BOGOSLOVSKIJ, Vasilij Alekseevič. Moscow 20.1.1932 — 25.4.1986. Russian Tibetologist. Son of a public servant. Studies at the Hist. Faculty of Moscow University, graduated 1954. Kand. ist. nauk 1961. Naučnyj sotrudnik at the Oriental Institute 1957-67, from 1968 at the Institut Dal’nego Vostoka in Moscow. Publications: At least 30 items, i.a.:…
BLEEKER, Claas Jouco. Beneden Knijpe, Schoterland, Friesland 12.9.1898 — Amsterdam 5.5.1983. Dutch Historian of Religion. Son of Rev. Johan Jakob Bl. and Jantje Zuur. School in Leeuwarden, studies of theology at Leiden, also studies of Egyptology and religion at Berlin. Reformed priest 1925. Th.Dr. 1929 Leiden (diss. on Egyptian religion).…
BEVERIDGE, Henry. Inzievar, Fife 9.2.1837 — London 8.11.1929. British (Scottish) Historian of Mughal and Colonial India. Son of the elder —> Henry B. Educated in Glasgow and Edinburgh, studies at Glasgow University and Queen’s College in Belfast. Joined the I.C.S. through competition in 1857, and served in Bengal until 1893,…
BEVERIDGE, Annette Susannah (née Akroyd). Stourbridge, Worcestershire 13.12.1842 — London 27.3.1929. British Oriental (Persian and Eastern Turkish) Scholar. Wife of —> Henry B. (the younger). Daughter of William Akroyd, an industrialist from Yorkshire, she was educated at Bedford College in London in 1862-67. In 1872 left for India to work…
BAZIN-FOUCHER, Émile Eugénie Marguerite Virginie (“Éna”). Chesnay (Yvelines) 7.10.1889 — 30.1.1952. French Art Historian. Originally studied English at Sorbonne, then 1915-18 Indology at E.P.H.E. under S. Lévi. She married —> A. Foucher in 1919 in Colombo, on way to India. Some say that she had apparently met him at the…
BAYLEY, Edward Clive. St.Petersburg 17.10.1821 — Keymer, Sussex 30.4.1884. Sir. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Antiquarian Studies. The only son of Edward Clive B. of Manchester and Margaret Fenton, educated at Haileybury. Served in India in 1842-54 and 1857-78. In 1842 he came to India, spent a few…
BAYER, Theophilus (Gottlieb) Siegfried. Königsberg 5/6.1.1694 — St.Petersburg 10.2.1738. German Orientalist and Historian, from Königsberg, was elected to the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences and moved to St.Petersburg. In Russian his name is variously spelled as Beer, Beèr, and Bajer’. Son of painter Johann Friedrich Bayer and Anna Katharina Porath,…
BASHAM, Arthur Llewellyn. Loughton, Essex 24.5.1914 — Calcutta 27.1.1986. British Indologist in Australia. Professor in London and Canberra. Son of a journalist, Abraham Arthur Edward B., who had also served in Indian army, and Maria Jane Thompson, also a journalist and writer, educated at Gorleston School. Began his career as…
BARTOL’D, Vasilij Vladimirovič (Wilhelm Barthold). St.Petersburg 3(15).11.1869 — Leningrad 19.8.1930. Russian Scholar of Central Asian History and Geography, one of the most famous of his time. Born of a Russianized German family. School and from 1891 studies at St.Petersburg, first of Oriental languages, from 1892 also Asian history. Magistr 1893,…
BALLHATCHET, Kenneth Arthur. Bristol 29.11.1922 — 13.3.1995. British Historian of South Asia. Professor in London. Educated at Clifton College in Bristol and from 1941 at Peterhouse College in Cambridge. The studies were interrupted by service in RAF in 1942-46, two years of which were spent in India. Back in Cambridge…