BROWNE, Gerald Michael (mentioned both as Gerald M. and G. Michael). Detroit 13.12.1943 — Urbana, Ill. 30.8.2004. U.S. Philologist. Son of Walter Whitney Browne (b. 1907) and Marjorie Marie Eckard. A.B. 1965 University of Michigan, A.M. 1966, Ph.D. 1968. Beside Greek and Egyptology also studied Sanskrit. From 1974 Assistant Professor, 1975…
MINTURN, Ann Leigh. Chicago 1.7.1928 — 31.10.1999. U.S. Cross-Cultural Scholar. Daughter of Harold D. Minturn and Emma Hamsher. Graduated 1949 from Mount Holyoke College. M.A. 1952 and Ph.D. 1954 Radcliffe College, in Social Psychology. From 1954 Research Associate at Cornell University, 1958-67 at University of Illinois. Then taught at University of…
MARCOVICH (Marković), Miroslav. Belgrad 18.3.1919 — Urbana, Ill. 14.6.2001. Yugoslavian (Serbian) Classical Scholar in America. Studies at Belgrade, graduated 1941. Participated in war as partisan under Tito, then 1946-54 Lecturer in Classical Philology at Belgrade. In 1953 went to India and worked at Visva-Bharati, in 1954 emigrated to Venezuela. In…
LEWIS, Oscar (born Yehezkiel Lefkowitz). New York City 25.12.1914 — New York 16.11.1970. U.S. Anthropologist. Son of a rabbi, Chaim Lefkowitz, and Brocke (Bertha) Biblowirz. Raised in a farm in Liberty in upper New York state. Studies at City College of New York (B.A. 1936 in history) and Columbia University, switched…
PENZL, Herbert. Neufelden, Oberösterreich 2.9.1910 — Oakland 1.9.1995. Austrian Linguist in the U.S.A., naturalised 1944. Professor in Berkeley. Born into an academic family. After gymnasium in Ottakring (Vienna) studied English philology at Vienna. With a scholarship (recommended by S. Freud) went to the U.S.A. and was in 1932-34 Editorial Assistant…
OLIVER, Revilo Pendleton. Corpus Christi, TX 7.7.1908 — Urbana, IL 20.8.1994. U.S. Classical Scholar and Racist Publisher. Son of the elder R. P. Oliver (1853–1929). After high school in Illinois he moved to California and studied Sanskrit on his own. Then studied at Pomona College (B.A.) and Classics at University…
FAIRBANKS, Gordon Hubert. Calgary, Alberta 22.3.1913 — Honolulu, Hawaii 13.7.1985. Canadian Linguist in the U.S.A., NIA, IE, Russian and Armenian Scholar. Citizen of the U.S.A. Professor in Ithaca, Manoa and Urbana. Son of Hubert Fairbanks (1892–1970) and Constance Maud Bullock. Educated at Mount Royal College in Calgary, studies at at…
BLOOMFIELD, Leonard. Chicago 1.4.1887 — New Haven CT 18.4.1949. U.S. Linguist. Professor in Columbus, Chicago, and New Haven. Son of Sigmund Bloomfield (born Blumenfeld, 1853–1918) and Carola Buber, a Jewish family of German background, nephew of —> Maurice Bloomfield (1855–1928). Elementary school in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, where his father had…