SCHERZL, Vincenz (Vikentij Ivanovič Šercl’, Čeněk Šercl). Beroun, Bohemia (Czechia) 28.9.1843 — Ljubljana 4.12.1906. Czech Indologist and IE Scholar in Ukraine and Russia. Professor in Har’kov (Har’kiv) and Odessa. Brother of —> Richard Scherzl (1850–19??). Educated in Prague, in 1861-64 studied law at Prague, but used much time for learning…
SCHERZL, Richard (Ričard Ivanovič Šercl’). Prague 19.9.1850 — after 1914. Czech Scholar in Ukraine. Younger brother of —> V. Scherzl (1843–1906). School and 1868-72 studies of classical philology at Prague, in 1872-74 Slavic at St.Petersburg. Worked as teacher moving to Har’kov (Harkiv), where his brother was living. Completed his degree…
RITTER, Pavlo Grigorovič (Hryhorovyč, Russian Pavel Grigor’evič Ritter). Čutovo, Poltava obl. 5.4.1872 — 17.4.1939. Ukrainian Indologist, Literary Historian, Critic, etc. Professor in Harkiv (Kharkiv). Son of the manager of a landed estate. Studies at Harkiv under Ovsjaniko-Kulikovskij, mainly Slavic, but also Sanskrit. Graduated 1894. Further studies of Sanskrit in 1895-96…
POTEBNJA, Oleksandr Opanasovyč (Russian Aleksandr Afanasevič). Maniv near Havrylivka (Gavrilovka), dt. Poltava 10/22.9.1835 — Harkiv 29.11./11.12.1891. Ukrainian Linguist. Born in a noble Cossack family. After school in Radom (now in Poland) studied from 1851 at Harkov (Harkiv) law, history and philology (graduated 1856) and then Slavistics (grad. 1860), i.al. under…
OVSJANIKO-KULIKOVSKIJ, Dmitrij Nikolaevič (Ukr. Dmitro Mikolajovič O.-K.). Kahovka, Herson oblast 23.1.(4.2.)1853 — Odessa 9.10.1920. Ukrainian Linguist, Indologist and Literary Critic. Professor in Harkiv (Kharkiv), Academician in St.Petersburg. Born in a noble family, son of Nikolaj Nikolaevič Ovsjaniko-Kulikovskij and Varvara Nikolaevna Rud’. After gymnasium in Simferopol studies of Sanskrit and linguistics…
DORN, Johann Albrecht Bernhard (Boris Andreevič) von. Scheuerfeld bei Koburg 11.5.1805 — St.Petersburg 19.5.(31.5.)1881. German Oriental (Iranian) Scholar in Russia. Son of Heinrich Wilhelm Dorn (1770–1836), a minister, and Susanna Friederike Bühl. Gymnasium in Coburg. Studies from 1822, first Theology, soon Oriental languages, at Halle and Leipzig. Ph.D. and PD…
DILLON, Emile Joseph [in French also used E. de Dillon]. Dublin 21.3.1855 (or 1854?) — Barcelona 9.6.1933. British Linguist and Journalist. Son of Irish father, Michael Dillon, and English mother, Mary Byrne. Originally trained for priesthood, studied at Clonliffe College in Dublin, Pantasaph monastery in Wales, Seminary of St.Sulpice, France,…
ALEKSANDROV, Aleksandr Ivanovič (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 Doormat (Tartu). PD 1886 Tartu, soon (1886) Professor of Comparative Linguistics and Sanskrit…