ROUSSEAU, Pierre Édouard Léon (pseudonym Pierre Vellones). Paris 29.3.1889 — Paris 17.7.1939. French Physician, Composer and Painter. Son of a physician. Educated at Collège Stanislas. Studied medicine, from 1914 physician in the army. After 1926 seriously ill (multiple myeloma). He was rather noted composer with wide production of different genres (including…
ROSSILLON, Pierre. La Biolle (Savoie) 22.9.1874 — Visakhapatnam 22.3.1947. S.F.S. French Catholic Missionary in India. In 1898 ordained priest of Missionariesof St. Francis de Sales d’Annecy and sent to India. Worked in Visakhapatnam (Vizagapatam). From 1919 Titular Bishop of Epiphania in Cilicia, 1926-47 Bishop of Visakhapatnam. Publications: “Moeurs et Coutumes du…
ROSSET, Carl Wilhelm. Freiburg i. Br. 24.4.1851 — Duderstadt near Göttingen 18.6.1923. German Merchant, Adventurer and Collector. In 1874-76 travelled in Africa, in 1881 in the Near East. In 1881 also participated in Riebeck expedition to Socotra, 1884 to Ceylon. In 1885 he spent two months in the Maldives, stayed…
ROSS, Alan Strode Campbell. 1.2.1907 — Birmingham 23.9.1980. British Linguist. Son of Archibald Campbell Carne Ross of Penzance and Millicent Strode Cobham. Educated at Malvern College and Christ College, Brecon. From 1925 studies at Balliol College, Oxford, started with astronomy, but soon moved to English. B.A. 1929 Oxford, M.A. Birmingham. From…
ROSS, Aileen Dansken. Montreal 3.6.1902 — Montreal (?) 22.10.1995. Canadian Sociologist. Born of a wealthy family, daughter of John Wardrop Ross (1870–1946) and Gertrude Emma Holland. Studies at London School of Economics (B.Sc. 1939) and University of Chicago (M.A. 1941). Ph.D. 1951 Chicago (diss. on Anglo-French relations in Canada). In…
ROSNER, Victor. Rangoon, Burma (?) 1911 — 1985. S.J. Father. Catholic Missionary in India. Son of Charles Alexander Rosner and Muriel Kate Ballantine. Worked in Jashpur, M.Pr., from 1960 at St. Xavier’s School in Doranda, Ranchi. In 1964 had been 20 years in India. Ph.D., diss. on Munda witchcraft. Publications: “Venom…
ROSITZKE, Harry August. Brooklyn, N.Y. 25.2.1911 — Warrenton, VA 4.11.2002.U.S. Linguist. Studied at Union College in Schenectady, NY, A.B. 1931, then at Harvard, Ph.D. 1935 in Germanic philology. In 1935-36 studied phonetics at Hamburg, then taught English at Harvard, University of Omaha, and University of Rochester. In WW II from…
ROSE, Eugen. Barmen, Rheinland 4.7.1909 — Erkrath in Ruhrgebiet 5.8.2003. German Priest, former Student of Indology. Son of Walter Rose (d. 1918) and Caroline Schneider. From 1929 studied Theology and Indology at Marburg, Königsberg und Bonn. Ph.D. 1933 Bonn. Ordained 1934, worked as vicar in Deutz, but soon dismissed as…
RÖSSING, Hans. Duisburg 13.12.1929 — 7.5.2001 (when 71). German Linguist (Celtologist). Son of an engineer. Educated in Duisburg, Homberg and Weilburg. Then studies at Marburg from 1950, Ph.D. there 1958. From 1961 Assistant at Marburg. PD Marburg 1969, from 1971 Professor of comparative linguistics at Marburg, retired 1995. Married Monika…