GEIGER, Wilhelm Ludwig. Nürnberg 21.7.1856 — Neubiberg near Munich 2.9. 1943. German Iranian Scholar and Indologist. Professor in Erlangen and Munich. Husband of —> Magdalene Geiger. Son of Johannes Leonhard Geiger (1820–1894), a Lutheran minister, and Emma Paur (1832–1918). Studied classical philology and Oriental languages at Berlin, Bonn and Erlangen…
GEIGER, Bernhard. Bielitz-Biala in Austrian Silesia (now Polish Bielsko) 30.4.1881 — New York 5.7.1964. Austrian Indo-Iranian Scholar, later in the U.S.A. Professor in Vienna and New York. Son of Chiel Geiger, a Jewish tailor who moved in 1902 to the U.S.A. School and gymnasium in Biala. Studies of Semitics, Iranian…
GARREZ, Pierre-Gustave. Rome 20.4.1834 — Paris 3.12.1888. French Indologist. Born in Rome, where his architect father, Pierre Gustave Joseph Garrez, lived as a pensionnaire of French Academy, educated in Paris at Collège Henri IV and Collège Louis-le-Grand. Left soon juridical studies and joined the army as a voluntary in 1854.…
GAÁL, László. Karcag 22.1.1891 — Karcag 13.6.1964. Hungarian Classical and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Debrecen. Son of László Gal and Zuzsanna Borsos. After gymnasium in Karsag studies of classical and Oriental languages at Kolozsvár University (under Gy. Németh and J. Csengeri), Ph.D. there 1913. Originally he was mainly a classical…
FREJMAN, Aleksandr Arnol’dovič. Warsaw 10.(22.)8.1879 — Leningrad 19.1.1968. Russian Iranist, specialist of Middle Iranian. Professor in Leningrad. Son of an official. After gymnasium in Warsaw in 1889-99, studies of Indo-Iranian and Armenian at Oriental Faculty (under Salemann, Žukovskij, Ol’denburg, Ščerbackoj and Marr) and of linguistics (under Bulič and Baudouin de…
FRACHTENBERG, Leo Joachim. Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi in Ukraine) 24.2.1883 — Waterloo, Iowa 26.11.1930. U.S. (Austrian-born) Linguist and Anthropologist. Son of Abraham Frachtenberg and Jeanette Rottenstreich, a Jewish family. Gymnasium in Przemyśl (now in Poland), immediately after graduation in 1904 immigrated to the U.S.A. Studies at Cornell, then at Columbia University…
FICHTNER, Horst. Dresden 3.9.1893 — Berlin 12.5.1961. German Priest, Theologian, Physician and Student of History of Medicine, apparently without any linguistic knowledge. Dr. med. 1924 Leipzig. Ph.D. Dr.theol. Domprediger in Dresden (1936), from 1945 taught social ethics at Theological Faculty, Berlin. A Nazi. Publications: Diss. an excerpt of 16 p.…
EASTON, Morton William. Hartford, Conn. 18.8.1841 — Mount Gretna, Pa. 21.8.1917. U.S. Linguist. Professor in Philadelphia. Son of Oliver Hastings Easton and Emeline Maria Brace, a Puritan family. Educated at Hartford High School, studies at Yale (A.B. 1863). From 1867 studied medicine at Columbia University (Med.dr. 1866), then further studies…
DUNCKER, Max(imilian) Wolfgang. Berlin 15.12.1811 — Ansbach 21.7.1886. German Historian and Politician. Son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker (1781–1869), a bookseller and publisher, and Fanny Auguste Levy. After Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium studies at Berlin under Hegel et al., for a while also at Bonn. Ph.D. 1834 Berlin. After some difficulties PD 1839…
DARMESTETER, James. Château-Salins (Meurth, Lorraine) 28.3.1849 — Maisons-Laffitte near Paris 19.10.1894. French Iranian Scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of Calmann Darmesteter, a Jewish bookbinder, and Rosalie Brandeis, younger brother of the philologist Arsène Darmesteter (1846–1888). Educated in Paris, matriculated from Lycée Concordet in 1866. Then studied philology (lic. 1868) and…