DUFF (Mrs. Rickmers), Christina Mabel. Calcutta 7.12.1866 — Munich 24.12.1939. British (Scottish) Traveller and Indologist. Daughter of William Pirie Duff (1838–1899), a merchant in Calcutta, and Isabella Davidson, granddaughter of the pioneer of Scottish mission in India, Dr. Alexander Duff (1806–1876). Educated in London and Berlin, she studied Sanskrit at Kiel under Deussen. From 1897 wife of the German geographer and explorer Wilhelm Rickmer (Willy) Rickmers (1873–1965). Participated in several trips of exploration and mountaineering of her husband, in Central Asia, Caucasia and Balkan. They had no children. Her Chronology was the first good work of its kind and therefore long time used as a handbook.
Publications: “The Chronology of the later Andhrabhṛtyas”, JRAS 1893, 613-619.
– The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. 11+409 p. L. 1899.
– Translated: Deussen: The Elements of Metaphysics. With an Appendix, containing the Address On the Philosophy of the Vedânta in its Relations to Occidental Metaphysics. L. 1894 & Manual of Vedānta Philosophy. Bombay 1919; and a number of other works from German into English or vice versa.
– Translated from W. Geiger’s German manuscript: Cūlavaṁsa. 1-2. 42+362, 34+365 p. P.T.S., translation series 18 & 20. L. 1929-30.
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