ŚMIESZEK, Antoni Józef. 22.5.1881 — 1943. Polish Oriental Scholar. Ph.D. 1905 Cracow. Further studies at Munich, Berlin and London. From 1921 Assistant Professor at Poznań, 1922 eo. and 1925 ord. of Ancient Near East and Sanskrit, but in 1935 the Minister of Education decided to put an end to Oriental…
SMET, Richard V. de. Montignies-sur-Sambre near Charleroi 16.4.1916 — Brussels 2.3.1997. Father. S.J. Belgian Missionary and Indologist. Son of Jules de Smet and Marie Compère. Educated in Charleroi. Joined S.J. in 1934, then studied theology in Belgium. Came to India in 1946 as a Jesuit student, studied Theology and then…
ŠMELHAUS, Stanislav. Karlín near Prague 17.11.1887 — Prague 20.9.1959. Czechoslovakian Physician interested in Indology. Studied medicine and philology at Charles University in Prague, Indology under Zubatý, Ph.D. there 1924/25. Dr.med. Then Professor of Odontology and Orientalist. Publications: Diss. O původu jazyka Malajálam a o jeho poměru k sanskrty. Prague 1924/25…
SŁUSZKIEWICZ, Eugeniusz Leonard. Jarosław in South-Eastern Poland 6.11.1901 — Warsaw 28.8.1981. Polish Indologist and Armenologist. Professor in Warsaw. Son of Franciszek Słuszkiewicz (1875–1944), a gymnasium teacher, and Severyna Solon (d. 1904). Educated at gymnasium in Bochnia. Studied from 1919 at Cracow classical philology, Slavistics, Germanic and IE linguistics, learnt Sanskrit…
SLOTTY, Friedrich Karl. Brieg, Bez. Breslau (now Brzeg in Poland) 19.10.1881 — Jena 23.12.1963. German (East) IE Scholar. After school in Brieg, studies of Classics and Comparative Linguistics (including Sanskrit) at Greifswald, Breslau and Jena (i.al. under Cappeller and Delbrück). Ph.D. 1905 Jena (diss. on Latin). Worked as schoolteacher in…
SLIJEPČEVIĆ, Pero. Samobor near Gacka in Herzegovina 12.6.1888 — Belgrade 13.12.1964. Yugoslavian (Serbian) Author and Linguist. Educated in Mostar. Studies of German at Geneva and Fribourg in Switzerland. Ph.D. 1920 Fribourg. Professor of Germanistics at Sarajevo, after WW II at Belgrade. Publications: Diss. Buddhismus in der Deutschen Literatur. 4+127 p.…
SLEEMAN, William Henry. Stratton, Cornwall 18.8.1788 — at sea 10/25.2.1856. Sir. British Colonial Officer and Administrator in India. Son of yeoman Philip Sleeman and Mary Spray, a family of Cornish gentry. He lost his father in 1798 (or 1802?), mother 1818. In 1809 joined the Bengal Army as infantry cadet,…
SLÁDEČEK, Bohumil. Dobrovice, Central Bohemia 29.11.1883 — Prague 30.12.1965. Czech Teacher and former Student of IE Linguistics. Studied at Charles University in Prague under Zubatý, Ph.D. there 1917/18. Worked as gymnasium professor. Married Marie (d. 1986), at least one daughter. Publications: Diss. Posouvání přizvuku při elisi a konsonanisaci přízvučných vokálů…
SKURZAK, Ludwik. Cieszanów near Rzeszów 18.11.1900 — Wrocław 26.2.1979. Polish Indologist. Born in a farmer family. Studied at the Jan Kazimir University in Lwów (L’viv, under Stasiak), M.A. 1932. From 1933 further studies of Indology in Paris, at É.P.H.É. and Collège de France under Renou, Przyluski and J. Bloch. 1937…
SKRINE, Francis Henry Bennett. Cahir, county Tipperary 23.12.1847 — Les Bosquets, Aix-en-Provence 8.12.1933. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Clarmont Skrine (1820–1886), a retired officer in Wimbledon, and Mary Ann Auchmuty Bennett. Educated at Blackheath School; entered the I.C.S. 1868, served in Bengal and Bihar. In the 1880s…