KAMMENHUBER, Annelies. Hamburg 19.3.1922 — Munich 14.12.1995. German Linguist and Hittite Scholar. Professor in Munich. Daughter of Georg Kammenhuber, a master locksmith, and Maria Hawranek, a Roman Catholic family. Grew up in Hamburg. Studied at Hamburg English, Romance, Latin, Indology, IE linguistics and philosophy in 1940-50 (delayed by the war),…
HAURI, Christoph-Ernst. Binningen near Basel 17.10.1929 — 18.6.2005. Swiss Linguist. Son of a priest, gymnasium in Basel. Studies at Basel, Ph.D. 1960 there. From 1960 chargé de cours at Genève and Lausanne, in 1962-64 taught German at University of Texas in Houston, back in Switzerland from 1965 eo. Professor in…
EMENEAU, Murray Barnson. Lunenburg, Nova Scotia 28.2.1904 — Berkeley, CA 29.8.2005. Canadian Indologist and Anthropologist in the U.S.A. U.S. citizen 1941. Professor in Berkeley. Son of Archibald Emeneau (1871–1912) and Ada Helena Barnson (1875–1961). Father’s early death left the family in poor conditions, but a scholarship helped him to college.…
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).