ALEKSANDROV, F. G. 18?? — 19??. Russian (Ukrainian?) Indologist or IE Scholar? He worked at Odessa University, but in 1922 was exiled as a member of KD Party and disappears. Publications: In Russian: “K skloneniju indoevropejskih osnov na -e/o v sanskritskom narečii drevneindijskogo”, Učenye zapiski vysšej školy g. Odessy 2…
ALEKSANDROV, Aleksandr Ivanovič (Anastasij). Baiterjakovo, gub. Kazan 16/28.4.1861 — Petrograd 23.6.1918. Russian Slavist and IE Scholar. Son of a priest. School in Kazan, from 1879 studies at Kazan (under Baudouin de Courtenay and Kruševskij, kand. 1883), then at Doormat (Tartu). PD 1886 Tartu, soon (1886) Professor of Comparative Linguistics and Sanskrit…
AICHELE, Walter Gustav Paul. Höhefeld, Wertheim 27.1.1889 — Hamburg 1.5.1971. German Indonesian and Gipsy Scholar. Ph.D. 1915 Heidelberg, later Indonesian studies under Otto Dempwolff at Hamburg. PD 1946 Hamburg, from 1949-54 apl. Professor and from 1969 ord. of Indonesian languages there. Publications: With M. Block: Zigeunermärchen. 19+344 p. Die Märchen…
AHVLEDIANI, Georgij Saridanovič. Leykumi, Kutaisskij rajon 1.(13.)4.1887 — Tbilisi 9.7.1973. Georgian Indo-Iranian Scholar and Linguist. Son of a farm owner. Graduated 1914 from Harkov University (Kharkiv). Taught Linguistics at Tbilisi University from 1918, Professor from 1932. Corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Science 1939, full member of the Georgian…
AGRELL, Per Sigurd. Rämmen, Värmland 16.1.1881 — Lund 19.4.1937. Swedish Slavist and IE Linguist, Runic Scholar, Translator and Poet. Professor in Lund. Son of factory owner Frans Vilhelm Agrell and Ida Vendela Örtenholm. School in Stockholm. Studies from 1899 at Uppsala: fil.kand. & fil.lic. 1907 there, Ph.D. 1909 Lund. PD…
ABEGG, Emil. Küsnacht near Zürich 11.1.1885 — Zürich 12.2.1962. Swiss Indologist. Professor in Zürich. Son of merchant Emil Abegg (d. 1894) and Fanny Guggenbühl, school and teacher’s college in Küsnacht. Learned Sanskrit first by himself, then from 1904 studied Germanistics, psychology, Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit (under Kaegi) at Zürich University.…
AALTO, Pentti. Pori 22.7.1917 — Helsinki 30.11.1998. Finnish Classical Scholar, Linguist, Altaist and Indologist. Son of shop assistant Martti Johannes Aalto and Martta Elisabeth Lindroos. Matriculation from Porin lyseo in 1935, then studies of comparative, oriental and classical philology at Helsinki University: M.A. 1939, Lic. Phil. 1949, Ph.D. 1949. During…