BORECKÝ, Jaromír. Buddies (now České Budějovice) 6.8.1869 — Prague 8.5.1951. Czech Poet, Translator and Librarian, listed as an Oriental scholar by Heyne and apparently knew some Sanskrit and certainly Persian. Son of Jan Ludvik Borecký (1827–1912) and Anna Isáková. He is said (by Bečka) to have been a student of…
BORÉ, Eugène. Angers (Maine-et-Loire) 15.8.1809 — Paris 3.5.1878. French Orientalist, especially Armenian Scholar. Son of a lawyer who died in 1812, in 1828 also lost his mother. Educated in Angers and Paris (Collège Stanislas), then studied languages: Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Persian, Hebrew, Syriac and in 1833 Sanskrit. In 1833-34 Professor…
BOPP, Franz. Mainz 14.9.1791 — Berlin 23.10.1867. German Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Berlin. Born in a Roman Catholic family, son of a civil servant, Andreas Bopp (1765?–1840), and Regina Linck (d. 1820). Grew up in Aschaffenburg, where he had K. Windischmann as his teacher at the local Gymnasium, then…
BONN, Gisela (nom-de-plume of Gisela Döhrn). Elberfeld near Wuppertal 22.9.1909 — Stuttgart 11.10.1996. German Journalist. Daughter of Heinz Döhrn, a teacher. From 1929 studied Musicology, Theatre, art history, Germanistics and French at Köln, Rostock and Vienna. Ph.D. 1936 Vienna (diss. on Brahms). In 1936 married the journalist Hermann Pörzgen (1905–1976),…
BONER, Alice. Legnano, Lombardy 22.7.1889 — Zürich 13.4.1981. Swiss Artist (Sculptor) and Art Historian of India. Born in Italy of Swiss-English parents, engineer Georg Boner (1862–1947) and Alice Kathrine Brown. School in Italy, the family moved back to Switzerland only in 1911. Received training in sculpture and painting in Basel,…
BONARDI, Mario. Rome 29.5.1914 — 14.6.1954. Italian Indologist (Buddhist scholar). Studied in Rome and graduated as a teacher of Greek and Latin, at the same time studied Sanskrit and Tibetan under Formichi and Tucci. Specially interested in Tantric Buddhism. In 19?? Ph.D. with an unpublished dissertation on the Hevajrapradīpa. Worked…
BOMPAS, Cecil Henry. London 31.5.1868 — Broughton, Hampshire 22.1.1956. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry Mason Bompas (barrister and judge, 1836–1909) and Rachel Henrietta Wise (d. 1923). Educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge. Joined I.C.S. in 1887, arrived in India 1889. Served as Assistant Magistrate and Collector…
BOLLING, George Melville. Baltimore 13.4.1871 — Princeton, NJ 1.6.1963 (when 92). U.S. Greek Scholar and Indologist. Professor of Classical Philology in Columbus. Son of William Nicholls Bolling (1830–1898) and Hannah Lamb Bonham (1840–1888). Educated at Loyola College in Baltimore (A.B. 1891), and at Johns Hopkins (now also took Sanskrit under…
BOLLING, Frederik Andersen (Friederic Andresen B.). Drangedal, Telemark 1640? — 1685. Norwegian Traveller in India. Born in Norway, son of Anders B. Student in Copenhagen, went to Amsterdam and became enlisted to the East Indies in 1669. Served in Batavia and China, returned in 1673 and was taken prisoner by…
BOLLER, Johann Anton. Krems an der Donau 2.1.1811 — Vienna 19.1.1869. Austrian Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Vienna. Born as illegitimate child of Joseph Boller, a brewer and distiller, and maid Maria Anna Amsiess, but in 1817 his parents got finally married. School in Krems. Studied from 1831 at Vienna…