PETERSON, Mihail Nikolaevič. Kerensk (now Vadinsk, Penzenskoj obl.) 22.9.(4.10.)1885 — Moscow 22.11.1962. Russian IE Linguist. Professor in Moscow. Son of Nikolaj Pavlovič Peterson (1844–1919), a teacher, educated in Ašhabad and Vernyj (Alma Ata). Studies at Moscow under Fortunate et al., graduated 1913. From 1916 Docent and from 1919 (or 1925?)…
PETERSEN, Walter. 1881 — 3.10.1939 (when 58). U.S. IE and Classical Scholar. Professor in Gainesville and Chicago. Son of German (?) immigrants, studies in Germany. A.M. Ph.D. Yale. In 1908/18 Professor of Greek and Latin at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. From 19?? Assistant Professor of Ancient Languages (teaching Latin…
PERSSON, Per. Västra Vingåker, Södermanland 31.12.1857 — Uppsala 27.6.1929. Swedish Classical and IE Linguist. Professor in Uppsala. Son of farmer Per Persson and Brita Persdotter. Studies at Uppsala, M.A. 1878, Lic.phil. 1883. Ph.D. and Docent of Classics 1886. From 1895 Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Uppsala (deputy already…
PEILE, John. Whitehaven, Cumberland 24.4.1838 — Cambridge 9.10.1910. British Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Son of geologist Williamson Peile (1810–1843), F.G.S., and Elizabeth Hodgson (1815–1850), lost his father in the age of five. Educated at Repton School, at St.Bees School, and from 1856 studied at Christ’s College, Cambridge. B.A. 1860, M.A.…
PEDERSEN, Holger. Gjelballe near Lunderskov, Kolding prov. 7.4.1867 — Hellerup near Copenhagen 25.10.1953. Danish Linguist. Professor in Copenhagen. Born in a teacher family in Jutland, son of school-teacher Christen Pedersen (1822–1877) and Dorthe Lauridsen (1826–1920). After school in Ribe he studied from 1885at Copenhagen classical philology, Danish and linguistics under…
PAUL, Otto. Berlin 4.5.1888 — Hungen, Kr. Giessen 6.10.1944. German Germanist and Iranian Scholar. A Nazi. Started studies late (1915) at Berlin concentrating on German and Linguistics, from 1924 at Munich (Ph.D. 1927), now also Aryan Philology, under Geiger, then also Wüst. Habilitation 1938 Munich. After a break with Himmler…
PAUL, Hermann Otto Theodor. Salbke bei Magdeburg 7.8.1846 — Munich 29.12.1921. German General, IE, and Germanic Linguist, one of the leading Neogrammarians. Professor in Freiburg and Munich. Son of master mason Peter Jakob Paul. After gymnasium in Magdeburgfrom 1866 studies at Berlin (Steinthal) and Leipzig (Zarncke, Curtius & Leskien), where…
PAHALINA, Tat’jana Nikolaevna. Leningrad 8.10.1928 — Moscow 30.10.1995. Russian Iranian Scholar, specialist of Pamir Languages. Daughter of an official. Graduated 1951 from Leningrad Oriental Faculty. Kand. filol. nauk 1955, Dr. filol. nauk 1983, Professor 1991. From 1954 naučnyj sotrudnik at Linguistic Institute of Academy of Science in Leningrad, 1965 staršij…
VOGT, Hans Kamstrup. Fredrikstad, Østfold, Norway 1.6.1903 — Oslo 25.9.1986. Norwegian Linguist. Professor in Oslo. Son of Nils Anton Vogt, a medical officer, and Jenny Sofie Kamstrup. Educated at Lycée Corneille in Rouen, studies at the universities of Paris and Oslo. Graduated in classics at Oslo in 1928, also studied…
VERNER, Karl Adolph (born K. A. Werner). Aarhus 7.3.1846 — Copenhagen 5.11.1896. Danish Linguist and Phonetician. Professor in Copenhagen. Son of a German artisan and his Danish wife. Studied Classics, Germanic and Slavic languagesat Copenhagen, also Sanskrit under Westergaard. Mag. 1873. Further studies at St.Petersburg and Moscow in 1871-75. Librarian…