GROHMANN, Joseph Virgil. Hainspach (Haňšpach), Bez. Schluckenau (now Šluknov in Czech) 12.12.1831 — Prague 12.10.1919. Austro-Bohemian Teacher interested in Philology, also Journalist, Author and Politician. Studies of classical and German philology and Sanskrit at Prague (i.al. under G. Curtius and Schleicher), Ph.D. there 1857. In 1856-63 Professor at Prager Handelsakademie,…
GRÉGOIRE, Antoine. Louvain 26.6.1871 — Uccle (Brussels) 2.5.1955. Belgian Iranian Scholar, Linguist and Phonetician. Professor in Liège. Educated in Verviers and Liège. Studies at Liège (dr. philol. class. 1893), then further studies of IE at Leipzig (Brugman, Sievers, Hirt), Munich (E. Kuhn, Krumbacher) and Paris (Bréal, V. Henry, Meillet). In…
GREENOUGH, James Bradstreet. Portland, Maine 4.5.1833 — Cambridge, MA 11.10.1901. U.S. Classical Scholar and Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Professor at Harvard. Son of James Greenough (1802–1885) and his wife Catharine, the family moved soon to Boston. After Boston Latin School graduated A.B. in 1856 from Harvard College. Studied one year…
GREEN, Alexander. Kassa, Hungary 1888 — Wellesley, MA 11.11.1934. U.S. Linguist. Grew up in Hungary, came to the U.S.A. in 1903. Studies, mainly German, at College of the City of New York (B.A.) and Columbia University (M.A.). Ph.D. 1913 Columbia. Further studies at Leipzig. In 1913-16 Instructor in German at…
GRAY, Louis Herbert. Newark, NJ 10.4.1875 — New York 18.8.1955. U.S. Indologist, Iranian Scholar and Linguist. Professor in New York. Son of Thomas J. Gray and Anna Elizabeth Earl. Studies at Princeton (A.B. 1896) and Columbia (A.M. 1898, Ph.D. 1900, under A. V. Williams Jackson). In 1900-02 chief cataloguer and…
GRASSMANN, Hermann Günther. Stettin (now Szczecin) 15.4.1809 — Stettin 26.9.1877. German Indologist and Mathematician. Schoolteacher in Stettin. Son of Justus Günther Grassmann (1779–1852) a teacher of mathematics, and Johanne Fredericke Louise Medenwaldt, educated in Stettin. From 1827 studies of theology at Berlin under Schleiermacher, also philology under Böckh and privately…
GRANDJEAN, J.-M. 18?? — 1???. French Linguist. Student of Regnaud at Lyon (still there 1888). Maxime Ravel writes to me that the BNF Catalogue identifies him as Jean-Marie Grandjean (born Lyon 31.7.1855), a physician who wrote about medical subjects (1892), but he finds this, probably rightly, as suspect, possibly a…
GRAMMONT, Maurice. Damprichard (Doubs) 15.4.1866 — Montpellier 17.10.1946. French IE and General Linguist, Psycholinguist and Phonetician. Studies at Freiburg (Thurneysen), Berlin (J. Schmidt) and Paris (Bréal, de Saussure). Ph.D. 1895 Paris. Maître de conferences at Faculté de Dijon (1892-95), then in 1895-1939 Professor of Comparative Linguistics at Faculté de Montpellier,…
GRAEFE, Christian-Friedrich (von) (Gräfe, Russian Fëdor Bogdanovič Grefe, Latin Fredericus Graefius). Chemnitz 1.7.1780 — St.Petersburg 12.12.1851. German Linguist in Russia. Son of Johann Gotthelf Graefe (1750–1821), a minister, and his wife Christine Friederike (who died two days after his birth). After Lyceum in Chemnitz studied from 1796 theology and Greek…
GRACIAS, Bernardino João Salvador. Nova Goa (Panaji) 1.4.1889 — Lisbon 17.9.1966. Portuguese Linguist and Indologist. Born in India, son of José António Ismael Gracias (1857–1919) and Maria Lucina Pacheco, of ancient Portuguese family in Goa. Came to Portugal in 1910 and studied German, law, archival and military sciences, etc. in…