BĂNĂŢEANU, Vlad. Timişoara 22.8.1900 — Bucharest 8.11.1963. Romanian IE and Classical Scholar, Armenologist and Indologist. Professor in Bucureşti. First studies of law and philology at Cernăuţi (1918-23), wrote his dissertation on Latin grammar. Then studied in Paris in the 1920s Indian, IE, Classic and Celtic philology under such teachers as…
BALLY, Charles-Louis. Geneva 4.2.1865 — Geneva 10.4.1947. Swiss Linguist and Greek scholar. Son of a teacher, Jean Bally (d. 1870), and Henriette Ruffini, lost early his father. From 1883 studied mainly Greek philology at Geneva, in the 1890s became de Saussure’s student, now also learned Sanskrit. Further studies at Berlin…
ASCOLI, Graziadio Isaia. Gorizia 16.7.1829 — Milano 21.1.1907. Italian (Jewish) Linguist. Professor in Milano. Born in a rich Jewish merchant family in Görz, then of Austria (now Gorizia in Italy) as the son of Leone Flaminio Ascoli (died early) and Elena Norsa. Never went to school, but was tutored by…
ARNOLD, Fr. 18?? — 1???. German IE Student. Ph.D. 1890 Würzburg. Publications: Diss. Das Alter des o-Lautes in den indogermanischen Sprachen. 23 p. Würzburg 1890. Sources: No life in diss.
ARENDT, Carl. Berlin 1.12.1838 — Berlin 29./30.1.1902. German Sinologist, a Student of Bopp. Son of a schoolteacher, himself educated at Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin. From 1858 studies of linguistics at Berlin under Bopp and Steinthal, started early to write on IE questions. On Bopp’s advice he went to China in…
AMMANN, Hermann Joseph Ferdinand. Bruchsal, Baden 10.8.1885 — Innsbruck 12.9.1956. German IE Linguist in Austria. Professor in Innsbruck. Son of Jakob Ammann (d. 1895), a school director and teacher of classical languages, and Anna Bilharz, also a teacher. Educated in Bruchsal and Freiburg. Studies at Freiburg (Thurneysen) and Heidelberg. Ph.D.…
AMELUNG, Arthur Julius Heinrich. Catharina, Livonia (now Võisiku, Estonia) 15.7./27.7.1840 — Montreux 6.4.1874. (Baltic) German Linguist (Germanic and IE). Son of a glass factory owner, Carl Georg Amelung (1795–1851) and Julie Koeler (1802–1846). Studied first history and chemistry at Dorpat (Tartu) in 1862-63, then comparative linguistics at Berlin and other…
ALEKSANDROV, Aleksandr Ivanovič (Anastasij). Baiterjakovo, gub. Kazan 16/28.4.1861 — Petrograd 23.6.1918. Russian Slavist and IE Scholar. Son of a priest. School in Kazan, from 1879 studies at Kazan (under Baudouin de Courtenay and Kruševskij, kand. 1883), then at Doormat (Tartu). PD 1886 Tartu, soon (1886) Professor of Comparative Linguistics and Sanskrit…
AGRELL, Per Sigurd. Rämmen, Värmland 16.1.1881 — Lund 19.4.1937. Swedish Slavist and IE Linguist, Runic Scholar, Translator and Poet. Professor in Lund. Son of factory owner Frans Vilhelm Agrell and Ida Vendela Örtenholm. School in Stockholm. Studies from 1899 at Uppsala: fil.kand. & fil.lic. 1907 there, Ph.D. 1909 Lund. PD…