CARSTAIRS, George. Glasgow 11.2.1880 — 26.4.1948. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Rev. George Lindley Carstairs (1839–1916) and Helen Baird Morrison, educated at Albany Academy. Graduated M.A. from Glasgow University in 1901. From 1907 missionary of Church of Scotland in Alwar, Rajasthan, later also in other places After…
CARDONA, Giorgio Raimondo. Rome 7.1.1943 — Rome 14.8.1988. Italian Linguist. Professor in Rome. Son of Giacinto Cardona. Studied at La Sapienza in Rome. From 1968 Assistant and 1980-88 ord. Professor of Linguistics at La Sapienza. A specialist of sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics. Married Miss Fiore, one son. Publications: “Per una etimologia di Toc.…
CAMPBELL, Donald. Barbreck, Argyll 1751 — Hutton, Essex 5.6.1804. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer. Son of an E.I.C. officer, politically a Hanoverian family. A cavalry officer (captain), travelled to India via Venice, Aleppo, Baghdad, Bushire, and Bombay. On way to Madras he was shipwrecked and captured by the soldiers of Hyder…
CALMEYER, Peter. Halle 5.9.1930 — Berlin 22.11.1995. German Archaeologist and Iranian Scholar. Son of Hans Georg Calmeyer (1903–1972), an attorney-at-law, and his wife Ruth, from 1932 grew up in Osnabrück. After matriculation from Osnabrück studied from 1950 classical archaeology at Münster and Munich, 1954-55 in Copenhagen, from 1955 Near Eastern…
BUSSON, Andrée (née Dérouet). Paris 25.2.1910 — Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) 9.12.1985. Mme. French Art Historian. Joined Société asiatique in 1949. In 1978 in Paris. In 2019 described as “licenciée ès lettres, chargée de mission au Musée Guimet”. Married 1930 Dr. André Busson (1902–1968), at least one son. Publications: “Les fouilles françaises dans…
BURTON-PAGE, John Garrard. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex 19.9.1921 — Church Knowle, Dorset 13.6.2005. British Indologist (Sanskrit and Hindi Scholar and Historian). Music studies (horn) at Royal College of Music were interrupted after one term through war service in India and Burma, learned now Hindi and Nepali and after war studied from 1946 Sanskrit…
BURKE, Marie Louise (Sister Gargi, Pravrajika Prajnanaprana). 23.6.1911 — San Francisco 20.1.2004. U.S. Author and Devotee of Ramakrishna Order. Introduced to the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda movement in 1948 by Swami Ashokananda (1893–1969) in California. Took took her vows of Brahmacharya in 1974 in India. Living at the convent of Vedanta Society of Northern…
BUCCA, Salvador (Salvatore Bucca). Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto near Messina in Sicily 30.10.1920 — Buenos Aires 30.12.2005. Argentinian (Italian-born) Linguist interested in the Upanishads. Born in Sicily, studied at Pisa (graduated in classics 1944), then collaborator in the Lexicon Etruscum in Florence, moved to Argentina in 1948. Taught classics and Sanskrit…
BRUNNER-LACHAUX, Hélène (née H. Lachaux). L’Hérault 20.5.1920 — Lausanne 27.3.2005. French Indologist. Studied first mathematics and physics, CAPES 1942, and taught them at school in 1942-62, first in France, then 1951-53 Berchtesgaden, 1953-55 Addis Abeba and 1955-62 at Pondichéry French lycée. Now became interested in Śaivism and joined Filliozat’s Śaivasiddhānta team. Also…