BUGGE, Elseus Sophus. Larvik 5.1.1833 — Tønset 8.7.1907. Norwegian Linguist, mainly Scandinavian, but also IE, Anatolian and Etruscan Scholar. Professor in Christiania (Oslo). Son of Alexander Bugge (1790–1854), a merchant and former lieutenant, and Maren Kirstine Sartz (1799–1836). After school in Larvik he started 1848 studies of classical philology at…
BÜHLER, Johann Georg. Borstel bei Nienburg (Hannover) 19.7.1837 — Bodensee 8.4.1898. German Indologist in India (1863-80) and Austria. Professor in Vienna. Son of Rev. Johann Georg Bühler (1802–1891) and Charlotte Elisabeth Hagemann. Educated in Hannover, where he had among his teachers the philologists Ahrens and Kühner. In 1855 he came…
BÜCHLER, Pál. Bácstóváros (Tovariševo in Serbian Vojvodina) 25.1.1877 — Târgu Mureş 7.7.1946. Hungarian (of Transylvania) Philologist and Translator interested in Sanskrit. Ph.D. 1907 Budapest (diss. on Homer). In 1916/18 Oberlehrer in Marosvásárhely (now Târgu-Mureş) in Transylvania, in 1926/30 Professor at Commercial School in Târgu-Mureş, now in Romania. He translated parts…
BUDMANI, Petar (Pero). Ragusa in Austrian Empire (now Dubrovnik) 27.10.1835 — Castelferretti near Ancona 27.12.1914. Croatian Serb, Slavic Linguist. Son of sea captain Vlad B. and Ana-Marija Stula, educated in Dubrovnik. From 1853 studied medicine, law and Sanskrit and several other subjects at Vienna University (without degree). In 1861 married…
BROWN, William Norman. Baltimore, Md. 24.6.1892 — West Chester PA. 22.4.1975. U.S. Indologist. Son of —> G. W. Brown (1870–1932), through his mother (Virginia Archer, née Clark) half-brother of —> J. C. Archer. At the age of eight he went to Central India with his missionary parents and returned five…
BROWN, Charles Philip. Calcutta, India 10.11.1798 — London 12.12.1884. British Civil Servant in India (1817-55) and Indologist, specialist of Telugu language. Son of Rev. David Brown (1763–1812), the provost of Calcutta College, and Frances Cowley. Educated by his father in India, after his death came to England in 1812. After…
BROUGH, John. Dundee 31.8.1917 — Bishop’s Stortford, near Cambridge 9.1. 1984. British (Scottish) Indologist. Professor in London and Cambridge. Son of Charles and Elizabeth Brough. After Dundee High School he studied classical philology at Edinburgh (M.A. 1939), also Sanskrit under A. B. Keith. During the war he continued his classical,…
BROCKHAUS, Hermann. Amsterdam 28.1.1806 — Leipzig 5.1.1877. German Indologist and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Leipzig. Born in Amsterdam in a German family, son of the famous publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772–1823) and Sophie Wilhelmine Arnoldine Beurhaus (d. 1809). In 1810 the family returned to Germany after mother’s death. School in…
BRIGGS, George Weston. North Branch, Michigan 21.9.1874 — Madison, NJ 18.4.1966. U.S. Missionary and Indologist. Son of David C. Briggs and Emily E. Weston. Educated at Northwestern University (B.S. 1902, M.S. 1905). Ordained as priest in 1904. Methodist missionary in India 1903-08, 1909-12, and 1915-25. Professor of English Literature at…
BRANDES, Carl Edvard Cohen. Copenhagen 21.10.1847 — Copenhagen 20.12.1931. Danish Journalist and Politician, started his career as an Indologist. Son of a Herman Brandes (1816-1904), a wholesale dealer, and Emilie Bendix (1818-98), brother of author and critic Georg Brandes (1842-1927). School at Copenhagen, matriculated 1865. Studied at Copenhagen University many…