CURIEL, Raoul. Cairo, Egypt 23.6.1913 — Paris 23.2.2000. French (citizen 1947) Indologist, Iranian Scholar, Numismatist and Archaeologist. Son of Daniel Nessim Curiel (d. 1948), and his wife Zephira, a wealthy banker, of a Francophone Sephardic Jewish family with Italian background. His brother was the Egyptian communist active Henri Curiel (1914–1978).…
CROFTON, Henry Thomas. Preston, Lancashire 23.7.1848 — Berkshire 17.4.1928. British Gypsy Scholar. Born of an Anglo-Irish family, son of General John Ffolliott Crofton (1800–1885) and Anne Agnes Addison. Educated at Cheltenham College. Solicitor in Manchester. President of Gypsy Lore Society in 1908-09. Married 1871 Martha Pilling McKeand (d. 1931), one son…
COSTA, Traian. 1926 — 1995. Romanian Linguist and Classical Scholar. Student of Bănăţeanu, taught Sanskrit at the Bucharest University after his death (1963). Professor. Married Emilia, Ioana Costa (b. 1959), Professor of Classical Philology at Bucharest, is their daughter. Publications: Wrote on Greek and Latin literature, translated classics. – Review…
BRÜCKE, Ernst Wilhelm (von). Berlin 6.7.1819 — Vienna 7.1.1892. German Physician and Physiologist in Austria, also interested in Phonetics. Professor in Vienna. Son of Johann Gottfried Brücke (1796–1873), a history painter, and Christine Müller (d. 1822). Gymnasium in Stralsund. Studied medicine at Berlin and Heidelberg, Dr.med. 1842 Berlin. PD 1844…
COHN-WIENER, Ernst (until 1907 Ernst Cohn). Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk in Russia) 25.12.1882 — New York 13.4.1941. German Historian of Asian Art. Son of Alfred Cohn and Helene Wiener. Matriculated 1902 from Bromberg (Bydgoszcz in Poland), then studies of art history at Berlin and Heidelberg, where Ph.D. 1907. From 1908…
CANALEJAS y Casas, Francisco de Paula. Lucena, prov. Córdoba 2.4.1834 — Madrid 4.5.1883. Spanish Scholar of Literature interested in Indo-European. Son of José de Canalejas (1800–1877). Studies at Madrid, graduated in humanities 1856, in law 1857, Ph.D. 1858. In 1860-62 Professor of Literature at Valladolid, then eo. Professor at Madrid.…
BOUQUET, Alan Coates. Forest Hill, London 24.5.1884 — Cambridge 4.3.1976. Rev. British Scholar of Religion. Son of Robert Coates Bouquet (1842–1928), Registrar to the Art Union of London, of Huguenot descent, and Elizabeth Stow. After St.Dunstan’s College (London) and London University College studies at Cambridge (Trinity College): B.A. 1905, M.A. 1910,…
BOR, Norman Loftus. Tramore, County Waterford 2.5.1893 — London 22.12.1972. Irish Botanist. Son of Edward Norman Cavendish Bor (1861–1931) and Mabel Thornton. Educated in Kilkenny and Dublin, studied medicine at Trinity College, but in 1914 joined the army. War service in Greece and Palestine, wounded 1916. B.A. 1921 and M.A.…
BATAILLARD, Paul Théodore. Paris 23.3.1816 — Paris 1.3.1894. French Archivist and Gypsy Scholar. Son of Pierre Charles Bataillard (d. 1840) and Agathe Pierrette Vasse, a royalist Catholic family (but the son developed into a liberal and democrat). School in Troyes, studied first law in Paris, soon religion, philosophy and politics…
ASTI VERA, Armando. Buenos Aires 25.6.1914 — Buenos Aires 3.2.1972. Argentinian scholar of Religion. Ph.D. 1939 Buenos Aires, in philosophy, then taught at several Argentinian universities. Founder (in the late 1960s) and director of the Centro de Estudios de Religiones y Filosofías del Oriente in the Departemento de Filosofía y…