GODDEN, Gertrude Mary. Surbiton, Surrey 17.7.1867 — Burgess Hill, Sussex 15.2.1947. British Anthropological Writer. Daughter of William and Mary Godden. Roman Catholic. Unmarried. She was an armchair anthropologist who never visited India. A book on Nagas and other North-East Indian peoples remained as manuscript. Publications: “Naga and Other Frontier Tribes of…
GIROLAMO DA SANTO STEFANO. 14?? — 15??. Italian (Genoan) Merchant and Traveller. Son of n.n. and Susanna Mainieri. In 1494 he left Genoa, together with Girolamo Adorno, for the East on a commercial venture. They went via Cairo to the Red Sea and from Aden to Bengal, then to Ceylon and Coromandel coast…
GIMBUTAS, Marija (Lith. Marija Gimbutienė, born Marija Birutė Alseikaitė). Vilnius 23.1.1921 — Los Angeles 2.2.1994. Lithuanian Archaeologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Los Angeles. Daughter of two physicians, Danielius Alseika (1881–1936) and Veronika Janulaitytė-Alseikienė (1883–1971). In 1931 the family moved to Kaunas and parents divorced. After gymnasium in Kaunas studied linguistics…
GILLINGS, James. Norwich, Norfolk 15.11.1822 — 1897. Rev. BritishMethodist Missionary in Sri Lanka. In 1844-50 Superintendent of English school in Batticaloa, then returned on health reasons to the U.K. Retired and moved to Coonoor (Kuṉṉūr) in South India, or rather spent 18 years in the U.K. and only then came…
GILLE, Albert. 1878 — 1950. Father. S.J. Belgian Missionary in India 1904-25. In 1929 A. Gille of S.J. was in Edinburgh. In the 1930s A. Gille from Belgium was missionary in Burundi. Publications: “Notes on Some Native Medicines from Southern India”, Man 6, 1906, 182-187. – A Record of the Inscriptions at the…
GILBERT, William Harlen, Jr. Covington, co. Kenton, Kentucky 28.7.1904 — Silverspring, co. Montgomery, Maryland 24.3.1988. U.S. Anthropologist. Son of W. H. Gilbert, Sr. (1869–1943) and Martha Virginia Coopes. Ph.D. 1935 Chicago (diss. on Cherokees). In 1936-37 taught Sociology at Auburn University. Later working in Library of Congress. Publications: Peoples of India.…
GIELECKI, Wojciech Marceli. Krzeszowice, Lesser Poland 23.10.1876 — Cracow 11.9.1957. Polish Librarian and Classical Scholar. Studies at Cracow, Ph.D. 1901. Librarian in Cracow University. Married. Publications: Pomysły filozoficzne w hymnach Rig-Vedy. 102 p. Cracow 1910, 152 p. Cracow 1911. – Unrelevant publications. Sources: *K. Tatarowicz, Rocz. Bibl. 1958, 593f.; stray notes in Internet.
GERSHEVITCH, Ilya (Il’ja Arkad‘evič Gerševič). Zürich 24.10.1914 — Cambridge 11.4.2001. Russian Iranian Scholar in the U.K. Professor in Cambridge. Born in Switzerland of Russian parents, Arkadi Gerševič and Mila Mirova, a pianist, who came from Smolensk. They were fleeing the outbreak of WW I as the father was then studying medicine…
GERMANN, Wilhelm Ferdinand. Gardelegen, Pomerania 3.4.1840 — Meiningen 7.2.1902. German Missionary in India. Worked briefly in Tamilnadu, but got a lasting interest in the history of mission. Studied theology at Erlangen, in 1864 joined the Lutheran Leipzig Mission. Ordained priest in 1865 and left for Madras. Returning in 1867 he…
GELL, Alfred Antony Francis (born Antony Francis Gell). 12.6.1945 — 28.1.1997. British Social Anthropologist. Son of Professor Philip Gell (1914–2001), an Immunologist, and his wife Susan. Studies at Trinity College, Cambridge (M.Phil. under E. Leach) and London School of Economics (Ph.D. 1973 under R. Firth). From 1972 taught as lecturer at…