BALLY, Charles-Louis. Geneva 4.2.1865 — Geneva 10.4.1947. Swiss Linguist and Greek scholar. Son of a teacher, Jean Gabriel Bally (1828–1870), and Elisa Henriette Louise 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…
BÁLINT-ILLYÉS, Gábor Szentkátolnai. Szentkátolna (now Catalina in Romania) 13.3.1844 — Temesvár (now Timişoara in Romania) 25.5.1913. Hungarian Altaic Scholar, Polyglott and Linguist, also interested in Dravidian. Professor in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca in Romania). Son of Endre Bálint, of a Szekely noble family of hereditary borderguards, and Ágnes Illyés. He learnt…
AUSTERLITZ, Robert Paul. Bucharest, Romania 13.12.1923 — New York 9.9.1994. U.S. (born in Romania) Linguist and Uralic Scholar in the U.S.A. (naturalised 1946), wrote on Dravidian in the 1960s. Son of Austrian Jewish father, Otto Austerlitz from Brünn (Brno), and American mother, Rose Zellenka (with Bohemian roots), grew up in…
AUDOUIN, Édouard-Marie. Candé (Maine-et-Loire) 1864 — 1933. French Classical Philologist, Linguist and Historian. Agrégé 1887, Ph.D. 1898 Paris. From the 1890s Professor of Greek and Roman antiquities at Faculté des lettres, Université de Poitiers, still there in the 1920s. Married 1896 Jeanne Marie Eugénie Champigny. Publications: Diss. I. De la…
ATKINSON, Robert. Gateshead, Yorkshire 6.4.1839 — Rathmines near Dublin 10.1.1908. British Linguist (IE, Celtic and Sanskrit Scholar) in Ireland. Professor in Dublin. Born in Yorkshire as the only child of businessman John Atkinson and his wife Ann. Educated at Anchorage grammar school in Yorkshire. Studies at Trinity College in Dublin…
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…