KEIPER, Philipp

KEIPER, Philipp. Otterberg, Kaiserslauten 15.3.1855 — Regensburg 21.10.1927. German Teacher and Philologist. Studied classics and Iranian (Spiegel). Ph.D. 1877 Erlangen. Gymnasium teacher in Erlangen, Ludwigshafen and Zweibrücken. Publications: Diss. Die Perser des Aeschylos: als Quelle für altpersische Altertumskunde nebst Erklärung der darin vorkommenden altpersischen Eigennamen. 114 p. Erlangen 1877. – “Die…

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KAMMENHUBER, Annelies

KAMMENHUBER, Annelies. Hamburg 19.3.1922 — Munich 14.12.1995. German Linguist and Hittite Scholar. Professor in Munich. Daughter of Georg Kammenhuber, a master locksmith, and Maria Hawranek, a Roman Catholic family. Grew up in Hamburg. Studied at Hamburg English, Romance, Latin, Indology, IE linguistics and philosophy in 1940-50 (delayed by the war),…

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KAHANE, Reuven

KAHANE, Reuven. Beit Alfa (kibbutz) 1931 — Jerusalem 2003. Israeli Sociologist. Ph.D. 1970 Berkeley. Lecturer, then Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Married Orna Smirin, at least one son. Publications: Diss. Higher Education and Integrative Entrepreneurship: The Case of India. 1970. – The problem of political legitimacy…

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JOHNSON, Willard L.

JOHNSON, Willard Lyon. Des Moines, Iowa 30.5.1939 — Pauma Valley, Calif. 29.12.2006. U.S. Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Son of the elder W. L. Johnson and Margerie Elta Hackenberg. Studies at Oberlin College (B.A. 1961) and University of Wisconsin in Madison (M.A. 1966), Ph.D. 1972 there in Indian Languages and…

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IVES, Edward

IVES, Edward. 1719 — Bath 25.9.1786. British Physician and Traveller. In 1744-46 served as navy surgeon in the Mediterranean and after a while in England in 1753-57 in the flag ship of Vice-admiral Charles Watson, commander-in-chief in the East Indies. After Admiral’s death (1757), and himself rather unwell, returned to…

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HYART, Charles

HYART, Charles. 1913 — 2004. Belgian Philologist. Studies at Liège (also Sanskrit with Fohalle). Taught Russian at Liège. Publications: Les contes de l’Inde. Brussels 1944. – “Le poème Nal’ i Damajanti de V. A. Zukovskij et l’original hindou”, Annuaire de l’Institut de philologie et d’histoire orientales et slaves 12 (= Mélanges…

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HUTCHISON, John

HUTCHISON, John. Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1848 — Chamba 24.7.1936 (when 88). British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Peter Hutchinson and Anne Mcghie. Studied medicine in Edinburgh. Medical missionary of the Church of Scotland in the Punjab. Graduated in 1871 and left for India, where he spent the rest of his…

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HUNTINGTON, Ellsworth

HUNTINGTON, Ellsworth. Galesburg, Illinois 16.9.1876 — New Haven 17.10.1947. U.S. Geographer and Central Asian Explorer. Graduated from Beloit College 1897. M.A. 1902 Harvard. Ph.D. 1909 Yale. He taught at Euphrates College, Turkey (1897-1901), then accompanied the Pumpelly (1903) and Barrett (1905-1906) expeditions to Central Asia, in 1909 led an expedition…

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HÜBSCHMANNOVÁ, Milena

HÜBSCHMANNOVÁ, Milena. Prague 10.6.1933 — Kameeldrift, South Africa 8.9.2005. Czech Indologist and Romani scholar. After school in Prague studied from 1951 Bengali and Hindi-Urdu at Prague. In 1953 met some Romanis and as going to India was not generally allowed in the communist country turned to Romani studies. Graduated 1956…

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HUDSON, D. Dennis

HUDSON, Dean Dennis. San Bernardino, Calif. 16.2.1938 — Northampton, Mass. 10.12.2006. U.S. Scholar of South Indian Religion. Son of Dean Bradshaw Hudson (1902–1992) and Lisle McClellan. Ph.D. 1970 Claremont, California. From 1970 Professor of World Religions at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., retired as Professor in 2000. He made a…

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