REDARD, Georges. Neuchâtel 4.4.1922 — Kirchlindach 24.1.2005. Swiss IE and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Neuchâtel and Bern. Son of post official Arnold Ernest Redard and Mathilde Kröpfli. Studies at Neuchâtel: 1940 baccalauréat ès lettres (with Hebrew), 1943 licensié ès langues classiques (with Russian, Lithuanian, Persian and Sanskrit); then at Bern…
RASTORGUEVA, Vera Sergeevna. Manor of Storoževskij, Tambovskij Gub. (later Usmanskij rajon in Lipeckaja oblast) 23.5.(5.6.)1912 — 7.11.2005. Russian Iranian Scholar. Daughter of a farmer. Graduated 1938 in Leningrad. Kand. filologičeskih nauk 1944, Docent 1947, Dr. 1964, Professor 1969. In 1942-44 taught Iranian philology at University of Tadzhikistan, in 1945-60 at…
BEČKA, Jiří. Prague 16.10.1915 — Prague 21.12.2004. Czech Iranian Scholar. Gymnasium in Prague. From 1936 studied law and Oriental languages at Prague, then much belated because of WW II. Dr. juris 1945. Ph.D. 1954. In 1952-76 librarian and research scholar at Institute of Oriental Studies, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, then…
MACKENZIE, David Neil. London 8.4.1926 — Bangor, Wales 13.10.2001. British Iranian Scholar in Germany. Professor in Göttingen. Son of David MacKenzie, educated in Slough, Windsor and Cambridge. In the WW II his mother and sister went to Canada, but he remained with his father. From November 1943 to December 1947 voluntary…
DODYHUDOEV, Rahim Halilovič. Sahčar, Gorno-Badahšan 15.6.1928 — Moscow 14.11.1995. Russian (Tadzhik?) Iranian scholar, specialist of Pamir languages. Son of a farmer. In 1946-56 served in Red Army, then studied until 1958 at Dushanbe University, taught there in 1961-80. In 1980-84 Director of Tadzhik Institute of Russian Language and Literature, from…
ABAEV, Vasilij Ivanovič (Oss. Vaso Abajty). Kobi, rajon Kazbeg, Georgia 15(28).12.1900 — Moscow 18.3.2001. Russian Iranian and Caucasian Scholar, himself of Ossetian Origin. Born in a village, in 1910-18 school in Tbilisi, then elementary school teacher in Kobi. From 1912 studied at the Oriental Faculty in St.Petersburg, graduated 1925 in…
LERH, Pëtr Ivanovič (Peter von Lerch). St.Petersburg 1828 — Hamburg 16.9.1884. Russian (with German background) Archaeologist and Scholar of Comparative Iranian. Born in a German family living in Russia. Studied Oriental languages at St.Petersburg, graduated in 1850. Worked then in minor office for the Academy. In 1856 fieldwork among Persian…
RECZEK, Józef. Szczepanów, Lesser Poland 16.2.1936 — Ibid. 13.2.1988. Polish Indo-European, Slavonic and Iranian Linguist. Son of Alojzy Reczek and Anna Kargol. Studies at Cracow in 1953-59 (i.al. under Kuryłowicz, Pobożniak and T. Milewski). From 1958 one of the editors of Słownik staropolski. Ph.D. 1967 (diss. on Slavonic), from 1972 taught linguistics at…
STACKELBERG, Reinhold Otto Georg, Baron von. Abia/Livonia (now Abja in SW Estonia) 25.9.1860 — Moscow 21.12.1907 (5.1.1908). Russian (German of Livonia) Iranian Scholar, specialist of Ossetic and Persian. Son of Reinhold (Roman) Johann Woldemar von St. (1819–1878) and Henrietta Augusta Charlotta Freiin von St. (1839–1889). He attended gymnasium in Pernau…
SKÖLD, Hannes (Johannes Evelinus). Västerlövsta, Västmanland 20.9.1886 — Höör, Skåne 14.9.1930. Swedish Indologist and Linguist. Son of the missionary Johan Sköld (1859–1946, in China 1885-1922) and Eva Charlotta Eriksdotter (d. 1931), spent himself the age 4 to 11 in China. Matriculated in 1905 from Norrköping, studied at Göteborg (fil.kand. 1907). Worked as…