BERNET KEMPERS, August Johan. ’s-Hertogenbosch 7.10.1906 — Arnhem 2.5.1992. Dutch Art Historian and South-East Asian Scholar, long time in Indonesia. Son of Karel Jan Willem B. K., a notary, and Anna den Doesschate. After school in Middelburg studies of Indo-Iranian and Indonesian from 1926 at Leiden, Ph.D. 1933 (under Krom).…
BEREZOVSKIJ, Mihail Mihajlovič. 1848 — St.Petersburg 5.4.1912. Russian Traveller in Central Asia. Born in a noble family, school in St.Petersburg. As young man involved in radical politics, but escaped punishments. Studied zoology at St.Petersburg. From 1876 repeatedly with Potanin in Mongolia, starting as zoologist and botanist, but gradually becoming also interested…
BELLASIS, Augustus Fortunatus. India 1822 — Red Sea 1872. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Lt.-Col. Daniel Hutchins B. (1785–1836) and Mary Tadman. In Bombay Presidency from 1842, served as Collector and Magistrate of Hyderabad (Sind) and finally President of the Harbour and Pilot Board in Bombay. Remained in…
BELL, Harry Charles Purvis. India 21.9.1851 — Kandy 6.9.1937. British Archaeologist of Sri Lanka. Son of general H. W. B. Bell, from 1864 educated at Cheltenham College. From 1873 in Ceylon Civil service, served in various positions, finally district judge in Kegalla. In 1890-1912 Archaeological Commissioner for Ceylon with headquarters…
BEGLAR, Joseph David(itch) Melik. Dacca (Dhaka) 1840 — 24.4.1907. Armenian Archaeologist in India. Son of David Fridomitch B. of Chinsura, after Hooghly College trained at Calcutta Civil Engineering College as civil engineer. Assistant of Cunningham in the A.S.I. from 1871, before this worked at Public Works Dept. of Bengal as…
BARTUS, Theodor. Lassan near Greifswald 30.1.1858 — Berlin 28.1.1941. German, Assistant to the Berlin Ethnological Museum, participated in all four Prussian Turfan expeditions 1902–14. Son of a Pomeranian weaver, he had been sailor and a squatter in Australian outback, but returned to Germany and, after losing his money in a bankrupt…
BARTHOUX (Couyat-Barthoux), Jules Pierre (or Jules-J.). Étroussat (Aller) 22.7.1881 — 1965. French Geologist and Archaeologist. Born as Jules Couyat, son of Anne C. Worked as geologist in Morocco, Egypt and Arabia, collaborated with the French Archaeological Institute in Cairo. Dr.-ès-sciences 1922 Lille. He succeeded Foucher in 1923 in charge of the D.A.F.A. in…
BABINGTON, Benjamin Guy. London 5.3.1794 — London 5/8.4.1865. British Physician interested in Tamil Language and Literature. Son of a London physician, William B. (of Irish origin), and Martha Elizabeth Hough. Educated at Charterhouse 1803-07. He served in the navy until 1810, got then an appointment in India and went there…
AYRTON, Edward Russell. Wuhu, China 17.12.1882 — Tissamaharama 18.5.1914. British Archaeologist in Sri Lanka. Son of William Scrope A., of China Consular Service, and Louisa McClatchie. Educated at St.Paul’s School in London. Archaeological training in Europe and Egypt (as Flinders Petrie’s Assistant 1902-04 at Abydos). In 1905-08 excavated in the…
ALLARD, Jean François. St.Tropez 8.3.1785 — Peshawar 23.1.1839. French General in North-West India. From 1803 in cavalry, served in Italy and was the aide-de-camp of marshal Brune. Like some other officers he turned after Waterloo to the East, visited first Iran, and continued then through Kandahar and Kabul to Lahore,…