GARIBAY KINTANA, Angel María

GARIBAY KINTANA, Angel María. Toluca, México 18.6.1892 — Ciudad de México 19.10.1967. Mexican Linguist (Nahuatl Scholar) also interested in Sanskrit. Educated in Santa Fe and Ciudad de México. Librarian and student at Seminario Concilias de México, ordained as priest in 1917. Worked as a minister in Jilotepec, México, learned there…

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GALLÉE, Johan Hendrik

GALLÉE, Johan Hendrik. Vorden, Bronckhorst 9.9.1847 — Utrecht 3.2.1908. Dutch Linguist. Professor of IE Philology at Utrecht. Son of mayor Johannes Hermannus G. and Neeltje van Olst. After school in Zutphen studied from 1866 at Leiden, among other things also Sanskrit under Kern. Ph.D. (Litt. Hum. Dr.) there 1873 with…

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FUMI, Fausto Gherardo

FUMI, Fausto Gherardo. Montepulciano (Toscana) 17.10.1840 — Genoa 1915. Italian Linguist interested in Sanskrit Literature. Studies at Pisa (under Bardelli), Florence and Leipzig. First teacher in Liceo di Reggio-Calabria, then taught at University of Palermo in 1887-90 and from 1890 at Genoa, where he became ord. Professor of “storia comparata…

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FRISK, Hjalmar

FRISK, Jöns Ivan Hjalmar. Göteborg 4.8.1900 — Göteborg 1.8.1984. Swedish Linguist and Classical scholar. Professor in Gothenburg. Son of Nils Frisk, a civil servant (distrikts­föreståndaren). Matriculated from Gothenburg in 1918, then studied at the local uni­ver­sity (Högskola). Fil. mag. 1921, fil.lic. 1924, thesis 1927, Ph.D. 1928. From 1927 PD of Greek…

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FREI, Henri

FREI, Henri. Baar, Zug 5.6.1899 — Hedingen, Canton Zürich 14.11.1980. Swiss Linguist. Professor in Geneva. Son of Gustav Adolf Frei, an industrialist, and Ida Dändliker. Studies of linguistics at Geneva and Paris (É.L.O.V.) until 1926 (including New Indo-Aryan and Japanese). Ph.D. 1929 Geneva (under Bally). In 1933-34 Professor at National…

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FRAENKEL, Ernst

FRAENKEL, Ernst Eduard Samuel. Berlin 16.10.1881 — Hamburg 2.10.1957. German IE, Greek, and Balto-Slavic Linguist. Professor in Kiel and Hamburg. Son of Albert Fr. (1848–1916), a specialist of internal medicine in Berlin, and Gertrud Strassmann. From 1899 studies of Sanskrit, classics and Indo-European at Bonn and Berlin (W. Schulze). Ph.D.…

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FRACHTENBERG, Leo J.

FRACHTENBERG, Leo Joachim. Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi in Ukraina) 24.2.1883 — Waterloo, Iowa 26.11.1930. U.S. (Austrian-born) Linguist and Anthropologist. Son of Abraham Fr. and Jeanette Rottenstreich, a Jewish family. Gymnasium in Przemyśl (now in Poland), in 1904 immigrated to the U.S.A. Studies at Cornell, then at Columbia University (M.A. 1906, Ph.D.…

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FOWLER, Murray

FOWLER, Alexander Murray. Claremont, Wimberg dt., Cape of Good Hope, South Africa 23.3.1905 — Madison, Wisc. 12.2.1999. U.S. Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Madison. Son of Alexander Duguid F. (1864–1911) and Catherine Milne Walker (1865–1916). Studies at University of Minnesota (A.B. 1927) and University of Oregon (A.B. 1929). In 1929-30…

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FORTUNATOV, Filip Fedorovič

FORTUNATOV, Filipp Fëdorovič. Vologda 14(2).1.1848 — Kosalma near Petrozavodsk 3.10.(20.9.)1914. Russian Indologist and Linguist. Son of Fëdor Nikolaevič F., a teacher, and Julija Aleksandrovna Monakova (d. 1857). Studies at Moscow under Petrov and others, graduated in 1868. Then further studies in 1872-73 at Tübingen (Roth), Berlin (Weber), Leipzig (Curtius, Leskien)…

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FOHALLE, René

FOHALLE, René François Joseph. Verviers near Liège 12.5.1899 — 1984. Belgian Linguist. Professor in Liège. Obtained classical education at Athénée royal de Verviers in 1910-17, then studies of classical philology, linguistics and Indology at Liège in 1919-22 and 1924-26, in 1922-24 Sanskrit and linguistics in Paris (Meillet, Benveniste). Doctor en…

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