- CABATON, Antoine
CABATON, Antoine. Nérondes (Cher) 11.12.1863 — Vannes 25.11.1942. French Physician and a Scholar of South-East Asia and Indonesia. Studies of pharmacy, ...
- CABRAL, João
CABRAL, João. Cerolico/Guarda 1599/1601 — Goa 4.7.1669. S.J. Portuguese Missionary in India and Ladakh. Jesuit since 1619, in 1624 to India. In 1626 ...
- CABRAL, Pedro Álvarez
CABRAL, Pedro Álvarez. Belmonte, Portugal 1467/68 — Santarém? 1520. Portuguese Sailor. Son of a nobleman, Fernão C., himself in high positions at the ...
- CACELLA, Estevão
CACELLA, Estevão. Aviz/Evora 1585 — Shigatse 6.3.1630. S.J. Portuguese Missionary in India and Ladakh. Joined the S.J. in 1604, left for India in ...
- CADELL, Sir Patrick
CADELL, Sir Patrick. 6.5.1871 — Frilford Heath, Abingdon 22.11.1961 (when 90). British Historian of Colonial India. Son of colonel Thomas C. Educated at ...
- CAIN, John
CAIN, John. 18?? — 17.3.1917. Rev. British Missionary in India. Arrived in India in 1869, from 1874 in Dummagudem in Godavari dt. Married ...
- CAIX DE SAINT-AYMOUR, Amédée, vicomte de
CAIX DE SAINT-AYMOUR, Amédée, vicomte de. Senlis, Oise 26.4.1843 — Paris ?.12.1921. French Archaeologist and Historian with early interest ...
- CALAND, Willem
CALAND, Willem. Brielle (Den Briel), Zuid Holland 27.8.1859 — Utrecht 23.3. 1932. Dutch Indologist. Professor in Utrecht. Son of the water ...
- CALDWELL, Robert
CALDWELL, Robert. Antrim, Ireland 7.5.1814 — Kodaikanal, India 28.8.1891. British (Scots) Missionary and Indologist. Born in Ireland of poor Scots parents, ...
- CALLE, Pedro Urbano de la
CALLE, Pedro Urbano de la —> GONZÁLES DE LA CALLE, P. U.
- CALMBERG, Ernst Philipp Ludwig
CALMBERG, Ernst Philipp Ludwig. Wasungen/Sachsen-Meiningen 12.4.1794 — Hamburg 29.1.1851. German Schoolteacher and Philologist. Son of ...
- CALMETTE, Jean
CALMETTE, Jean. Rodez, Aveyron 5.5.1692 (not 93) — Chickballapur, South India ?.2.1740 (or 1739?). S.J. French Missionary and a Pioneer of ...
- CAMERON, George Glenn
CAMERON, George Glenn. Washington 30.7.1905 — Ann Arbor 14.9.1979. U.S. Historian of ancient Iran. Professor in Ann Arbor. Educated in 1923-25 at Washington ...
- CAMÕES, Luís Vaz de
CAMÕES, Luís Vaz de. Coimbra 1524/25 — Lisbon 10.6.1580. Portuguese Poet. Born in a poor Galician noble family, lived in Lisbon. 1547-50 in ...
- CAMPBELL, A
CAMPBELL, A. 1804 — 1874. British (Scots) Physician in India. First name variously given as Andrew, Archibald and Arthur. Dr.med. British Resident in ...
- CAMPBELL, Alexander Duncan
CAMPBELL, Alexander Duncan. 1786 — 1857. British (Scots) Civil Servant in India, interested in Telugu. Served at Madras Civil Service, in 1806 collector ...
- CAMPBELL, Andrew
CAMPBELL, Andrew. Boltan, Lancashire 1845 — Pokharia 8.7.1919. Rev. British (Scots) Missionary in Chota Nagpur, a Santali Scholar. Dr.div. Served the Santal Mission ...
- CAMPBELL, George
CAMPBELL, George. 22.3.1824 — Cairo 18.2.1892. Sir. British (Scots) Civil Servant in India, interested in Ethnology. Son of Sir George C. (1778–1854) of ...
- CAMPBELL, James Macnabb
CAMPBELL, James Macnabb. Partick, Lanarkshire 4.10.1846 — 26.5.1903. Sir. British (Scots) Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. John Mcleod C. (D.D.). Educated at Glasgow ...
- CAMPBELL, William Howard
CAMPBELL, William Howard. Derry, Ireland 20.9.1859 — Bourdighera, Italy 18.2.1910. Rev. British (Irish or Scots?) Missionary in India. Graduated from Edinburgh University 1880.
- CANDY, Thomas
CANDY, Thomas. 13.12.1804 — Mahabaleswar 26.2.1877. British Colonial Officer, Teacher and Marathi Scholar in India. Born in England, studies at Magdalene College, Oxford. ...
- CANNING, Hugh
CANNING, Hugh. 18?? — 23.12.1927. Irishman? M.A. From 1914 Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at Trinity College in Dublin (1924).
- CANNIZZARO, Francesco Adolfo
CANNIZZARO, Francesco Adolfo. Messina 13.7.1867 — Rome 24.4.1914. Italian Lawyer and autodidact Iranian Scholar. Studied law in Rome, also attended De Gubernatis’ Sanskrit ...
- CAPPELLER, Carl Johann Wilhelm
CAPPELLER, Carl Johann Wilhelm. Alexkehmen, Ostpreussen 22.3.1840 — Jena 17.7.1925. German Indologist. Professor in Jena. Son of an estate owner from ...
- CAPPIERI, Mario
CAPPIERI, Mario. 1894 — 1979. Italian Anthropologist. Professor of Anthropology in Naples.
Publications: wrote on the ...
- CARDOSO, Joaquim Lúcio, Filho
CARDOSO, Joaquim Lúcio, Filho. Curvelo, Est. de Minas Gerais 13.8.1913 — Rio de Janeiro ...
- CAREY, Eustace
CAREY, Eustace. Paulerspury, Northamptonshire 22.3.1791 — 19.7.1855. British Missionary in India. Son of Thomas C., nephew of —> William C. Educated at Bristol ...
- CAREY, Felix
CAREY, Felix. 1786 — Serampur 10.11.1822. British Missionary. Son of —> W. Carey. Came to India with his parents, and assisted his father ...
- CAREY, William
CAREY, William. Paulerspury, Northamptonshire 17.8.1761 — Serampur 9.6.1834. British Missionary and Pioneer of Indology, in India 1794–1834. Son of a village ...
- CARL, Jean
CARL, Jean. 1900 — London 3.4.1941. French Architect and Archeologist. In the 1920s he was in Maison Franco-Japonais in Tokyo, then ...
- CARLLEYLE, Archibald Campbell L.
CARLLEYLE, Archibald Campbell L. (himself wrote Carleyle) 1836? — 1897?. British Archaeologist. Came to India as tutor to the sons of the raja ...
- CARNOY, Albert Joseph
CARNOY, Albert Joseph. Louvain 7.11.1878 — Louvain 12.1.1961. Belgian Linguist. Professor in Louvain. Son of a Professor of Philosophy. Studied at ...
- CAROE, Olaf Kirkpatrick
CAROE, Olaf Kirkpatrick. London 15.11.1892 — Steyning, Sussex 29.11.1981. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Son of the architect William Douglas C. and ...
- CARPANI, Enrico Gerardo
CARPANI, Enrico Gerardo. 1??? — 19??. Italian Scholar of Religion. Ph.D. Fl. 1934 and still 1950, apparently in Bologna.
- CARPENTER, Joseph Estlin
CARPENTER, Joseph Estlin. Ripley, Survey 5.10.1844 — 2.6.1927. British Indologist (Pāli scholar), Theologian ...
- CARR, Mark William
CARR, Mark William. 12.2.1833 — on Malabar coast 15.1.1871. British Colonial Officer in South India. Son of Sir William Carr. From 1862 Assistant ...
- CARRÉ, Barthélémy
CARRÉ, Barthélémy. c. 1636 — after 1699. Abbé. French Traveller. Of Blois, educated by Jesuits. From 1662 served in the navy, apparently as ...
- CARTELLIERI, Wilhelm
CARTELLIERI, Wilhelm. Eger (in Bohemia, now Cheb) 23.6.1860 — Innsbruck 29.5.1908. Austrian Indologist. Professor in Innsbruck. Son of Paul C. (1807–1881, ...
- CARTER, Charles Henry
CARTER, Charles Henry. 29.10.1828 — New Zealand 6.7.1914. Rev. Baptist Missionary in Ceylon. Son of Thomas Carter, a stonemason, and Anne Thomson, raised ...
- CARUS, Paul
CARUS, Paul. Ilsenburg am Harz 18.7.1852 — La Salle, Ill. 11.2.1919. German Philosopher and Scholar of Comparative Religion in the U.S.A. School in ...
- CARVALHO, Jorge
CARVALHO, Jorge. fl. 1554. Indian living in Lisbon.
Publications: Translated a small Catechism from ...
- CASAL, Jean-Marie
CASAL, Jean-Marie. Troyes 30.6.1905 — Antibes 12.12.1977. French Archaeologist. Husband of —> G. Casal. After studies of Law he started a ...
- CASARTELLI, Louis Charles
CASARTELLI, Louis Charles. Manchester 14.11.1852 — Salford 18.1.1925. Right Rev. British (of Italian origin) Iranian Scholar and Catholic Bishop. Son of ...
- CASSIANO BELIGATTI
CASSIANO BELIGATTI, hybrid for —> CASSIANO DA MACERATA (Giovanni Beligatti).
- CASSIANO DA MACERATA (Giovanni Beligatti)
CASSIANO DA MACERATA (Giovanni Beligatti). Macerata 1708 — Macerata 1791. Italian Missionary and a Pioneer of Indology, in India and Tibet ...
- CASTANHEDA, Fernão Lopes de
CASTANHEDA, Fernão Lopes de. Santarem c. 1500 — Coimbra 23.3. or 6.6.1559. Portuguese Historian of Colonial India. Illegitimate son of Lopo Fernandez de ...
- CAUTLEY, Proby Thomas
CAUTLEY, Proby Thomas. Roydon, Suffolk 3.1.1802 — Sydenham, Kent 25.1.1871. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of the rev. Thomas C. One ...
- CHALMERS, Robert
CHALMERS, Robert (1919 first baron of Chalmers of Northiam). London 18.8.1858 — 17.11.1938. Lord. British (Scots) Civil Servant and Indologist (Pāli ...
- CHAMBERS, Robert
CHAMBERS, Robert. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1737 — Paris 9.5.1803. Sir. British Colonial Official and a Pioneer of Indology. Son of Robert Ch., an ...
- CHAMBERS, William
CHAMBERS, William. 1748 — 1793. British Colonial Official and a Pioneer of Indology. Son of Robert Ch., brother of —> R. Ch. Educated ...
- CHANDLER, John Scudder
CHANDLER, John Scudder. Madura, South India 12.4.1849 — Kodaikanal, South India 19.6.1934. U.S. Missionary and Tamil scholar. Son of John Eddy ...
- CHANNING, Eva
CHANNING, Eva. 18?? — 1???. U.S. Student of Indology. Born in a wealthy Boston family, studied at Boston University, graduated 1877. Then studied in Paris ...
- CHANTRAINE, Pierre
CHANTRAINE, Pierre. Lille 15.9.1899 — Paris 30.6.1974. French Classical (Greek) Scholar and Linguist interested in India. Professor in Paris. Educated in Paris (Meillet, ...
- CHAPMAN, Isham J
CHAPMAN, Isham J. 1??? — 1???. British Colonial Officer in Ceylon. Captain of Royal Artillery. Relatives in I.C.S. (see Buckland). One Captain Isham ...
- CHARDIN, Jean-Baptiste (Sir John Chardin)
CHARDIN, Jean-Baptiste (Sir John Chardin). Paris 16.11.1643 — London 5.1.1713. French Huguenot Jeweller and Traveller. Sent to the east by his father, the ...
- CHARENCEY, Charles-Félix-Hyacinthe, comte de
CHARENCEY, Charles-Félix-Hyacinthe, comte de. Paris 8.11.1832 — Saint-Maurice-lès-Charencey 12.3.1916. French Politician and lay Philologist, Linguist and Ethnologist. Son of politician Charles-Léonce, ...
- CHARPENTIER, Jarl Hellen Robert Toussaint
CHARPENTIER, Jarl Hellen Robert Toussaint. Nya Varvet near Gothenburg 17.12.1884 — Uppsala 5.7.1935. Swedish Indologist. Professor in Uppsala. Son of Claës ...
- CHAVANNES, Emanuel-Édouard
CHAVANNES, Emanuel-Édouard. Lyon 5.10.1865 — Paris 29.1.1918. French Sinologist and Buddhist Scholar. Born ...
- CHAVÉE, Honoré-Joseph
CHAVÉE, Honoré-Joseph. Namur 3.6.1815 — Paris 15.7.1877. Belgian Linguist in Paris, also interested in Sanskrit and IE. Originally a Catholic priest, from 1844 ...
- CHEVALIER, Jean-Baptiste
CHEVALIER, Jean-Baptiste. Blois 1729 — Blois 30.4.1789. French Traveller in India and Tibet. In French colonial service left for Bengal in 1752, in ...
- CHÉZY, Antoine Léonard de
CHÉZY, Antoine Léonard de. Neuilly 15.1.1773 (1775?) — Paris 3.9. (or 31.8.) 1832. French Pioneer of Indology. the first Professor of Sanskrit in Paris. Born ...
- CHIEFALÀ, Nicol
CHIEFALÀ, Nicola —> KEPHALA, Nikolaos.
- CHILDE, Vere Gordon
CHILDE, Vere Gordon. Sydney 14.4.1892 — Blacjheath, NSW, Australia 19.10.1957. Australian Archaeologist and Historian in the U.K. Son of ...
- CHILDERS, Robert Cesar
CHILDERS, Robert Cesar. Nice 1838 — London 25.7.1876. British Indologist (Pāli scholar). Born in South France as the son of Charles ...
- CHRISTENSEN, Arthur Emanuel
CHRISTENSEN, Arthur Emanuel. Copenhagen 9.1.1875 — Copenhagen 31.3.1945. Danish Iranian Scholar. Professor in Copenhagen. Son of a post official, matriculated in Copenhagen 1893. ...
- CHRISTIAN, John
CHRISTIAN, John. 18?? — 1???. British? Keay says that JC wrote hymns in Hindi, but died c. 1883. In 1890 in Tirhut.
- CIARDI-DUPRÉ, Giuseppe
CIARDI-DUPRÉ, Giuseppe. Firenze 13.9.1875 — 19??. Italian Linguist. Docent of IE comparative grammar at the R. Istituto di Studi Superiori in ...
- CIMMINO, Francesco
CIMMINO, Francesco. Naples 6.1.1862 — Naples 2.3.1939. Italian Indologist and Poet. Born and apparently spent his whole life in Naples. Graduated ...
- CIOFFI, Salvatore (U Lokanatha Thera)
CIOFFI, Salvatore (U Lokanatha Thera). Cervinara 1897 — Maymyo 25.5.1966. Italian Bauddha, lived as Buddhist Monk in Burma. Son of Napoletan parents, the ...
- CLARK, Edward Winter
CLARK, Edward Winter. Dutchess County NY 25.2.1830 — St. Augustine, Florida 13.5.1913. U.S. Missionary and Tibeto-Burman (Naga) Scholar. Graduated from Brown University 1857, ...
- CLARK, Thomas Welbourne
CLARK, Thomas Welbourne. Ilkeston, Derbyshire 2.1.1904 — 22.12.1969. British Indologist, a Specialist of Bengali and NIA Linguistics. School in Derbyshire, from ...
- CLARK, Walter Eugene
CLARK, Walter Eugene. Digby, Nova Scotia 8.9.1881 — Vista, Calif. 30.9. 1960. U.S. Indologist. Professor at Harvard. Born in Canada, but ...
- CLAUSON, Gerard Leslie Makins
CLAUSON, Gerard Leslie Makins. 28.4.1891 — 1.5.1974. British Linguist and Central Asian, especially ...
- CLAWITER, Walter
CLAWITER, Walter. 193? — 23.11.1970. German Indologist. Ph.D. Göttingen 1958 (?). Edited Turfan texts and assisted the MSS. catalogue and dictionary ...
- CLAYTON, Albert Charles
CLAYTON, Albert Charles. 1859 — 19??. Rev. British (or U.S.?) Missionary in South India, a Tamil Scholar. In 1934 apparently still in Madras, ...
- CLEMENS A IESU
CLEMENS A IESU (lay Giovanni Jacobo Peano di Penni, often called with hybrid name Clemente Peani or Clemens Peanus). Alessandria 7.4.1731 — Mattancherry ...
- CLEMENS, ?
CLEMENS, ?. 18?? — 191?. German Iranian Scholar specializing in Avesta. Died young in the WW I.
- CLOSS, Alois
CLOSS, Alois. Neumarkt in Steiermark 27.10.1893 — 10.1.1984. Austrian Iranian Scholar. Librarian in Graz. Son of Alois Closs, a court official, and Rosa Halm, brother ...
- CLOUGH, Benjamin
CLOUGH, Benjamin. Bradford, Yorkshire 1791 — Southwark, Kent 1853. British Methodist Missionary and Pāli Scholar in Ceylon. Joined the Methodists in ...
- COCK, Jan Kornelis de
COCK, Jan Kornelis de. Vierhuizen, Ulrum 23.10.1867 — Davos 6.4.1941. Dutch Indologist. Son of an industrialist. After gymnasium in Groningen studied Dutch at ...
- CODRINGTON, Humphrey William
CODRINGTON, Humphrey William. 25.9.1879 — 1942. British Scholar of Sri Lankan History and Ethnography. Son of the rear-admiral William C., educated at Winchester ...
- CODRINGTON, Kenneth de Burgh
CODRINGTON, Kenneth de Burgh. India 5.6.1899 — 1.1.1986. British Archaeologist and Art Historian of India. Son of colonel H. ...
- CODRINGTON, Oliver
CODRINGTON, Oliver. 5.5.1837 — 1931. British Physician and Numismatist. Son of Rev. T. S. C. (Vicar of Wroughton), educated at ...
- CŒDÈS, Georges
CŒDÈS, Georges. Paris 10.8.1886 — Neuilly-sur-Seine 2.10.1969. French South-East Asian Scholar (Historian and Epigraphist). Descended from a family of Hungarian jews. Educated at ...
- COEMANS, E
COEMANS, E. 18?? — 1???. Belgian? Perhaps he is same as Émile M. Coemans of Ghent University, the author of a CŒURDOUX, Gaston-Laurent
CŒURDOUX, Gaston-Laurent. Bourges 18.10.1691— Pondichéry 15.6.1779. S.J. French Missionary priest and a pioneer of Indology in India. Joined the S.J. in ...
- COGNI, Giulio
COGNI, Giulio. Siena 10.1.1908 — 15.11.1984. Italian Author and Composer interested in religions, parapsychology and like. Living in Siena. In the 1930s he was a fascist ...
- COHEN, Sulman Samuel
COHEN, Sulman Samuel. Iraq 1895 — Sri Ramanasramam 1980. U.S. Pupil of Ramana Maharshi. Lived in India with his guru in 1936-55.
Publications: Guru Ramana. Memories and noted. 1956; Reflections on the Talks with Sri Ramana ...
- COLE, Henry
COLE, Henry. Bath 15.7.1808 — London 18.4.1882. Sir. English civil servant, designer and inventor. Educated in London. Working at government Dept. od Science and Art and ...
- COLE, Henry Hardy
COLE, Henry Hardy. 1843 — 1916. British architect and engineer officer in India. Son of —> Henry Cole. Lieutenant, then ...
- COLEBROOKE SUTHERLAND, James Charles
COLEBROOKE SUTHERLAND, James Charles. 6.11.1792 — Calcutta 1.2.1844. British Lawyer in India. Son of Andrew Sutherland (d. 1795), an officer, and Louisa Colebrooke, ...
- COLEBROOKE, Henry Thomas
COLEBROOKE, Henry Thomas. London 15.6.1765 — London 10.12.(or 18.3. or 10.4.)1837. British Pioneer of Indology. 1782-1814 in India. Third son of ...
- COLEBROOKE, Thomas Edward
COLEBROOKE, Thomas Edward. Calcutta 19.8.1813 — London 11.1.1890. Sir (4th Bart.). British Gentleman and Politician (liberal) interested in History. Son of —> H. ...
- COLES, Stephen
COLES, Stephen. 18?? — 13.9.1901. Rev. British Missionary, member of Church Mission Society in Ceylon. After Highbury Training College arrived at Ceylon as early as 1861 and until his death. Married 1860 Elizabeth ...
- COLINET, Philémon
COLINET, Philémon. Alost (Aalst) 2.3.1853 — Sleydingen 3.12.1917. Belgian Indologist, Linguist and Scholar of Religion. Professor in Louvain. Son of Felix ...
- COLLIN, August Zacharias
COLLIN, August Zacharias. Glimåkra 23.8.1833 — Göteborg 23.7.1886. Swedish School Teacher interested in Sanskrit. Son of the minister of Glimåkra Martin ...
- COLLINS, G
COLLINS, G. 18?? — Vichy 17.6.1882. French Protestant Priest and Scholar of Religion. Minister of the Huguenot congregation of Rotterdam.
Publications: translated: Tiele, Histoire comparée des anciennes religions de l’Egypte et des ...
- COLLINS, Mark
COLLINS, Mark. Brighton 28.12.1866 — 193?. British Indologist in India. Educated at Brighton Grammar School. In 1881-86 in business, then teacher at a private school ...
- COLLINS, Richard
COLLINS, Richard. Kirkburton, Yorkshire 1828 — Ibid. 30.10.1900. Rev. British Missionary in India and Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Richard C. (1794–1882), later ...
- COLLITZ, Herman
COLLITZ, Herman. Bleckede near Hannover 4.2.1855 — Baltimore 13.5.1935. German Linguist (IE and Germanic) in U.S.A. Professor in Baltimore. Son of Christian C. ...
- COMBAZ, Gisbert-Corneille-Henri-Paul
COMBAZ, Gisbert-Corneille-Henri-Paul. Anvers 23.9.1869 — Schaerbeck (Bruxelles) 18.1.1941. Belgian Art Historian and Archaeologist. Also himself a painter. Professor in Brussels. Son ...
- CONGER, George Perrigo
CONGER, George Perrigo. Genoa, N.Y. 18.5.1884 — Minneapolis 14.8.1960. U.S. Scholar of Indian Philosophy. Professor in Minneapolis. Son of Willis Nathaniel C. and ...
- CONGREVE, Harry
CONGREVE, Harry. 18?? — 1???. British Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel, of Madras Artillery (no longer in service in 1878). According to Google summary ...
- CONIO, Caterina
CONIO, Caterina. Santo Stefano al Mare 1929 — Milano 1996. Italian Indologist. Daughter of a bank director. grew up in Firenze. Graduated 1964 from ...
- CONRADY, August
CONRADY, August. Wiesbaden 28.4.1864 — Leipzig 3/4.6.1925. German Indologist and Sinologist. Professor in Leipzig. Son of the priest and church historian ...
- CONTI, Niccolò
CONTI, Niccolò (De’ C., Niccolò di Giovanni Conti di Chioggia). Chioggia near Venice c. 1395 — Chioggia (?) Summer 1469. Italian (Venetian) Traveller ...
- CONZE, Edward
CONZE, Edward (Eberhard Julius Dietrich Conze). Forest Hill (London) 8.3.1904 — 24.9.1979. British (German born) Indologist. Born in England where his ...
- COOMARASWAMY, Ananda Kentish
COOMARASWAMY, Ananda Kentish (Kumārasvāmi). Colombo 22.8. 1877 — Needham Mass. 9.9.1947. Srilankan/British Art Historian and Indologist in the U.S.A. Son of ...
- ČOP, Bojan
ČOP, Bojan. Ljubljana 23.5.1923 — Ljubljana 3.8.1994. Yugoslavian/Slovenian IE Linguist and Scholar of Tocharian. In 1941-47 studied classics and IE linguistics at Ljubljana. From 1951 Assistant, ...
- COPLESTON, Reginald Stephen
COPLESTON, Reginald Stephen. Barnes, London 26.12.1845 — 19.4.1925. Most Rev. British Priest in Ceylon and India. Son of Rev. Reginald Edward C., of ...
- CORAL-REMUSAT, Gilberte de
CORAL-REMUSAT, Gilberte de. 1903 — Lausanne 18.10.1943. Mme. French Art Historian of South and Southe-East Asia. Grandniece of —> Abel-Remusat. Visited Angkor and ...
- CORBIN, Henry
CORBIN, Henry. Paris 14.4.1903 — Paris 7.10.1978. French Philosopher, Theologian and Scholar of Iranian Religion and Islam. Born in a Protestant family, but ...
- CORDIER, Henri
CORDIER, Henri. New Orleans 8.8.1849 — Cairo, Egypt 16.3.1925. French Scholar of Asian History. Son of Erneste-Eugène C., a Savoyan working in the U.S.A. as ...
- CORDIER, Palmyr Uldéric Alexis
CORDIER, Palmyr Uldéric Alexis. Amancey (Doubs) 18.2.1871 — Besançon 5.9.1914. French Physician and Indologist, an early specialist of the Āyurveda. Born ...
- CORREIA, Gaspar
CORREIA, Gaspar. 1495/96 — Malacca or Goa 1563?. Portuguese Historian of Colonial India. In the age of 16 went to India in 1512/14. ...
- CORYAT, Thomas (Coriate, Tom)
CORYAT, Thomas (Coriate, Tom). Odcombe (Crewkerne), Somersetshire 1577? — Surat ?.12.1617. British Traveller in India. Son of the Rev. George C., Rector of ...
- COSTA DE MACEDO, José Joaquim da
COSTA DE MACEDO, José Joaquim da. Lisbon 25.4.1777 — Golegâ 15.3.1867. Portuguese Historian. Librarian, then Academician in Lisbon.
Publications: Wrote on colonial history.
Sources: several Portuguese web pages give his dates.
- COSTA, Baltasar da
COSTA, Baltasar da. 15?? — 1580. S.J. Portuguese Missionary in India and Japan. Came to the East in 1563 to work in Macao ...
- COSTA, Baltasar da
COSTA, Baltasar da. Aldeia Nova (Guarda) 1613 — on sea 21.4.1673. S.J. Portuguese Missionary in India. Joined S.J. in 1627, despite of his ...
- COSTA, Cristovão da
COSTA, Cristovão da —> ACOSTA, Cristovão d
- COTTON, G
COTTON, G. 1??? — 19??. Belgian Indologist? At the university of Liège.
Publications: “La ...
- COULSON, Michael
COULSON, Michael. 1936 — 1975. British Indologist. Educated at St.Paul’s School in London, studies at Trinity College, Oxford. D.Phil. 1966 Oxford. Then in 196?-72 Lecturer in Sanskrit at University of Edinburgh.
Publications: ...
- COURBIN, Henri
COURBIN, Henri. 1??? — . Frenchman. In 1931 teacher in a secondary school (lycée de Lyon) in Paris.
Publications: Grammaire ...
- COURT, Claude Auguste
COURT, Claude Auguste. Grasse (or Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne?) 24.9.1793 — Paris 21.1.1880. French soldier serving ...
- COURTILLIER, Gaston
COURTILLIER, Gaston. 1877 — 1933. French Indologist. Probably student of Lévi. In the 1920s he was Professor at Lycée Fustel de ...
- COUSENS, Henry
COUSENS, Henry. Paisley, Renfrewshire 13.9.1854 — Tunbridge Wells, Kent 5.11.1934. British (Scots) Archaeologist in India. Son of Henry C., a Photozincographer, ...
- COUSINS, James Henry Sproull
COUSINS, James Henry Sproull. Belfast 22.7.1873 — Madanapullee 20.2.1956. Irish author (poet and dramatist), critic and teacher. Born in a family of Huguenot ...
- COUTO, Diogo do
COUTO, Diogo do. Lisbon 1542 — Goa 10.12.1616. Portuguese Historian of Colonial India. Son of Gaspardo C. and Isabel Serrão del Castro. Educated ...
- COUVREUR, Walter
COUVREUR, Walter. 1914 — 1996. Belgian Scholar of Tocharian. Studied under Sieg at Göttingen. In Ghent as Professor of IE Linguistics, ...
- COWELL, Edward Byles
COWELL, Edward Byles. Ipswich 23.1.1826 — Cambridge 9.2.1903. British Indologist. Professor in Cambridge. In 1856-64 in India. Son of Charles C. ...
- COWGILL, Warren Crawford
COWGILL, Warren Crawford. Crangeville, Idaho 19.12.1929 — New Haven 20.6.1985. U.S. IE Linguist. Professor at Yale. Educated at Stanford (B.A. 1952 in classics, ...
- COX, Arthur Ditmas
COX, Arthur Ditmas. 21.3.1870 — 3.5.1939. British Colonial Officer in India. Major. Son of Henry William Cox, of Madras army, and Lucy Emma ...
- COX, Edmund Charles
COX, Edmund Charles. Exeter 27.2.1856 — Chiswick 11.3.1935. Sir, 15th Baronet. British Police Officer in India. Son of George William Cox (1827–1902), the ...
- COXE, William Henry
COXE, William Henry. 18?? — 18.12.1869. British Classical Scholar. The eldest son of Henry Octavius Coxe (1811–1881), the Librarian of Bodleiana. Studies Classics ...
- CRAMER, A
CRAMER, A. 1??? — 1???. Dutch priest in Ceylon in the 18th century.
Publications: Tamil translation of the Gospels according to Matthew. Colombo 1740.
Sources: Not in Dutch biogr. sources, not ...
- CRAVEN, Roy Curtis, Jr
CRAVEN, Roy Curtis, Jr. Cherokee Bluffs, Alabama 29.7.1924 — 30.5.1996. U.S. Art Historian, also painter, sculpturer and photographer. Associate Professor of Art at ...
- CRAWFURD, John
CRAWFURD, John. Islay, Hebrides 13.8.1783 — South Kensington 11.5.1868. British (Scots) Colonial Officer and South-East Asian Scholar. Son of the physician Samuel Cr., educated at ...
- CROOKE, William
CROOKE, William. Cork 6.8.1848 — 25.10.1923. Irish Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of Warren Cr., M.D., of an old ...
- CROSBY, Josiah
CROSBY, Josiah. Falmouth ?.5.1880 — 1958. Sir. British Diplomat interested in South-East Asian History. Studies at Cambridge (B.A. 1902, M.A. 1928). Came to Thailand as young ...
- CRUZ, Thome da
CRUZ, Thome da. 1??? — 15??. Portuguese Missionary? Wrote a small catechism in Portuguese and Tamil in 1554.
- CSOMA DE KŐRÖS, Alexander
CSOMA DE KŐRÖS, Alexander (Kőrösi Csoma Sándor). Kőrös, Haromszek, Transilvania (now Romania) (baptized?) 4.4.1784 (or 1787/88?) — Darjeeling 11.4.1842. Hungarian Tibetologist, ...
- CUENDET, Georges
CUENDET, Georges. Genève 5.9.1897 — 1980. Swiss Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Educated at Collège de Genève, and universities of Geneva, Basel, and Paris ...
- CUMMINGS, John
CUMMINGS, John. 29.12.1868 — 9.3.1958 (when 89). Sir. British (Scots) Civil Servant in India and Historian of Modern India. Son of Dr. James ...
- CUMMINGS, Thomas Fulton
CUMMINGS, Thomas Fulton. 1863 — 19??. British or U.S. Missionary in the Pañjab. As his works were often printed at Presbyterian Mission Press, ...
- CUMONT, Franz Valéry Marie
CUMONT, Franz Valéry Marie. Aalst 3.1.1868 — Brussels 20.8.1947. Belgian Scholar of Ancient Religions, History and Archaeology. Studies at Ghent, Bonn, Berlin, Vienna ...
- CUNHA RIVARA, J. H. da
CUNHA RIVARA, J. H. da —> RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha
- CUNNINGHAM, Alexander
CUNNINGHAM, Alexander. Westminster 23.1.1814 — Cranley Mansions, South Kensington (London) 28.11.1893. Sir. British (Scots) Colonial Officer and Archaeologist in India. The ...
- CUNNINGHAM, Joseph Davey
CUNNINGHAM, Joseph Davey. Lambeth 9.6.1812 — Umbala 28.2.1851. British (Scots) Colonial Officer and Historian in India. Elder brother of —> A.C. (A younger ...
- CUNY, Albert-Louis-Marie
CUNY, Albert-Louis-Marie. Saint-Dié (Vosges) 16.5.1869 — 21.3.1947 (when 77). French Linguist. Professor in Bordeaux. Son of Charles C. (1825–) and Euphrasie Petit-demange (1835–). ...
- ČUPR, František
ČUPR, František. Chrast, district Chrudim 11.4.1821 — Prague 29.6.1882. Czech Philosopher and Educator. Ph.D. 1845 Prague. In 1848-53 taught at Altstädter akad. Gymnasium, ...
- CURTIUS, Georg
CURTIUS, Georg. Lübeck 16.4.1820 — Hermsdorf bei Warmbrunn in Silesia (now Poland) 12.8.1885. German Indo-Europaean and Classical scholar. Son of Carl Georg C. (1771-1857; Syndikus ...
- CUST, Robert Needham
CUST, Robert Needham. Bedfordshire 24.2.1821 — 28.10.1909. British Indologist. Son of Hon. and ...
- CUTTS, Elmer Henry
CUTTS, Elmer Henry. Silver Cliff, Color. 15.3.1908 — Boston, Mass. 4.4.1960. U.S. Historian of Colonial India. Son of Elmer Henry C. and Alice ...
- CYBIKOV, Gombožab Cebekovič
CYBIKOV, Gombožab Cebekovič. Urdo-Aga, Transbaikal 20.4.1873 — Aginskoe, Burjatia 20.9.1930. Russian Buryat Scholar of Buddhism. From Urdo-Aga. Studies at Tomsk and St.Petersburg universities. ...
- CYBORAN, Leon
CYBORAN, Leon. Cracow 30.8.1928 — Warsaw 8.6.1977. Polish Indologist. Professor in Lublin. Born in Cracow, moved in 1946 to Wrocław. Studied ...
- CZERNY, Gerhard
CZERNY, Gerhard. Pettau (Ptuj in Slovenia) 12.4.1904 — 1936?. Austrian/Yugoslavian student of Comparative Religion. Born in Austria (now Yugoslavian territory), son of a Gerichtsofficial ...
- CANNIZZARO, Francesco Adolfo
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- Western explorers and traders University of Berlin University of Göttingen University of Freiburg Historical studies Colonial India University of Bonn Indian studies University of Leipzig The Indian independence movement Language studies Tibet islam British colonial time University of Halle Buddhism