Sogdian – Page 3 – Persons of Indian Studies by Prof. Dr. Klaus Karttunen

BENVENISTE, Émile

BENVENISTE, Émile (born Ezra B.). Aleppo, Syria 25.2. or 27.4.1902 — Versailles 3.10.1976. French Iranian scholar and Linguist. Professor in Paris, naturalized as Frenchman in 1924. Son of Mathieu (Mathatias) Benveniste, of a well known Sephardim family of Turkey (originally of Spain), and Marie Malkenson (an Ashkenazi from Lithuania), both…

ANDREEV, Mihail Stepanovič.

ANDREEV, Mihail Stepanovič. Taškent 11(23).9.1873 — Stalinabad (Dušanbe) 10.11.1948. Russian Iranian Scholar. Son of an official. After gymnasium in Taškent studied from 1889 at the Turkmenian Teachers’ College, graduated in 1893. Privately learned Arabic, Persian and Turkish. Worked as teacher in Khodjent and Taškent. In 1905-14 interpreter and vice-consul for…