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…
BRACHET, Benjamin, as the author of a Vedic work (Prières antèhistoriques. Œuvres de Koutsa et Hirayastoupa. P. 1870) is sometimes called, seems to be mistaken. See under —> Benjamin GACHET.
BOWDEN, Ernest Monnington. Rochford, Herefordshire bapt. 17.7.1859 — Ramsgate, Kent 3.4.1904. British Author and Inventor (Wikipedia calls him Irishman, which seems unlikely, his father was born in London). The youngest child of Rev. Ellis Treacher Bowden (1819–1896) and Maria Jones (d. 1875). After Malvern College studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge…
BOURQUIN, Auguste Ali. Sonvilier, canton Bern 8.4.1848 — Denver 14.1.1928. Swiss Protestant Priest, Missionary and Indologist. Son of Louis Alcide Bourquin and Zelie Chopard. In 1882 he was member of Scottish Mission at General Assembly Institution in Bombay, but returned soon after that to Europe after having spent eleven years…
BOULNOIS, Jean Raymond Paul. Berville-en-Caux, Normandy 19.3.1904 — Philippeville (now Skikda), Algeria 1956. French Physician interested in India. Son of Paul Boulnois (1868–1949) and Louise Léonie Ehrer (1872–1962), both teachers. Dr.Med. 1928 Bordeaux. First served as colonial physician in Côte d’Ivoire, in 1932-35 at French settlements in Tamilnadu and Bengal,…
BOSCH, Frederik (Fritz) David Kan. Potchefstroom, Transvaal 17.6.1887 — Leiden 20.7.1968. Dutch Indologist and Indonesian Scholar. Professor in Leiden. Born in South Africa, son of Hendrik Bosch (1859–1902) and Judith Kan (1862–1889), after his mother’s death came to live with his two aunts in Amsterdam and went to school there.…
BOISSEVAIN, Jan Wilhelm. Amsterdam 27.9.1874 — Velp, Rheden, Gelderland 24.3.1959. Dutch Indologist and Theosophist. Son of Gideon Maria Boissevain (1837–1925) and Louise Caroline toe Laer. Studied first law, then Indology, etc. Ph.D. 1905 Leiden (under Speyer). Gymnasium teacher of Dutch and History in Amsterdam. Publications: Diss. Het indische tooneelstuk Prabodhacandrodaya.…
BODDING, Paul Olaf. Gjøvik, Oppland 2.11.1865 — Odense, Denmark 25.9.1938. Rev. Norwegian Missionary and Munda Scholar in India, lived long time among the Santals. Son of a bookseller, Edvard Olsen Bodding (1825–1905), and Betzy Emilie Wennevold (1838–1889). After meeting —> L. O. Skrefsrud in his father’s shop he decided to…
BOCHINGER, Jean-Jacques (Johann Jacob B.). Strasbourg 28.11.1802 — Strasbourg 12.8.1831. French (Alsatian) Protestant Theologian. Of humble origin, son of Jean Bochinger (1758–1807), a weaver, and Christine Madeleine Lutz (1778–1833). Studies at Protestant Seminary and Theological Faculty of Strasbourg, then at Heidelberg and Göttingen. For a while, 1824-26, private tutor in…