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CABATON, Antoine. Nérondes (Cher) 11.12.1863 — Vannes 25.11.1942. French Physician and a Scholar of South-East Asia ...

CABRAL, João. Cerolico/Guarda 1599/1601 — Goa 4.7.1669. S.J. Portuguese Missionary in India and Ladakh. From Celorico (Beira). Jesuit ...

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. Aviz/Evora 1585 — Shigatse 6.3.1630. S.J. Portuguese Missionary in India and Ladakh. Joined the S.J. in ...

CADELL, Patrick Robert. 6.5.1871 — Frilford Heath, Abingdon 22.11.1961 (when 90). Sir. British Historian of Colonial India. Son ...

CAIN, John. 184? — 17.3.1917. Rev. British Missionary in India. Arrived in India in 1869, from 1874 in ...

CAIX DE SAINT-AYMOUR, Amédée, vicomte de. Senlis, Oise 26.4.1843 — Paris ?.12.1921. ...

CALAND, Willem. Brielle (Den Briel), Zuid Holland 27.8.1859 — Utrecht 23.3. 1932. Dutch Indologist. Professor in ...

CALDWELL, Robert. Clady co. Antrim, Ireland 7.5.1814 — Kodaikanal, India 28.8.1891. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary and ...

CALLAWAY, John. 17?? — 18??. Rev. British Wesleyan Missionary in Sri Lanka. Arrived in 1815 and worked there ...

CALLE, Pedro Urbano de la —> GONZÁLES DE LA CALLE, P. U.

CALMBERG, Ernst Philipp Ludwig. Wasungen/Sachsen-Meiningen 12.4.1794 ...

CALMETTE, Jean. Rodez, Aveyron 5.5.1692 (not 93) — Chickballapur, Karnataka ?.2.1740 (hardly 1739). S.J. French Missionary ...

CAMERON, George Glenn. Washington PA 30.7.1905 — Ann Arbor 14.9.1979. U.S. Historian of ancient Iran. Professor in Ann ...

CÄMMERER, August Friedrich. Wusterhausen, Brandenburg 22.6.1767 — Trankebar 22.10.1837. German Missionary in India. Son of Christian Gottlieb C. ...

CAMÕES, Luís Vaz de. Coimbra 1524/25 — Lisbon 10.6.1580. Portuguese Poet. Born in a poor noble family, son ...

CAMPBELL, Alexander Duncan. 6.1.1786 (hardly 1789) — 4.4.1857. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India, interested in Telugu. Served ...

CAMPBELL, Andrew. Boltan, Lancashire 1845 — Pokharia 8.7.1919. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in Chota Nagpur, a Santali Scholar. ...

CAMPBELL, Archibald. Islay 20.4.1805 (not 1804) — Slough 5.11.1874. British (Scottish) Physician in India. His first name was Archibald, ...

CAMPBELL, Archibald. Kilberry 18.1.1877 – London 24.4.1963. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of John C. M.A. ...

CAMPBELL, C. J. 1??? — 1???. C.E. In the 1860s in Delhi. One CJC was in 1856 Assistant ...

CAMPBELL, George. 22.3.1824 — Cairo 18.2.1892. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India, interested in Ethnology. Son of ...

CAMPBELL, James Macnabb. Partick, Lanarkshire 4.10.1846 — Rosneath, Dumbartonshire 26.5.1903. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India, interested ...

CAMPBELL, William Howard. Derry, Ireland 20.9.1859 — Bourdighera, Italy 18.2.1910. Rev. British (Irish/Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of ...

CAMPUZANO y GONZÁLEZ, Ramón. 18?? — 1???. Spanish Historian, Lexicographer and Publisher. ...

CANALEJAS, Francisco de Paula. Lucena 2.4.1834 — Madrid 4.5.1883. Spanish Scholar of Literature interested in Indo-European. Studies at ...

CANDY, Edward Townshend. India 15.4.1845 — ?.4.1913. Sir (1904). British Civil Servant in India. Son of —> Thomas Candy. Educated in ...

CANDY, Thomas. East Knoyle, Wiltshire 13.12.1804 — Mahabaleswar 26.2.1877. British Colonial Officer, Teacher and Marathi Scholar in India. ...

CANNING, Hugh. 18?? — 23.12.1927. Irishman? M.A. From 1914 Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at Trinity College ...

CANNIZZARO, Francesco Adolfo. Messina 13.7.1867 — Rome 24.4.1914. Italian Lawyer and autodidact Iranian Scholar. From 1887 studied law ...

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. 1894 — 1979. Italian Anthropologist. Professor of Anthropology in Rome (in the 1950s Assistant).

Publications: L’India preistorica. 233 p. 32 pl. Firenze 1960.

– “Ist die Indus-Kultur und ihre Bevolkerung wirklich verschwunden?”, Anthropos 60, 1965, ...

CAPUS, Guillaume. Esch-sur-Alzette 25.8.1857 — Boulogne-sur-Seine 27.4.1931. Luxemburgian Scientist and Explorer in France (naturalized 1882). Worked in Musée ...

CARDOSO Filho, Joaquim Lúcio. Curvelo, Est. de Minas Gerais 13.8.1913 ...

CAREY, Eustace. Paulerspury, Northamptonshire 22.3.1791 — London 19.7.1855. British Missionary in India. Son of Thomas C., nephew of ...

CAREY, Felix. 1786 (acc. to geni.com Moulton 20.10.1785) — Serampur 10.11.1822. British Missionary. Eldest son of —> W. ...

CAREY, William. Paulerspury, Northamptonshire 17.8.1761 — Serampur 9.6.1834. British Missionary and Pioneer of Indology, in India ...

CARL, Jean. 1900 — London 3.4.1941. French Architect and Archeologist. In the 1920s he was in ...

CARLLEYLE, Archibald Campbell L. (himself wrote Carleyle; some have Carlyle) 1831 — 1897. British Archaeologist. Came to India ...

CARNOY, Albert Joseph. Louvain (Leuven) 7.11.1878 — Louvain 12.1.1961. Belgian Linguist. Professor in Louvain. Son of ...

CAROE, Olaf Kirkpatrick. London 15.11.1892 — Steyning, Sussex 29.11.1981. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Son of the ...

CÀRPANI, Enrico Gerardo. 1912 — 1963. Italian Scholar of Religion. In Bologna. Ph.D. In 1946-47 he ...

CARPENTER, John N. 18?? — 19??. British Missionary in India. M.A. Worked for Church Missionary Society in Gorakhpur ...

CARPENTER, Joseph Estlin. Ripley, Survey 5.10.1844 ...

CARR, Mark William. 12.2.1833 — on Malabar coast 15.1.1871. British Colonial Officer in South India. From Northhumberland, son ...

CARRÉ, Barthélémy. c. 1636 — after 1699. Abbé. French Traveller. Of Blois, educated by Jesuits, took religious career ...

CARSTAIRS, George Morrison (Morris). Mussoorie 18.6.1916 — Edinburgh 17.4.1991. Scottish Psychiatrist and ...

CARTELLIERI, Wilhelm. Eger (in Bohemia, now Cheb) 23.6.1860 — Innsbruck 29.5.1908. Austrian Indologist. Professor in Innsbruck. ...

CARTER, Charles Henry. Leicestershire 29.10.1828 — Auckland 6.7.1914. Rev. Baptist Missionary in Ceylon. Son of Thomas Carter, a ...

CARUS, Paul. Ilsenburg am Harz 18.7.1852 — La Salle, Ill. 11.2.1919. German Philosopher and Scholar of Comparative Religion ...

CARVALHO, Jorge. fl. 1554. Indian living in Lisbon.

Publications: Translated a small Catechism from ...

CASAL, Jean-Marie. Troyes 30.6.1905 — Antibes 12.12.1977. French Archaeologist. Husband of Geneviève Casal (née Bell, 1910?–2002). ...

CASARTELLI, Louis Charles. Manchester 14.11.1852 — Salford 18.1.1925. Right Rev. British (of Italian origin) Iranian Scholar ...

CASSIANO BELIGATTI, hybrid for —> CASSIANO DA MACERATA (Giovanni Beligatti).

CASSIANO DA MACERATA (lay Giovanni Beligatti). ...

CASTANHEDA, Fernão Lopes de. Santarem c. 1500 — Coimbra 23.3. or 6.6.1559. Portuguese Historian of Colonial India. Illegitimate ...

CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL, Armand Pierre. Paris 11.1.1795 — Paris 15.1.1871. French Oriental (Arabic) Scholar. Son of Jean-Jacques-Antoine C. de P. ...

CAUTLEY, Proby Thomas. Suffolk 3.1.1802 — Sydenham, Kent 25.1.1871. Sir. British Officer in India. Son of the rev. ...

CELLARIUS, Johan Adam. Ulm 1740 — Cochin 15.6.1796. Dutch (Germann-born) Colonial Servant in India. Entered in 1762 the ...

CHALMERS, Robert (1919 first baron of Chalmers of Northiam). London 18.8.1858 — Oxford 17.11.1938. Lord. British ...

CHAMBERS, Robert. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 14.1.1737 — Paris 9.5.1803. Sir. British Colonial Official and a Pioneer of Indology. Son of Robert Ch., an ...

CHAMBERS, William. 1748 — 1793. British Colonial Official and a ...

CHANDLER, John Scudder. Madura, South India 12.4.1849 — Kodaikanal, South India 19.6.1934. U.S. Missionary and Tamil ...

CHANNING, Eva. 18?? — 1???. U.S. Student of Indology. Born in a wealthy Boston family, studied at Boston University, graduated 1877. ...

CHANTRAINE, Pierre Louis. Lille 15.9.1899 — Paris 30.6.1974. French Classical (Greek) Scholar and Linguist interested in India. Professor ...

CHAPMAN, Charles. Bathwick 23.11.1752 — 19.3.1809. British Civil Servant in IndiaCHAPMAN, Francis Robert Henry

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). Paris 16.11.1643 (Julian 6.11.) — Chiswick, London 5.1.1713 (25.12.1712). French Huguenot Jeweller and ...

CHARENCEY, Charles-Félix-Hyacinthe Gouhier, comte de. Paris 8.11.1832 — Saint-Maurice-lès-Charencey ...

CHARPENTIER, Jarl Hellen Robert Toussaint. Nya Varvet near Gothenburg 17.12.1884 — Uppsala 5.7.1935. Swedish Indologist. Professor ...

CHAVANNES, Emanuel-Édouard. Lyon 5.10.1865 — Paris ...

CHAVÉE, Honoré-Joseph. Namur 3.6.1815 — Paris 15.7.1877. Belgian Linguist in Paris, also interested in Sanskrit and IE. Originally ...

CHENOT, F. 1??? — 1???. Frenchman in India (?), according to Vinson interpreter ...

CHEVALIER, Jean-Baptiste. Blois 23.4.1729 — Blois 30.4.1789. French Traveller in India and Tibet. Son of Jean-Bapt. Ch., a ...

CHÉZY, Antoine Léonard de. Neuilly 15.1.1773 — Paris 3.9. (or 31.8.) 1832. French Pioneer of Indology, ...

CHIEFALÀ, Nicola —> KEPHALA, Nikolaos.

CHILDE, Vere Gordon. Sydney 14.4.1892 — Blackheath, NSW, Australia 19.10.1957. Australian Archaeologist ...

CHILDERS, Robert Cesar. Nice 1838 — London 25.7.1876. British Indologist (Pāli scholar). Born in southern France ...

CHOUNAVEL, Constant. Socourt, Saint-Dié, Vosges 9.4.1825 — Borella, Sri Lanka 23.8.1923. O.M.I. French Catholic Missionary in Sri Lanka. ...

CHRISTENSEN, Arthur Emanuel. Copenhagen 9.1.1875 — Copenhagen 31.3.1945. Danish Iranian Scholar. Professor in Copenhagen. Son of a post ...

CHRISTIAN, John. 18?? — 1???. Britishman (?) in India. In 1847 JC Esq. was in Monghyr, 1854 indigo ...

CHRISTOPHER, Willmott. 1??? — Multan, buried 9.10.1848. British Officer in India. Lieutenant, in 1834-35 participated the British Admiralty ...

CIARDI-DUPRÉ, Giuseppe. Firenze 13.9.1875 — 1953. Italian Linguist. Docent of IE comparative grammar at the R. Istituto di Studi Superiori in ...

CIMMINO, Francesco. Naples 6.1.1862 — Naples 2.3.1939. Italian Indologist and Poet. Studies at Naples under Kerbaker, ...

CINNOMA, Leonardo. 1??? — 1644. Father. Catholic Missionary in India.

CIOFFI, Salvatore (U Lokanatha Thera). Cervinara 26.12.1897 — Maymyo (Pyin Oo Lwin) 25.5.1966. Italian-American Bauddha, lived as Buddhist ...

CLARK, Edward Winter. Northeast, Dutchess County NY 25.2.1830 — (St. Augustine, Florida 13.5.1913 or rather) Dutchess County 24.6.1913. ...

CLARK, Thomas Welbourne. Ilkeston, Derbyshire 2.1.1904 — 22.12.1969. British Indologist, a Specialist of Bengali and NIA ...

CLARK, Walter Eugene. Digby, Nova Scotia 8.9.1881 — Vista, Calif. 30.9. 1960. U.S. Indologist. Professor at ...

CLARKE, Annie Barber (born Annie Leland Barber). Deerfield MA 9.6.1861 —19.11.1956. U.S. Student of Indology. Daughter of Henry ...

CLARKSON, William. Salisbury 1817 — 1897?. Rev. Missionary of London Missionary Society in Gujarat in 1839-48. Returned to ...

CLAUSON, Gerard Leslie Makins. 28.4.1891 — ...

CLAWITER, Walter. 1923 — 23.11.1970. German Indologist. Ph.D. Göttingen 1958 (?) under Waldschmidt. Edited Turfan texts ...

CLAYTON, Albert Charles. 1859 — 19??. Rev. British (?) Missionary in South India, a Tamil Scholar. In 1934 ...

CLEMENS A IESU (Clemente di Gesù, lay Giovanni Jacobo Peano di Penni, often called with hybrid name Clemente Peani or Clemens Peanus). Alessandria ...

CLEMENS, ?. 18?? — 191?. German Iranian Scholar specializing in Avesta. Died young in the WW I.

CLEMENTS, Ernest S. 1873 — 19??. Sir. British Civil Servant and Musicologist in ...

CLINT, Leonidas. St.Anns Soho, Middlesex 1812 — Dewsbury, Yorkshire 21.7.1897. British Missionary in India. Graduated M.A. from Trinity ...

CLOSS, Alois. Neumarkt in Steiermark 27.10.1893 — 10.1.1984. Austrian Iranian Scholar. Librarian in Graz. Son of Alois Closs, a court official, ...

CLOUGH, Benjamin. Bradford, Yorkshire 1791 — Southwark, Kent 1853. British Methodist Missionary and Pāli Scholar in ...

COCK, Jan Kornelis de. Vierhuizen, Ulrum 23.10.1867 — Davos, Switzerland 6.4.1941. Dutch Indologist. Son of an industrialist. After ...

COCKBURN, John. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Prehistory. Served in Opium Department (1879/83). ...

CODRINGTON, Humphrey William. Hambleden, Buckinghamshire 25.9.1879 —London 7.11.1942. British Scholar of Sri Lankan History and Ethnography. Son of ...

CODRINGTON, Kenneth de Burgh. Murree, Punjab 5.6.1899 — 1.1.1986. British Archaeologist and ...

CODRINGTON, Oliver. Wroughton, Wiltshire 5.5.1837 — Brentford, Middlesex 1921 (not 1931). British Physician and

CŒDÈS, Georges. Paris 10.8.1886 — Neuilly-sur-Seine 2.10.1969. French South-East Asian Scholar (Historian and Epigraphist). Descended from a family ...

COEMANS, Émile M. 18?? — 1???. Belgian Scholar. At Ghent University, the author of a Manuel de langue égyptienne.

CŒURDOUX, Gaston-Laurent. Bourges 18.10.1691 (or 18.12.?) — Pondichéry 15.6.1779. S.J. French Missionary Priest and Pioneer of Indology ...

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 ...

COHEN, Sulman Samuel. Iraq 1895 — Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai 1980. U.S. Pupil of Ramana Maharshi. Lived in India with his guru in 1936-55.

COHN-WIENER, Ernst (until 1907 Ernst Cohn). Tilsit (now Sovetsk) 25.12.1882 — New York 13.4.1941.

COLE, Frederick Thomas. 18?? — 19??. Rev. British Missionary in India. In Agra, from 1873 in Santal Mission of Church Missionary ...

COLE, Henry. Bath 15.7.1808 — London 18.4.1882. Sir. English Civil Servant, Designer and Inventor. Son of Captain Henry Robert Cole and Lætitia Dormer. Educated in ...

COLE, Henry Hardy. Kensington ?.8.1843 — Oxford 23.12.1916. British architect and engineer officer in India. Son of —> ...

COLE, Robert Andrews. Madras 1835 — 1907. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Major Robert Wynne Cole, an army doctor. ...

COLEBROOKE SUTHERLAND, James Charles —> SUTHERLAND, James Charles Colebrooke

COLEBROOKE, Henry Thomas. London 15.6.1765 — London 10.12.(or 10.3. or 18.3. or 10.4.)1837. British Pioneer of ...

COLEBROOKE, Thomas Edward. Calcutta 19.8.1813 — London 11.1.1890. Sir (4th Bart.). British ...

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. Alost (Aalst) 2.3.1853 — Sleydingen 3.12.1917. Belgian Indologist, Linguist and Scholar of Religion. Professor in Louvain. Son of Felix ...

COLLET, Charles. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. Sub-Collector in Malabar ...

COLLIN, August Zacharias. Glimåkra, Skåne 23.8.1833 — Göteborg 23.7.1886. Swedish School Teacher interested in Sanskrit. Son ...

COLLINS, Georges François Guillaume Jean Jacques. Lyon 2.2.1825 — Vichy 17.6.1882. French Protestant Priest and Scholar of History ...

COLLINS, Mark. Brighton 28.12.1866 — 193?. British Indologist in India. Educated at Brighton Grammar School. In 1881-86 in business, then teacher ...

COLLINS, Richard. Bicker, Lincolnshire 20.10.1828 — Kirkburton, Yorkshire 30.10.1900. Rev. British Missionary of Church Missionary Society

COLLITZ, Hermann. Bleckede near Hannover 4.2.1855 — Baltimore 13.5.1935. German Linguist (IE and Germanic) in the U.S.A. Professor ...

COMBAZ, Gisbert-Corneille-Henri-Paul. Anvers 23.9.1869 — Saint-Gilles (Bruxelles) 18.1.1941. Belgian Painter, Art Historian and Archaeologist. Also himself ...

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 Estelle Perrigo. Educated at ...

CONGREVE, Harry. 18?? — 1???. British Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel, of Madras Artillery (no longer in service in ...

CONIO, Caterina. Santo Stefano al Mare (Liguria) 1929 — Milano 1996. Italian Indologist. Daughter of a bank director, grew up in Florence. Graduated ...

CONOLLY, Edward Barry. London? 1808 — Kohat, Afghanistan ?.10.1840. British Colonial Officer in ...

CONRADY, August. Wiesbaden 28.4.1864 — Leipzig 3/4.6.1925. German Indologist and Sinologist. Professor in Leipzig. Son of ...

CONTI, Niccolò (De’ C., Niccolò di Giovanni Conti di Chioggia). Chioggia near Venice c. 1395 — Chioggia (?) ...

CONZE, Edward (Eberhard Julius Dietrich Conze). Forest Hill (London) 18.3.1904 — Yeovil, Somerset 24.9.1979. British (German-born) Indologist and Buddhist Scholar. Son of Ernst C. and Adelaide Louise ...

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 Sir Mutu Coomaraswamy (1834–1879, Sri Lankan Tamil ...

ČOP, Bojan. Ljubljana 23.5.1923 — Ljubljana 3.8.1994. Yugoslavian/Slovenian IE Linguist and Scholar of Tocharian. Son of Josip Čop and Ursula Potočnik, educated in Ljubljana. In ...

COPE, Henry. 18?? — 187?. Journalist in India. In 1847 he resided in Delhi and was the secretary ...

COPLESTON, Reginald Stephen. Barnes, London 26.12.1845 — 19.4.1925. Most Rev. British Priest in Ceylon and India. Son of ...

CORAL-RÉMUSAT, Gilberte de. 1903 — Lausanne 18.10.1943. Mme. French Art Historian of South and South-East Asia. Grandniece of ...

CORBIN, Henry. Paris 14.4.1903 — Paris 7.10.1978. French Philosopher, Theologian and Scholar of Iranian Religion and Islam. Son ...

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 ...

CORDIER, Palmyr Uldéric Alexis. Amancey (Doubs) 18.2.1871 — Besançon 5.9.1914. French Physician and Indologist, an early specialist of the Āyurveda. Born ...

CORDINER, James. 1775 — 1836. Rev. British (Scottish) Priest in Sri Lanka. In 1799-1804 second chaplain to the garrison ...

CORREIA, Gaspar. 1492? — Malacca or Goa 1563?. Portuguese Historian of Colonial India. In the age of 16 ...

CORSALI, Andrea. Florence 29.6.1487 — 15??. Italian Traveller. ...

CORYAT, Thomas (Tom Coriate). Odcombe (Crewkerne), Somersetshire 1577? — Surat ?.12.1617. British Traveller in India. Son of the ...

COSQUIN, Emmanuel. Vitry-le-François (Marne) 25.6.1841 — ibid. 18.4.1919. French Folklorist

COSTA DE MACEDO, Joaquim José da. Lisbon 25.4.1777 — Golegã 15.3.1867. Portuguese Historian. Librarian, then Academician in Lisbon. Also other important ...

COSTA, Baltasar da. 1534? — 1580. S.J. Portuguese Missionary in India and Japan. In the age of 17 ...

COSTA, Baltasar da. Aldeia Nova (Guarda) 1613 — on sea 21.4.1673. S.J. Father. Portuguese Missionary in India. Joined ...

COSTA, Cristovão da —> ACOSTA, Cristovão d

COSTA, Traian. 1926 — 1995. Romanian Linguist and Classical Scholar. Student of Bănăţeanu, taught Sanskrit at the Bucureşti ...

COTTON, Arthur Thomas. Combermere, Cheshire 15.5.1803 — Dorking, Surrey 24.7.1899. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. General. Son ...

COTTON, Gérard. 1??? — 19??. Belgian Author, Classical Scholar and Indologist. At the university of Liège.

Publications: “La Kena Upaniṣad”, ...

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 and Head ...

COURBIN, Henri. 1??? — . Frenchman. In 1931 teacher in a secondary school (lycée de Lyon) in Paris. Both Edgerton (Language 8, 1932, 304) and Rylands ...

COURT, Claude Auguste. Grasse (or Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne, both in Alpes-Maritimes) 24.9.1793 — Paris 21.1.1880. French soldier serving as a General under Rañjit Singh. Son of an officer, André ...

COURT, Henry. 17?? — 1???. British Officer in India. Major. There were at least three Major Henry Courts, ...

COURTILLIER, Gaston. Buoy-Luxembourg (Aube) 20.4.1877 — ?.12.1933. French Indologist. From 1897 student of Lévi and Finot at É.P.H.É. In the early 1920s he was Professor at the ...

COUSENS, Henry. Paisley, Renfrewshire 13.9.1854 — Tunbridge Wells, Kent 5.11.1934. British (Scottish) Archaeologist in India. Son of Henry C., a Photozincographer, and Margaret Fitzmaurice. From 1881 Assistant ...

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 origin, his father was ...

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. 25.7.1914 — 17.9.1996. Belgian Scholar of Tocharian. Studied under Sieg at Göttingen. In Ghent as Professor of IE Linguistics, then (1957/63/73/94) living in Antwerpen (but ...

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. (a merchant, d. 1842) and Marianne ...

COWGILL, Warren Crawford. Crangeville, Idaho 19.12.1929 — New Haven 20.6.1985. U.S. IE Linguist. Professor at Yale. Son of George Dewey C. and Ruby Eugenia Smith. Educated at ...

COX, Arthur Ditmas. 21.3.1870 — 3.5.1939. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Henry William Cox, of ...

COX, Edmund Charles. Exeter 27.2.1856 — Chiswick 11.3.1935. Sir, 15th Baronet. British Police Officer in India. Son of ...

COX, Edward T. 1??? — 1???. Captain in Madras Army (1847). In his book he teaches the dialect ...

COX, George William. Benares 10.1.1827 — Walmer, Kent 9.2.1902. Rev., 14th Baronet. British Historian. The eldest son of Captain George Hamilton Cox and Eliza Kearton. Sent to ...

COXE, William Henry. 18?? — 18.12.1869. British Classical Scholar. The eldest son of Henry Octavius Coxe (1811–1881), the ...

CRAIG, James Alexander. Fitzroy Harbour, Ontario 5.3.1855 — Toronto 16.5.1932. Canadian Linguist. Son of James Craig, a farmer, and Rachel Cughan. ...

CRANE, Robert I. Delhi 1920 — Syracuse NY 1997. U.S. Historian of South Asia.

CRAUFURD, Quintin. Kilwinning, Ayrshire 22.9.1743 — Paris 23.11.1819. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in ...

CRAVEN, Roy Curtis, Jr. Cherokee Bluffs, Alabama 29.7.1924 — 30.5.1996. U.S. Art Historian, also painter, sculpturer and photographer. ...

CRAVEN, Thomas. 1844/46 — 1919. Rev. U.S. Methodist ...

CRAWFURD, John. Islay, Hebrides 13.8.1783 — South Kensington, London 11.5.1868. British (Scottish) Physician, Colonial Officer and South-East Asian Scholar. Son of ...

CROFTON, Henry Thomas. Preston 23.7.1848 — Berkshire 17.4.1928. British Gypsy Scholar. Born of an Anglo-Irish family, son of General ...

CROMPTON, Charles Arthur. Cork 21.10.1848 — Cherat 6.7.1875. British (Irish) Colonial Officer ...

CROOKE, William. Macroom, co. Cork 6.8.1848 — Cheltenham 25.10.1923. British (Irish) Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of Warren Cr., M.D., of an originally English family ...

CROSBY, Josiah. Falmouth ?.5.1880 — 4.12.1958. Sir. British Diplomat interested in South-East Asian History. Son of Captain J. P. Cr. and Christina, educated in Newcastle. ...

CSOMA DE KŐRÖS, Alexander (Kőrösi Csoma Sándor). Kőrös, Kovászna, Transylvania (now Chiuruş, Covasna in Romania) 27.3.1784 — Darjeeling 11.4.1842. Hungarian Tibetologist, in Ladakh and India 1822-42. Born ...

CUENDET, Georges. Geneva 5.9.1897 — 1980. Swiss Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Educated at Collège de Genève, studies at universities of Geneva (Bally), Basel, and Paris (Meillet at ...

CUMMING, John Ghest. 29.12.1868 — London 9.3.1958 (when 89). Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India, Historian of ...

CUMMINGS, Thomas Fulton. New Wilmington PA 3.9.1863 — 1942. U.S. Presbyterian Missionary in the Pañjāb. After Westminster College studies at Union Theological Seminary 1886-87 and at Allegheny ...

CUMONT, Franz Valéry Marie. Aalst 3.1.1868 — Brussels 20.8.1947. Belgian Scholar of Ancient Religions, History and Archaeology. Son of a textile factory owner. Studies at Ghent, Ph.D. ...

CUNHA RIVARA, J. H. da —> RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha

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. Lambeth 9.6.1812 — Umbala 28.2.1851. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer and Historian in India. Elder brother of —> A.C. After education at private schools and ...

CUNY, Albert-Louis-Marie. Saint-Dié (Vosges) 16.5.1869 — Bordeaux 21.3.1947. French Lin­guist. Professor in Bordeaux. Son of Charles C. and Euphrasie Petit-demange. After Petit seminaire de Chatel & Autrey ...

ČUPR, František. Chrast, district Chrudim 11.4.1821 — Prague 28.6.1882. Czech Philosopher and Educator. Studies at Prague, Ph.D. 1845. In 1848-53 taught at Altstädter akad. Gymnasium, in 1853 ...

CURIEL, Raoul. Cairo 23.6.1913 — Paris 23.2.2000. French (citizen 1947) Indologist, Iranian Scholar, Numismatist and Archaeologist. Son of Daniel C., a wealthy banker, of a Francophone Sephardic ...

CURTIUS, Georg. Lübeck 16.4.1820 — Hermsdorf bei Warmbrunn in Silesia (now Sobieszów, Poland) 12.8.1885. German Indo-Europaean and Classical scholar. Son of Carl Georg C. (1771-1857; Syndikus of ...

CUST, Robert Needham. Bedfordshire 24.2.1821 — London 28.10.1909. British Indologist. Son of Hon. and Rev. Henry Cookayne Cust, of a noble family (his uncle was Earl Brownlow), ...

CUTLER, Harriet B. L. 1??? — 1???. U.S. Missionary in India. Wife of Rev. Oliver C., arrived at ...

CUTTAT, Jacques-Albert (pseudonym Jean Thamar). Delémont 1909 — 1989. Swiss Diplomat, Lawyer ...

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. Urdo-Aga, district Čita, Transbaikalia 20.4.1873 — Aginskoe, Burjatia 20.9.1930. Russian Buryat Scholar of Buddhism. Son of Cebek Montujev, a literate and well-to-do Buryat. After ...

CYBORAN, Leon. Cracow 30.8.1928 — Warsaw 8.6.1977. Polish Indologist. Professor in Lublin. Born in Cracow, moved in 1946 to Wrocław. Studied philosophy at Wrocław in 1948-52. In ...

CZERNY, Gerhard. Pettau (Ptuj in Slovenia) 12.4.1904 — 1936?. Austrian/Yugoslavian student of Comparative Religion. Born in Austria (now Slovenian territory), son of a Gerichtsofficial (d. 1908), ...

CHANTRAINE, Pierre Louis. Lille 15.9.1899 — Paris 30.6.1974. French Classical (Greek) Scholar and Linguist interested in India. Professor ...