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 only son of Leone Flaminio Ascoli (died early) and Elena Norsa, lost soon his father. Never went to…
ANTON, Konrad Gottlob. Lauban, Oberlausitz (Lubań in Poland) 29.11.1745 — Dresden 4.7.1814. German Oriental (Hebrew) Scholar and Linguist. Professor in Wittenberg. In one source (Gel. T.) born in 1743. Son of Günter Konrad Anton, a belter, and Maria Magdalene Zimmer. Studies at Leipzig. From 1775 Professor of Oriental (i.e. Semitic)…
ANDERSON, Nikolai Karl Adolf (Russian Nikolaj Ivanovič Anderson). Kullina-Mühle (now Kulina) near Wesenborg (Rakvere, Estonia) 24.9.(6.10.)1845 — Narva 9.(22.)3.1905. Russian (Estonian German) Linguist, Specialist of IE and Finno-Ugrian. Son of the tenant Johann Anderson and Juliane Charlotte Martinseg. Educated in St.Petersburg and in 1859-64 at Reval Gymnasium in Tallinn, then…
ANDERSEN, Dines. Ullerslev, Fyn 26.12.1861 — Copenhagen 28.3.1940. Danish Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Son of mill builder Dines Andersen (1833–1861) and Christine Poulsen (1833–1914), lost his father before his birth. His mother remarried, but the son grew up with smith J. Jensen and his wife Anne Marie Larsen. Supported by patrons,…
ALTUCHOW, Nicolás (Mikołaj Ałtuchow). Kiev (Kyiv) 12.9.1912 — Montevideo 3.5.1983. Polish Indologist in South America. Born in Ukraine, son of engineer Wladimir Altuchow and Anna Hornung, family moved to Poland in 1917. Student of Stasiak at Lwów (Lviv), in 1936-39 his Assistant. Then emigrated to England. From 1951 he was…
ALMKVIST, Herman Napoleon (born Almqvist). Stockholm 28.4.1839 — Uppsala 30.9.1904. Swedish Oriental Scholar. Professor in Uppsala. Son of city cashier Per Johan Almqvist and Fredrika Vilhelmina Holmström, educated in Stockholm. Studies of Arabic, Persian and Turkish at Uppsala from 1856: M.A. 1864, Ph.D. 1866. PD in Arabic in the same…
ALEMANY Y BOLUFER, José. Cullera near Valencia 1.7.1866 — Madrid 26.10.1934. Spanish Linguist, translator of Sanskrit Texts. Born in a humble farmer family he could only after many hardships begin his education in Valencia, and had again to interrupt it and work in his native village. He went on studying…
ALEKSANDROV, Aleksandr Ivanovič (Monk 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 Dorpat (Tartu). PD 1886 Tartu, soon (1886) Professor of Comparative Linguistics…
ABEGG, Emil. Küsnacht near Zürich 11.1.1885 — Zürich 12.2.1962. Swiss Indologist. Professor in Zürich. Son of merchant Emil Abegg (1846–1894) and Fanny Guggenbühl, school and teacher’s college in Küsnacht. Learned Sanskrit first by himself, then from 1904 studied Germanistics, psychology, Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit (under Kaegi) at Zürich University. Ph.D.…
AALTO, Pentti. Pori 22.7.1917 — Helsinki 30.11.1998. Finnish Classical Scholar, Linguist, Altaist and Indologist. Son of shop assistant Martti Johannes Aalto and Martta Elisabeth Lindroos. Matriculation from Porin lyseo in 1935, then studies of comparative, oriental and classical philology at Helsinki University: M.A. 1939, Lic. Phil. 1949, Ph.D. 1949. During…