GRACIAS, Caetano Francisco Xavier. Loutulim, Salcete, India 27.6.1865 — ibid. 15.10.1944. Portuguese Physician, Botanist, and Historian. Son of Joaquim Sebastião do Rosario da Piedade Gr. and Maria Justina Lucia de Santissima Trindade Borges, brother of —> J. B. A. Gracias. Graduated in 1892 from Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Nova Goa. From…
GRACIAS, Bernardino João Salvador. Nova Goa (Panaji) 1.4.1889 — Lisbon 17.9.1966. Portuguese Linguist and Indologist. Born in India, son of José António Ismael Gracias and Maria Lucina Pacheco, of ancient Portuguese family in Goa. Came to Portugal in 1910 and studied German, law, archival and military sciences, etc. in Lisbon.…
GOWEN, Herbert Henry. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk 29.5.1864 — Bainbridge Island, Washington, U.S.A. 6.11.1960. British Priest and Oriental Scholar in the U.S.A. Professor in Seattle. Son of Henry Cobb G. and Mary Fuller, educated at St.Augustine’s College in Canterbury (A.B. 1888). Deacon 1886, priest 1889. D.D. 1912 Whitman College. In 1886-90…
GOVINDA, Lama Anagarika —> HOFFMANN, E. L.
GOVER, Charles Edward. Poplar, Middlesex 1835 — Madras (Chennai) 18.9.1872 (not 20.9.). British Indologist and Folklorist in India. Son of Thomas G. and his wife Anne. From 1864 Principal and secretary of the Madras Military Orphan Male Asylum at Egmore, Madras. Married 1863 Clara Gertrude Taylor (1845–1917), five children. Died…
GOUGH, Richard. London 21.10.1735 — Enfield, Middlesex 20.2.1809. British Antiquarian. Son of Harry Gough (1681–1751), M.P. and Director of E.I.C., and Elizabeth Hynde. Studies at Cambridge (Corpus Christi), 1752-56, without degree. Travelled much in the U.K., but never abroad, from 1774 resided in the family estate in Enfield. F.R.S. 1778.…
GOUGH, Archibald Edward. London 2.3.1845 — 1915 (buried 20.12.1915 in Guernsey). British Teacher and Indologist in India. Son of Alexander Richard G. (architect in London) and Mary Ann Bainbridge, educated at Lincoln College. Studies at Oxford (M.A.). Anglo-Sanskrit Professor at Government College in Benares in 1868-77, then 1877-86 Professor of Philosophy…
GOTHEIN, Marie-Louise (née Schröter). Passenheim, Ostpreussen (now Pasym in Poland) 12.9.1863 — Heidelberg 24.12.1931. German Author interested in India. Daughter of Constantin Schröter, Landesgerichtsrat in Breslau, and Hermine Auguste Leonhardy. In 1885 married with Eberhard Gothein (1853–1923), an economist and cultural historian, who worked as Professor of Nationalökonomie at Technische…
GOSSELLIN, Pascal-François-Joseph. Lille 6.12.1751 — Paris 8.2.1830. French Merchant, Geographer and Historian of Geography. Born in a family of merchants, came early into family business. Member of Chambre de commerce in Lille, from 1784 of Conseil royal du commerce for Flanders, Hainaut and Cambrésis. Travelled much in Europe on business.…
GOŞBUC, George. Hordou 1866 — Bucharest 1918. Romanian Poet and Translator of Sanskrit literature. However, he never learnt Sanskrit, and his many translations were made from German versions. From Transylvania, son of a minister. After a while in Bucharest (?)in 1890 moved to a Carpathian village and wrote there much…