BROWN, William Norman. Baltimore, Md. 24.6.1892 — West Chester PA. 22.4.1975. U.S. Indologist. Son of the missionary scholar —> G. W. Brown (1870–1932), through his mother (Virginia Archer, née Clark. 1855–1954) half-brother of —> J. C. Archer (1881–1957). At the age of eight he went to Central India with his…
BROWN, George William. Hartford co., Maryland 25.10.1870 — West Hartford, CT (?) 4.12.1932. U.S. Missionary and Indologist. Son of a farmer in Hartford co., Maryland. Studies at Hiram College in Ohio, A.B. 1897, M.A. 1898. In 1897-98 taught at Central Christian College in Albany, Missouri, 1898-1900 Superintendent od Public Schools…
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,…
BRIGGS, Henry George. Bombay 20.10.1824 — Bombay 4.7.1872. British Merchant, Traveller, and Orientalist. Son of Henry Briggs. In 1843 travelled in South Africa, in 1845 in China. In 1846 settled at the office of Briggs & Co. in Bombay. For a while lived in Karachi (1854/55), then from 1856 Assistant…
BRIGGS, George Weston. North Branch, co. Lapeer, Michigan 21.9.1874 — Madison, NJ 18.4.1966. U.S. Missionary and Indologist. Son of David C. Briggs (1841–1917) and Emily Electa 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…
BRIESS, Erwin Eduard. Olmütz (Olomouc), Moravia 9.5.1886 — 1946. Austrian (Moravian) Journalist and former Student of Indology in Switzerland. Swiss citizen. Grew up in Zürich, where family moved when he was two years old. Studies of Oriental Philology at Vienna, Ph.D. 1912. Returned to Zürich in 1913 and was working…
BREWSTER, Earl Henry. Chagris Falls, Ohio 21.9.1878 — Almora, Uttarkhand 19.9.1957. U.S. Artist (Painter) and Author. Educated in Cleveland and N.Y. Schools of Art. Worked as painter in New York, had exhibitions. In 1910 married Achsah Leona Barlow (an artist, 1879–1945, one daughter), now began long time of nomadic life…
BRÉAL, Michel-Jules-Alfred (born Michael Bréal). Landau (Pfalz) 26.3.1832 — Paris 25.11.1915. French IE scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of Auguste Bréal (1789–1839), a French-Jewish lawyer, and Caroline Worms (1803–1876). Educated in Wissembourg, Metz and Paris (Lycée Louis-le-Grand), then 1852-55 at École normale supérieure. Teacher in Strasbourg (1855) and Paris (Louis-le-Grand,…
BRADKE, Peter von. St.Petersburg 27.6.1853 — Giessen 7.3.1897. German (Livonian) Indologist. Son of Georg Friedrich von Bradke (1796–1862), wirkl. Geheimrat and senator in St. Petersburg, of a German family of Livonian nobility, and Luise Lucie von Saß (1827–1861). After school in Dorpat (Tartu) studies of classical, German and comparative philology…