in 1688 he entered Madurai mission. Following Roberto de Nobili’s methods…
BOSWELL, John Alexander Corrie. India 26.10.1835 — Kensington, London 6.1.1872. British Colonial Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Robert Bruce Boswell and Susan Anne Carnegie. From 1855 in Madras Civil Service. In the early 1870s the Officiating Collector of the Kistnah district, but had soon to retire because of…
BOUQUET, Alan Coates. Forest Hill, London 24.5.1884 — Cambridge 4.3.1976. Rev. British Scholar of Religion. Son of Robert Coates Bouquet, Registrar to the Art Union of London, of Huguenot descent, and Elizabeth Stow. After St.Dunstan’s College and London University College studies at Cambridge (Trinity College): B.A. 1905, M.A. 1910, B.D. 1918,…
BORROW, George Henry. East Dereham, Norfolk 5.7.1803 — Lowestoft, Suffolk 26.7.1881. British Author. Son of Thomas Borrow (1758–1824), an army recruiting officer, and Ann Perfrement. Educated in Edinburgh and Norwich, for a while also briefly in Ireland, then studied law, but soon turned to languages and literature. In 1825 first…