BASHAM, Arthur Llewellyn (“Bash”). Loughton, Essex 24.5.1914 (Ballhatchet 24.6.) — Calcutta 27.1.1986. British Indologist in Australia. Professor in London and Canberra. Son of a journalist, Abraham Arthur Edward Basham, who had also served in Indian army, and Maria Jane Thompson, also a journalist and writer, spent part of his childhood…
BARUCH, Willy. Herford, Kr. Detmold 1900 — Montfavet, Avignon ?.3.1954. German Indologist, Sinologist, Tibetan, Buddhist and Central Asian Scholar in France. Born of a Jewish family in Westfalen. Studies at Berlin and Leipzig, student of Lüders and F. Weller, then of Kirfel at Bonn. Ph.D. 1937 Bonn. Leaving Germany he…
BARTOLI, Emilio. 2.10.1861 — 19??. Italian Indologist and Translator of Sanskrit Literature. Student of Kerbaker at Naples. In the 1910s teacher (“professor”) of Latin and Greek at the R. Liceo Vittorio Emanuele in Naples, earlier perhaps in Bari. In 1923-25 and 1934-35 Docente di Grammatica comparata delle lingue classiche e…
BARTHÉLEMY-SAINT-HILAIRE, Jules. Paris 19.8.1805 — Paris 24.11.1895. French Philosopher, Classical Scholar and Politician, also interested in Indology and Indian Thought. Born as illegitimate, according to much later unconfirmed rumours the son of Napoleon I. After Lycée Louis-le-Grand, in 1825-28 he served in Ministry of Finances, then as a journalist in…
BARRETT, LeRoy Carr. Cape Girardeau, Missouri 11.3.1877 — Hartford, Conn. 16.7.1960. U.S. Classical Scholar and Indologist. Son of Rev. Thomas Carr Barrett (1841–1916) and Sophia Baptista Muschany (1845–1935). Studies at Washington and Lee (A.B. 1897) and Johns Hopkins (A.M. 1898, Ph.D. 1903), Bloomfield’s student. In 1903-07 Instructor of Latin at…
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…
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…
BARANNIKOV, Aleksej Petrovič. Zolotonoša, Poltavskaja obl. 25.2. (9.3.)1890 — Leningrad (St.Petersburg) 4.9.1952. Russian (Ukrainian) Indologist. Son of a carpenter, graduated 1914 from Kiev (Kyiv) University (learned Sanskrit from Knauer). In 1916-17 taught at Pedagocical Academy, 1919-20 at Pedagocical Institute in Samara, 1920 at Saratov University. In 1921-36 Teacher at St.Petersburg/Leningrad…
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…
BALLINI, Ambrogio. Asola (near Mantova) 19.7.1879 — Rome 20.3.1950. Italian Indologist, especially Jaina Scholar. Professor in Padua, Milano and Rome. Studied at the university of Bologna, interested soon in Sanskrit (under Formichi), but also acquainted himself with Greek and Latin. Further studies in Germany (at Bonn under Jacobi), at Padua…