TAYLER, William. 8.4.1808 — St.Leonards 8.3.1892. British Civil Servant in India. Son of officer Archdale Wilson Tayler (1759–1814) and Frances Eliza Hall (1767–1845). In India 1829-67, 1830 Assistant Commissioner in Cuttack, then served in Bengal. From 1855 Commissioner of Patna. He foresaw the 1857 uprising and did his best during…
SELKIRK, James. 1??? — 1880. Rev. British Missionary in Sri Lanka. In 1826-39 missionary of Church Missionary Society in Ceylon. Back in the U.K. Curate of Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire (1839/48). Married, his wife died in 1876. In his 1844 book he shows interest in the culture, customs, and traditions of…
SCERRATO, Umberto. 4.11.1928 — 19.2.2004. Italian Archaeologist and Art Historian. Taught at Naples. Worked on Islamic and Iranian regions, alo participated in Swat excavations. To his memory is dedicated the Museo Orientale Umberto Scerrato in Naples, opened in 2012. Publications: Arte islamica a Napoli. 16+208 p. Napoli 1968; other writings…
SADOC, Lemuel. 1??? — ????. Student of Indian Thought in Germany. M.A. Ph.D. 1924 Frankfurt. Then Professor at St.Stephen’s College in Delhi (1926). In the 1930s taught English, French and German at Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad. He joined American Oriental Society in 1926 – perhaps he was American…
ROST, Ernest Reinhold. Ealing, London 22.8.1872 — Putney, London 23.6.1930. British Physician and Bauddha in Burma. Lieutenant-colonel (1915). Son of German parents, —> Ernst Reinhold Rost (1822–1896), Librarian of India Office, and Minna Laue. Educated at Highgate School and at St.Mary’s. M.R.C.S. & L.R.C.P. 1895, joined Indian Medical Service 1896.…
RIX, Helmut. Amberg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria 4.7.1926 — Colmar, Alsace 3.12.2004. German Linguist (IE and Italic). Professorin Regensburg and Freiburg. Son of a teacher, Hans Rix, and his wife Susanne. In WW II served in navy, then studies of IE, classics and history at Würzburg 1846-47, then at Heidelberg. Ph.D.…
OCHOA, Pierre Charles Olloba d’ (born P. Ch. Olloba). Bayonne 26.2.1816 — Paris 2.6.1846. French Traveller. Illegitimate son of Julie Belles. Educated in Bordeaux. Employed by a shipping company as clerk-trader he visited South India (Madras and Pondichéry) in 1835-36 and now developed an interest in Indian languages and literature. In 1839…
O’BRIEN, Paul Wilfred. 23.5.1908 — 9.2.2001. S.J. U.S. Missionary and Buddhist Scholar. Catholic Priest. From California, joined S.J. in 1925, ordained priest 1938. First went to China as missionary in 1932, then returned for studies. Ph.D. 1941 University of California, Berkeley. From 1945 Superior of Californian Jesuits in China. In…
NEUMANN, Michael. 1??? — ????. Austrian Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1927 Vienna. Publications: Diss. Der Vṛtra-Kampf in der indischen Literatur. Manuscript, Vienna 1927. Sources: diss. in Janert.
NEUMANN, Käthe. Berlin 14.7.1903 — Emmerich am Rhein 14.8.1989. German Scholar of Religion and former Student of Indology. Daughter of Otto Neumann and his wife Minna. Studies of Germanistics and Indology at Greifswald and Berlin, then comparative religion at Marburg. Ph.D. 1933 Marburg (under Nobel). From 1937 curator in charge…