GOIDANICH (Petar Gabrijel Gojdanić), Pier Gabriele. Volosca di Lussimpiccolo (now Volosko in Croatia) 30.6.1868 — Bologna 27.10.1953. Italian (with Croatian background) Linguist. Son of Croatian parents, Pietro Goidanich and Antonella (Antonietta?) Stuparich. Gymnasium in Capodistria (Koper). Studies at Milano under Ascoli, then eight years teacher in Campania. From 1899 taught…
GEORGIEV, Vladimir Ivanov. Gabare near Byala Slatina 3.2. or 6.2.1908 — Sofia 14.7.1986. Bulgarian IE Linguist and Specialist of Balkan (especially Thracian and Illyrian) and Anatolian Languages. Studied classics and IE (under Mladenov) at Sofia in 1926-30, further studies at Vienna 1933-34, Berlin 1935-36, Florence 1939-40 and Paris 1946-47. Ph.D.…
GAWROŃSKI, Andrzej. Geneva 20.6.1885 — Jósefów near Warsaw 11.1.1927. Polish Indologist. Professor in Lwów. Son of the historian Franciszek Rawita-G. (1845–1930) and —> Antonina Gawrońska, born in Switzerland during his parents’ exile. The family returned to (the then Russian) Poland in 1887. Educated in Warsaw and Lwów (now L’viv in…
FEIST, Samuel Sigmund. Mainz 12.6.1865 — Copenhagen 23.3.1943. German IE Linguist and Pedagogue. Son of wine merchant David Feist and Juliana Marx. Studies at Strassburg (Strasbourg), Ph.D. 1888 (diss. on Gothic). Director of the Reichenheim Orphanage in Berlin, 1906-35, kept a military order. In 1939 emigrated as Jew to Denmark…
DERVICHIAN, Serope (Seraphin Dervischjan). 1846 — 1899. Armenian Linguist. Mekhitarist, studied at Vienna, mainly Sanskrit and Pehlevi. Hübschmann wrote a very negative review of his book (ZDMG 30, 1876, 774-779). Publications: Armeniaka. 1. Das altarmenische “k”. Ein Beitrag zur indo-europäischen Lautlehre. 117 p. Vienna 1877; La langue primitive indo-européenne. 1885…
CANALEJAS y Casas, Francisco de Paula. Lucena, prov. Cördoba 2.4.1834 — Madrid 4.5.1883. Spanish Scholar of Literature interested in Indo-European. Studies at Madrid, graduated in humanities 1856, in law 1857, Ph.D. 1858. In 1860-62 Professor of Literature at Valladolid, then eo. Professor at Madrid. Also worked as advocate. Attended Garcia…
BRAUNHOLTZ, Gustav Ernst Karl. Cambridge 19.3.1887 — 21.4.1967. British Linguist (IE and Classic). Son of Eugen Gustav Braunholtz (1859–1941), German academician who moved in 1884 to Cambridge (note his diss. Die erste nichtchristliche Parabel des Barlaam und Josaphat. Ihre Herkunft und Verbreitung. 8+110 p. Halle 1884) and Elisabeth Breul. Studies…
BAUDIŠ, Josef. Prague 27.8.1883 — Bratislava 4.5.1933. Czech IE and Celtic Linguist and Folklorist. Gymnasium and studies (1902-06) in Prague. Ph.D. 1906 (under Zubatý). Soon PD at Prague, also taught at a gymnasium there. After WW lived some time in the U.K. studying Celtology. From 1924 Professor at Comenius University in…
ZUBATÝ, Josef. Prague 20.4.1855 (or 1851?) — Prague 21.3.1931. Czechoslovakian Indologist and Slavic Scholar. Professor in Prague. Studied classical philology, Czech, Sanskrit and Comparative Linguistics at Prague (under Ludwig). Ph.D. 1883. PD 1885 Prague, in the Czech branch of the University, succeeding Vaníček in Sanskrit teaching. From 1894 Professor of…
WRIGHT, Joseph. Idle near Bradford, Yorkshire 31.10.1855 — Oxford 27.2.1930. British Linguist. Son of Dufton Wright (d. 1866), a woollen cloth weaver and quarryman, and Sarah Ann Atkinson, a modest family. Working from childhood in various odd jobs he started night-school when 15, concentrating on languages, and in 1876 went…