RUDNICKI, Mikołaj. Sokołow Podlaski, Masovia 6.12.1881 — Puszczykowo near Poznań 28.6.1978. Polish Linguist. Son of Szymon Rudnicki and Zofia Bałkowa. Studies at Cracow (under Rozwadowski). PD 1911 Cracow. From 1919 Professor of IE Linguistics at new Poznań University (ord. 1921), taught there until retired (with the interruption caused by the…
RUDIN, Semën Gesselevič. Leningrad 21.7.1929 — Leningrad 22.8.1973. Russian Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Son of a physician. In 1947-52 studied Indology in Leningrad. From 1955 until his death taught Indology at Leningrad. In 1966 one year in India studying i.al. the Nilghiri languages (Toda, Kota, Kurumba). Kand. filol. nauk 1968 Leningrad.…
RECZEK, Józef. Szczepanów, Lesser Poland 16.2.1936 — Ibid. 13.2.1988. Polish Indo-European, Slavonic and Iranian Linguist. Son of Alojzy Recheck and Anna Kargol. Studies at Cracow in 1953-59 (i.al. under Pobożniak and T. Milewski). Ph.D. 1967 (diss. on Slavonic), from 1986 taught at Cracow University as Docent. Publications: Hab.diss. Najstarsze slowiańsko–irańskie stosunki językowe.…
RANKE, Kurt. Blankenburg, Harz 14.4.1908 — Stadensen bei Uelzen 6.6.1985. German Germanist and Folklore Scholar interested in IE Linguistics. Professor in Kiel and Göttingen. Son of post inspector Karl Ranke and Ida Ahrens, grew up in Essen. In 1927-31 studies of History, Germanistic and Church History at Bonn, Munich and…
QUIN, Ernest Gordon. Dublin 9.6.1910 — 29.8.1986. Irish Linguist also familiar with Sanskrit. Son of Ernest Samuel Quin, From 1934 Lecturer in Sanskrit at Trinity College, Dublin. Publications: Wrote on Old Irish language and lexicography, e.g. Old-Irish Workbook. 163 p. Dublin 1975. Sources: *www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=1601, apparently full life, but in Irish;…
PUTJATA, Aleksej Dmitrievič. Smolensk gub. 13.1.1855 — Melbourne 16.12.1894. Russian Diplomat and former Student of Indology. Son of Dmitrij Aleksandrovič P. After studies worked in Ministry of Education and in 1885 entered diplomatic career as secretary at the Russian embassy in Bucharest, then for a while in Odessa. In 1893 sent…
PITTMAN, Richard Saunders (Dick). Streator, Ill. 19.2.1915 — Waxhaw, Union, NC 21.8.1998. U.S. Linguist. Son of glass manufacturer Edwin John Pittman and Louise Shepard. Graduated 1936 from Asbury College. In 1940-50 lived in Tetelcingo, Mexico, doing linguistic fieldwork, and continued his studies in the U.S.A., first at University of Michigan,…
PHILIPPI, Friedrich Wilhelm Martin (Fritz). Dorpat (Tartu) 3.11.1843 — Rostock 6.3.1905. German (born in Estonia) Semitic Scholar. Professor in Rostock. Son of Friedrich Adolf Philippi (1809–1882), who was later Professor of Theology at Rostock. After school in Dorpat, from 1863 studies of theology at Rostock, Berlin and Leipzig. Ph.D. 1866…
PERRIN, Marshall Livingston. Wellesley Hills (now Frantville) county Norfolk, Mass. 31.7.1855 — Obod. 2.12.1935. U.S. Linguist. Professor in Boston. Son of Noah Perrin and Philenia Winship Stone. Educated at Harvard (A.B. 1874, A.M. 1876), post-graduate studies 1877-80 at Harvard, 1883-88 in Germany, mostly at Göttingen, where Ph.D. 1889. In 1874…
PENZL, Herbert. Neufelden, Oberösterreich 2.9.1910 — Oakland 1.9.1995. Austrian Linguist in the U.S.A., naturalised 1944. Professor in Berkeley. Born into an academic family. After gymnasium in Ottakring (Vienna) studied English philology at Vienna. With a scholarship (recommended by S. Freud) went to the U.S.A. and was in 1932-34 Editorial Assistant…