POELMEIJER, Ronald Herman. Amsterdam 12.7.1946 — Amsterdam 30.6.1993. Dutch Tibetologist. Son of Hermanus Poelmeijer (1913–1993) and Lena Cornelia Hund. Studied Indology and Tibetan at Amsterdam, then Lecturer of Tibetan at Leiden. Never completed his doctorate. Publications: Reviews and popular articles, e.g. “Geneeskunde in Tibet”, Yoga 25:1, 1983, 20-27, 25:2, 1983,…
PITTMAN, Richard Saunders (Dick). Streator, Ill. 19.2.1915 — Waxhaw, Union, NC 21.8.1998. U.S. Linguist. Son of glass manufacturer Edwin John Pittman and Louise Shepard. Graduated 1936 from Asbury College. In 1940-50 lived in Tetelcingo, Mexico, doing linguistic fieldwork, and continued his studies in the U.S.A., first at University of Michigan,…
PIMENTEL, Manuel Carvalho. 16?? — 6.3.1751. S.J. Portuguese Missionary in India. Worked about 30 years in Kerala, from 1722-51 Bishop of Cranganore, but prevented by Dutch from entering his diocese. Publications: Nothing found. Sources: Briefly in A. S. Hernández, Las misiones bajo el patronato portugués. 1. Madrid 1977, 226; stray…
PIGGOTT, Stuart Ernest. Petersfield, Hampshire 28.5.1910 — 23.9.1996. British Archaeologist. Son of G. H. P. Piggott, a teacher. After Churcher’s College (in Petersfield, Hampshire) worked from 1927 at Reading Museum, where he learned knowledge of Neolithic pottery and soon evolved an archaeologist. Excavated several Wessex sites. Formal diplom only 1936…
PIET, John Henry. Grand Rapids, Michigan 2.9.1914 — Holland, Michigan 16.10.1992. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Scholar of Religion. Minister of the Reformed Church in America. Son of Reinder Piet (1881–1956), a railway toolmaker, and Gesina (Gezena) Johanna Charlotta Brinkman, both immigrants from the Netherlands. Studies at Hope College (graduated A.B.…
PIČIKJAN, Igor’ Rubenovič. Tbilisi 3.7.1940 — Berlin 24.7.1997. Russian Archaeologist of Central Asia. Son of an army physician. After studies from 1961 at Moscow University graduated 1967 and worked in northern Black Sea area and in Moscow museums. Kand. filol. nauk 1975, Dr. ist. nauk 1992. From 1977 naučnyj sotrudnik…
PHILIPSBORN, Alexander. Berlin 21.11.1882 — London 22.3.1964. German Lawyer and Historian of Medicine. Son of Nestor Philipsborn (1850–1932?) and Lea Baswitz (1859–1935). Dr.iuris. worked as advocate, notar and legal adviser to the organization of the German hospitals, but as a Jew was excluded from all juridical work in 1933 and…
PHILIPPI, Friedrich Wilhelm Martin (Fritz). Dorpat (Tartu) 3.11.1843 — Rostock 6.3.1905. German (born in Estonia) Semitic Scholar. Professor in Rostock. Son of Friedrich Adolf Philippi (1809–1882), who was later Professor of Theology at Rostock, and Jeannette Pincson, the family was from Germany and only lived in Estonia in 1840-51. After…
PETROV, Aleksandr Andreevič. 176? — St.Petersburg 21.3.1793. Russian translator, friend of —> Karamzin. Probably born in the beginning of the 1760s. From c. 1780 contributed articles to various Russian journals. Studies at Moscow, living there until 1791, when moved to St.Petersburg. In many works he showed his inclination to mysticism. Author…
PETER, Friedrich A. Leh, Ladakh 1904 — 1988. Swiss Priest and Tibetan Scholar. Son of Friedrich E. Peter (d. 1945), who was Herrnhutian Bishop in Ladakh. Himself originally an architect, but soon turned to theology and became a priest. In 1930 returned to Ladakh and worked at the mission station…