Columbia University – Page 3 – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen

AUSTERLITZ, Robert Paul

AUSTERLITZ, Robert Paul. Bucharest, Romania 13.12.1923 — New York 9.9.1994. U.S. (born in Romania) Linguist and Uralic Scholar in the U.S.A. (naturalised 1946), wrote on Dravidian in the 1960s. Son of Austrian father, Otto Austerlitz, and American mother, Rose Zellenka (with Bohemian roots), grew up in Braşov, learned there German,…

ARROWSMITH, Robert

ARROWSMITH, Robert. Brooklyn, N.Y. 23.11.1860 — 1.6.1928. U.S. Linguist and Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Son of Milton John Arrowsmith and Phebe Wood Platt. Studies at Columbia University: A.B. 1882, A.M. 1883, Ph.D. 1884; University Fellow in 1882-83 and 1885-86. In 1884-85 further studies at Berlin University. Assistant in Modern…