COOK, Walter Anthony. Washington, DC 17.2.1922 — Washington, DC 27.4.1999. S.J. U.S. Linguist. Son of Patrick Michael Cook and Catherine Lavinia Gaskins. B.A. 1945 Woodstock College, in teaching of mathematics. In 1949-62 teacher in Jamshedpur, Bihar. Also studied theology at De Nobili College in Poona and St. Mary’s College in…
CHAVARRIA-AGUILAR, Oscar Luis. San José, Costa Rica 21.8.1922 — San José, Costa Rica 10.9.2005. Costa Rican Linguist in the U.S.A. Son of Francisco José Ricardo de Jesús Chavarría Flores (1892–1937) and Adela Joaquina María Aguilar Mathé. School in San José. Came to the U.S.A. in 1942. In 1942-45 served in U.S. Air…
ČAVČAVADZE, Tinatin Aleksandrovna. Tbilisi 29.4.1928 — 1997. Georgian Indo-Iranian scholar. Daughter of an official, graduated 1949 from Oriental Faculty of Tbilisi University. Kand. filol. nauk 1954, dr. filol. nauk 1987. In 1956-58 taught at Tbilisi University, 1957-60 naučnyj sotrudnik at Linguistic Inst. (Inst. Jazykoznanija) and from 1960 at Oriental Institute…
CARDONA, Giorgio Raimondo. Rome 7.1.1943 — Rome 14.8.1988. Italian Linguist. Professor in Rome. Son of Giacinto Cardona. Studied at La Sapienza in Rome. From 1968 Assistant and 1980-88 ord. Professor of Linguistics at La Sapienza. A specialist of sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics. Publications: “Per una etimologia di Toc. A. pātsānk, B. patstsāṅk ‘finestra’”,…
BUCCA, Salvador (Salvatore Bucca). Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto near Messina in Sicily 30.10.1920 — Buenos Aires 30.12.2005. Argentinian (Italian-born) Linguist interested in the Upanishads. Born in Sicilly, studied at Pisa (graduated in classics 1944), then collaborator in the Lexicon Etruscum in Florence, moved to Argentina in 1948. Taught classics and Sanskrit…
BERGER, Hermann. Bad Kötzting, Bayerischer Wald 17.10.1926 — Heidelberg 31.1.2005. German Indologist. Professor in Heidelberg. After school military service ending as war prisoner. Released studies of Indology, IE linguistics ans Semitic at Munich 1948-53, 1953 Ph.D. there. His main teacher was H. Hoffmann, also K. Hoffmann, F. Sommer and A.…
APPEL, Karel. Paris 6.12.1857 — Warsaw 16.3.1930. Polish Linguist. Publications: ???. Sources: *Polish Wikipedia with photo (no longer found in 2024, the Dutch painter fills my Google search).
RIX, Helmut. Amberg 4.7.1926 — Colmar, Alsace 3.12.2004. German Linguist (IE and Italic). Son of a teacher, Hans Rix and his wife Susanne. In WW II served in navy, then studies of IE, classics and history at Würzburg and Heidelberg. Ph.D. 1950 Heidelberg. In 1951-55 Assistant of Krahe at Tübingen,…
MITTELBERGER, Hermann. Klagenfurt 25.1.1935 — Treibach-Althofen, Kärnten 13.5.2004. Austrian IE Scholar. Professor in Graz. School in Klagenfurt, from 1953 studies of classics, IE and Sanskrit at Vienna. Ph.D. 1962 Vienna. In 1957-62 Assistant of Indology at Vienna, then briefly at Utrecht. From 1964 Assistant, from 1969 also PD at Würzburg.…
MAKAEV, Ènver Ahmedovič. Moscow 28.5.1916 — Moscow 31.3.2004. Russian IE and Germanic Linguist. Graduated from German department at Moscow 1937, taught there 1938-60. Kand. filol. nauk 1940. Dr. filol. nauk 1964 (diss. on German). In 1954-76 worked in German section of Linguistic Institute of Soviet Academy. Professor 1971. Publications: Edited:…