ERDMAN, Axel. Stockholm 6.2.1843 — Uppsala 8.11.1926. Swedish Linguist. Professor of English in Uppsala. Son of the mineralogist Axel J. Erdman (1814–1869) and Sophia Charlotta Nyström, educated in Stockholm. From 1861 studies of classical and modern languages at Uppsala, fil.kand. 1869. Then school-teacher of classical languages and English. In 1871…
ENTWISTLE, Alan William. Weymouth, Dorsett 10.3.1949 — Seattle 28.3.1996. British Indologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Seattle. Son of W. D. Entwistle and Neta D. Whiles. Studies at University of Southampton (B.A. 1971 in French) and S.O.A.S. (M.A. 1975 in Area Studies). In 1976-78 field-work in Vrindaban, India. Ph.D. 1982…
ENTHOVEN, Reginald Edward. Hastings, Sussex 23.11.1869 — Boars Hill near Oxford 21.5.1952 (when 82). British Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of James Henry Enthoven (1823–1913) and Miriam Josephine Mozley. Educated at Wellington College, from 1887 studies at New College, Oxford, in preparation to Indian service. Joined I.C.S. in…
ENGELSMANN, Gabriel. 18?? — 1???. Student of Indology in Austria. Ph.D. 1885 Vienna. Perhaps hailed from a learned Jewish family in what is now Slovakia. One G.E. of Vienna, a journalist, is mentioned in 1902. geni.com knows one Gabor/Gabriel E., the son of Jakob E. and Róza Englander, born c.…
ENDLE, Sidney. Totnes, Devon 1840? — Dibrugarh ?.7.1907. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of a vicar, educated at Totnes Grammar School and at St. Augustine’s College in Canterbury. First arrived at Tezpur in Assam in 1864 and worked 43 years as Anglican missionary and chaplain among Kachari Baras (Bodos).…
EMINESCU, Mihai (born Mihail Eminovici). Botoşani, Moldavia 15.1.1850 — Bucharest 15.6.1889. Romanian Poet interested in India. One of Romania’s most notable poets. Of somewhat unclear origin, son of a Moldavian potentate, Gheorghe Eminovici and Raluca Iuraşcu. School in Cernăuţi 1858-66, first poem published in 1866.. Studied in Vienna 1869-72 and…
EMELEN, Arthur Marie Joseph van. Leuven 2.3.1874 — Ranchi 17.8.1936. S.J. Father. Belgian Missionary in India. Son of Léon van Emelen (1829–1900) and Catharina Sofia Casteleyn. Worked in Chota Nagpur and collaborated with —> J. B. Hoffmann (1857–1928) completing the great dictionary after his death. He was also interested in botany…
ELWIN, Harry Verrier Holman. Dover 29.8.1902 — Delhi 22.2.1964. British Anthropologist in India, Indian Citizen. Son of the Right Rev. Bishop Edmund Henry Elwin (1871–1909) of Sierra Leone and Minnie Holman, lost his father when seven. Educated in Cheltenham, studies of English literature and theology from 1921 at Merton College,…
ELWELL, Levi Henry. Northampton, Mass. 22.3.1854 — Amherst, Mass. 27.12.1916. U.S. Indologist and Classical scholar. Son of the elder Levi Henry Elwell (1820–1862/66) and Harriet Adeline Ross (1823–1898). Educated at Amherst College (B.A. 1875; M.A. 1878), and 1876-77 at Yale. In 1875-76 schoolteacher in New York state, then at Amherst…
ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart. Dumbarton, Scotland 6.10.1779 — Hookwood, Surrey 20.11.1859. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. The youngest son of John, the 11th Baron Elphinstone (1737–1794), and Anne Ruthven (1737–1801). Educated in Edinburgh and Kensington. From 1795 writer in E.I.C.’s service, was sent to Benares, where he soon learned Persian and…