BORK, Ferdinand A. Forsthaus bei Königsbruch, Kr. Tuchel, Westpreussen (now in Poland) 26.11.1871 — Benhausen, Paderborn 28.2.1962. German Scholar of Ancient Near East, also interested in Indo-Iranian. Parents forester Ferdinand Bork and Ottilie Zimmermann. Gymnasium in Marienburg (West Prussia), matriculated 1892. Studies of geography and languages at Königsberg, until 1896.…
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, and Regina Lincker. Grew up in Aschaffenburg, where he had K. Windischmann as his teacher at the local Gymnasium, then at the short-lived…
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 Ph.D. with an unpublished dissertation on the Hevajrapradīpa.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…
BOLLING, George Melville. Baltimore 13.4.1871 — Princeton, NJ 1.6.1963. U.S. Greek Scholar and Indologist. Professor of Classical Philology in Columbus. Son of William Nicholls B. and Hannah Lamb Bonham. Educated at Loyola College in Baltimore (A.B. 1891), and at Johns Hopkins (now also Sanskrit under Bloomfield), where Ph.D. 1896. In…
BOLLENSEN, Friedrich. Rossdorf, Kreis Göttingen 12.1.1809 — Wiesbaden 29.2.1896. German Indologist in Russia. Son of a farmer, attended the Gymnasium in Göttingen. Then studied theology at Göttingen, where Ewald prompted him to take Oriental languages. Further details of his study time unknown, Ph.D. 1830 there (not in Indology). He was…
BOGORODICKIJ, Vasilij Alekseevič. Carevokokšajsk (now Joškar-Ola) 7(19).4.1857 — Kazan 23.12.1941. Russian IE and Slavic Linguist. Professor in Kazan. School at Carevokokšajsk and Kazan. Studies at Kazan under Baudouin de Courtenay et al. Kand. 1880. PD 1881 Kazan, for comparative linguistics. Mag. 1884, now Docent of Comparative Grammar of IE Languages…
BÖHTLINGK, Otto Nikolaus von (Russian Otto Nikolaevič Betlingk). St.Petersburg 11.6.(30.5.)1815 — Leipzig 1.4.1904. Russian (German) Indologist. Born in St.Petersburg as a Dutch citizen in a family (father Nikolaus Dietrich B., 1773–1839, a merchant), which originally came from Lübeck, his mother, Maria Wilhelmina Strahlboin (died soon after his birth), was a…
BOEHLING, Georg. Rodenberg, Kreis Rinteln 28.10.1854 — Hannover 3.6.1912. German Teacher and former Student of IE Linguistics. Studies at Göttingen, Berlin, Königsberg and Marburg. Ph.D. 1882 Marburg. Then worked as teacher at St.Petersburg University, later at Technische Hochschule Hannover. Is he the same G. B., who later wrote the book…
BLOOMFIELD, Maurice (born Blumenfeld). Bielitz, Austrian Silesia (now Bielsko-Biała in Poland) 23.2.1855 — San Francisco, CA 13.6.1928. U.S. (of German Jewish Origin) Indologist. Professor in Baltimore. Born in the then Austrian Silesia as the son of Solomon Bl. and Beatha Jaeger he moved in the age of four to the…
BLOMBERG, Carl Johan. Ljusdal, Hälsingland 29.5.1838 — Härnösand 15.3.1890. Swedish Schoolteacher interested in Sanskrit. Teacher in Härnösand. Son of post master Carl Ludvig Bl. and Mathilda Caspolin.. From 1855 studies at Uppsala, 1863 fil.kand., 1965 diss., 1866 Ph.D. In 1869-70 in France, Germany, and England. Began his career as a…