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  • 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 ...

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