BONFANTE, Giuliano Ugo. Milano 6.8.1904 — Rome 9.9.2005 (when 101). Italian IE and Romance Linguist. Son of Pietro Bonfante (1864-1932), Professor and scholar of the history of Roman law, and Pia Rua. Studies of literature and law in Rome. Professor from 1929 at Naples, but soon decided to avoid the…
BAADER, Theodor Ludger Josef Anna Maria. Münster 25.4.1888 — Hiltrup, Westfalen 16.4.1959. German Linguist, Specialist of Dialectology. Son of Franz Xaver Wilhelm Baader, a book printer, and Clara Jäger. School in Münster, studies of German and history from 1910 at Münster. Ph.D. 1913 Münster (diss. on local dialect). In 1914-17…
ANTKOWSKI, Ferdynand. 26.3.1914 — 1962. Polish Linguist. Ph.D. Docent at Poznań. Publications:La chronologie de la monophtongaison des diphtongues dans les langues indo-européennes. 55 p. Poznański Towarzystwo Przyjacioł Nauk: Prace Komisji filologicznej 16:4. Poznań 1956. Sources: *L. Zabrocki, Slavia occidentalis 23, 1963, 325-327.
WILSER, Ludwig Johann Daniel. Karlsruhe 5.10.1850 — Heidelberg 19.11.1923. German Physician and Racist Theoretician. Son of merchant Ludwig Wilser (1817–1880) and Lydia Baeurle. Gymnasium in Karlsruhe, from 1869 medical studies at Freiburg, Heidelberg and Leipzig. Dr.Med. 1875 Freiburg. Then practising physician in Karlsruhe until 1897, when he moved to Heidelberg…
WESTCOTT, Roger Williams. Philadelphia 28.4.1925 — Southbury, Conn. 21.11.2000. U.S. Linguist. From 1942 studies at Princeton, Ph.D. 1948 in Oriental Languages. Taught at M.I.T., Boston University, University of Michigan, Southern Connecticut State University, Wilson College, finally Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Drew University, emeritus. Publications: “Toward a more concise inventory…
TUCKER, Thomas George. Burnham, Buckinghamshire 29.3.1859 — Stope Cove, Devon 24.1.1946. British Classical Scholar in Australia. Professor in Melbourne. Son of Charles Tucker, agent, and Elizabeth Rolfe. Educated in Northampton and Lancaster, studies at Cambridge (St. John’s College, Fellow 1882). B.A. 1882, M.A. 1885. From 1883 the first Professor of…
TROST, Paul/Pavel. Šternberg, Moravia 3.10.1907 — Prague 6.1.1987. Czech IE, Slavic and German Linguist. Professor in Prague. Son of engineer Karl Trost and his wife Paula, a Catholic family. Gymnasium in Brno, studies of IE and general, Romance, Germanic and Slavic linguistics at Prague German University in 1928-34. Ph.D. 1934…
THIEME, Paul. Berlin 18.4.1905 — London 27.4.2001. German Indologist. Professor in Halle, New Haven and Tübingen. Son of Oskar Thieme (1868–1943), a minister, and Elisabeth Blancke (1870–1942), born as one of triplets. Gymnasium in Eisenach, privately learned Sanskrit from Fick’s textbook (from school he had Latin, Greek and Hebrew). From…
SWADESH, Morris. Holyoke, MA 22.1.1909 — México City 20.7.1967. U.S. Linguist. Son of Bessarabian Jewish immigrant parents. Studies of Linguistics (L. Bloomfield) and Anthropology (E. Sapir) at University of Chicago (B.A., M.A.), then followed his teacher Sapir to Yale (Ph.D. there 1933). In 1937-39 Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin…
STOLZ, Friedrich. Hall in Tyrol 29.7.1850 — Innsbruck 13.7.1915. Austrian IE Linguist. Professor in Innsbruck. Son of Joseph Stolz, a psychiatrist, and Anna Luise Rapp (d. 1857). From 1868 studied classics at Innsbruck under Jülg et al., 1871-72 at Leipzig (Curtius). From 1872 teacher in Görz, and soon in Graz.…