COSERIU, Eugenio (Eugeniu Coşeriu). Mihăileni, Bălţi (now in Moldova) 27.7.1921 — Tübingen 7.9.2002. Romanian Comparative Linguist in Uruguay and Germany. High school in Bălti. Studies at Iaşi and from 1940 in Rome. Ph.D. 1944 Rome. In 1944-45 taught at Padova, 1945-49 at Milano. In 1950-63 Professor of General and Indo-European…
RONA, José Pedro. Lučenec, Slovakia 20.3.1923 — Rio de Janeiro 16.7.1974. Uruguayan IE Scholar. Born of Hungarian parents in present Slovakia, son of engineer Alejandro Róna and pianist Lea Vajda. Migrated to Uruguay in 1940. Studies at University of Montevideo. Ph.D. 1965 University of Porto Alegre, Brazil, in linguistics. Professor…
FERRARIO, Benigno. Italy 21.9.1887 — 1956. Italian Linguist in Uruguay, interested in Sanskrit. Graduated from I.U.O. in Naples. Emigrated to Uruguay in 1923 and worked as translator for the High Court. Finally Profesor de Lenguas Clásicas y Filosofia at Montevideo University, where he occasionally taught Sanskrit in the 1940s. Publications:…
ALTUCHOW, Nicolás (Mikołaj Ałtuchow). Kiev (Kyiv) 12.9.1912 — Montevideo 3.5.1983. Polish Indologist in South America. Born in Ukraina, son of engineer Wladimir A. 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…