BARRETT, LeRoy Carr. Cape Girardeau, Missouri 11.3.1877 — Hartford, Conn. 16.7.1960. U.S. Classical Scholar and Indologist. Son of Thomas Carr Barrett (1841–1916) and Sophia Baptista Muschany. 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 Johns Hopkins,…
BARNETT, Lionel David. Liverpool 21.10.1871 — London 28.1.1960. British Indologist. Son of Jewish banker Barron Lewis Barnett and Adelaide Cowen. Educated at University College in Liverpool and from 1892 at Trinity College, Cambridge, studying classical languages: B.A. 1896. After two years at Halle and Berlin back to Cambridge:, M.A. 1899…
BARDELLI, Giuseppe. Branciolino, 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 worker, 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…
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 — 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 (Teza)…
BALLANTYNE, James Robert. Kelso, Teriotdale 13.12.1813 — Pimlico, London 18.2.1864. British (Scottish) Indologist in India. Son of Alexandet Thomson Ballantyne (1776–1847), journalist and printer, and his wife Anne (sister of —> J. Michael), his younger brother was Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825–1894), a noted author of juvenile fiction. Educated at Kelso…
BAKE, Arnold Adriaan. Hilversum 19.5.1899 — London 8.10.1963. Dutch Indologist in India and in the U.K. Born in a well-to-do family, son of William Herman Bake (1854–1916) and Johanna Bartha van den Burg (1857?–1932). School at Hilversum and in 1912-18 in Haarlem. He planned to go to Indonesia, and therefore…
BAILEY, Thomas Grahame. Ambala 8.9.1872 — Edinburgh 5.4.1942. Rev. British (Scottish) Priest and Indologist, a Specialist of Urdu and North-West Indian Languages. Son of Wellesley Cosby Bailey, a medical missionary, and Alice Hargraves. After early years in India sent to school in Edinburgh. M.A. and B.D., ordained. In 1895-1920 missionary…
AVERY, John. Conway, Mass. 18.9.1837 — North Bridgetown, Maine 1.9.1887. U.S. Indologist, Linguist and Ethnologist. Professor of Classics in U.S. Universities. Son of Joseph Avery (1789–1870) and Sylvia Clary (1793–1851), lost rather early his parents. Graduated 1861 from Amherst College, then further studies at the Leicester Academy (Mass.) in 1861-62.…