CABATON, Antoine. Nérondes (Cher) 11.12.1863 — Vannes, Brittany 25.11.1942. French Physician and a Scholar ...

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

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 ...

CADELL, Patrick Robert. Bhurtpore (Bharatpur), Bengal 6.5.1871 — Frilford Heath, Abingdon 22.11.1961 (when 90). Sir. British Civil Servant ...

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

CAIUS, R. P. J. 18?? — 19??. S. J. Father. Missionary in Tiruchirappalli.

Publications: “Au Pays des Castes. Castes des pays Dravidiens”, Anthropos 1, 1906, 426-434; “Au Pays des Castes. Les Brahmanes. (Suite)”, Anthropos 3, ...

CAIX DE SAINT-AYMOUR, Amédée, vicomte de. Senlis (Oise) 26.4.1843 — ...

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

CALDWELL, Robert. Clady, county Antrim, Northern Ireland 7.5.1814 — Kodaikanal, India 28.8.1891. Rev. British ...

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

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

CALMBERG, Ernst Philipp Ludwig.

CALMETTE, Jean. Rodez (Aveyron) 5.5.1692 (not 1693) — Chickballapur, Karnataka ?.2.1740 (hardly 1739). S.J. ...

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

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

CAMMIADE, Louis Aime François. Madras 2.6.1872 — Worthing, Sussex 3.11.1951. British Civil Servant and lay Archaeologist in India. Son of merchant Gilbert Henry C. and Anne-Marie Sicé. Graduated ...

CAMÕES, Luís Vaz de. Coimbra (or Lisbon?) 1524/25 — Lisbon 10.6.1580. Portuguese Poet. Born in a poor ...

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

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

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

CAMPBELL, Archibald. Bilberry, Argyll 18.1.1877 – London 24.4.1963. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of ...

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

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

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

CAMPBELL, John. 18?? — 1???. British. In 1866-88 (unpaid) Professor of Bengali at King’s College, London.

Publications: Nothing found.

Sources: With such a common name ...

CAMPBELL, Joseph John. White Plains, NY 26.3.1904 — Honolulu 30.10.1987. U.S. Scholar of Literature and Comparative Mythology and Religion. Son of hosiery importer and wholesaler Charles William C. (of Irish ...

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

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

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

CANDOLLE, Bertrand de. 1929 — 1999. Swiss, probably Catholic Missionary. Musée d’ethnographie de Génève has Indian material donated by him and the page https://popups.uliege.be/0457-4184/index.php?id=201&lang=en gives name, life years and connection with ...

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

CANDY, Thomas. East Knoyle, Wiltshire 13.12.1804 — Mahabaleshwar, dt. Satara 26.2.1877. British Colonial Officer, Teacher and ...

CANEDO GRILLE, José. Tordoia, Galicia 22.2.1902 — Lens 29.12.1945. Spanish Linguist. Studies at seminary of Santiago de Compostela and at University of Granada, then 7 years IE, Indology and classics at Berlin. ...

CANNING, Hugh. 18?? — 23.12.1927. Irishman? M.A. 1910 Trinity College. From 1914 Professor of Sanskrit and ...

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

CAPPELLER, Carl Johann Wilhelm. Alexkehmen, Ostpreussen 22.3.1840 — Jena 17.7.1925. German Indologist. Professor in Jena. Son of an estate ...

CAPPER, John. Lambeth, Surrey 29.9.1814 — Fulham, Middlesex 31.3.1898. British Journalist and Writer in Sri Lanka. Son of Benjamin Pitts C. and Maria Margaret Bessell. In 1837 he joined ...

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

Publications: “Le caste degli intoccabili in India”, Rivista di Antropoligia ...

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

CARDOSO Filho, Joaquim Lúcio. Curvelo, Minas Gerais 13.8.1913 — Rio ...

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

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

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

CARL, Jean. Saint-Dié-des-Vosges 23.9.1900 — London 3.4.1941. French Architect ...

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

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

CAROE, Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse. London 15.11.1892 — Steyning, Sussex 29.11.1981. Sir. British Civil Servant ...

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. Went to ...

CARPENTER, Joseph Estlin. Ripley, ...

CARPENTER, Mary. Exeter 3.4.1807 — Bristol 14.6.1877. British Philanthropist and Friend of India. Daughter of Dr. Lant C. (d. 1840), unitarian minister, and Anna/Hannah (?) Hooke, aunt of —> Joseph ...

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

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. British ...

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

CARTER, Charles Henry. Leicestershire 29.10.1828 — Auckland 6.7.1914. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in Ceylon. ...

CARTY, Pierre. Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) 4.8.1876 — India 27.6.1950. S.J. French Missionary in South India. After school in Pau studies at Bordeaux (B.Sc.). Now joined the Madura Mission of ...

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

CARVALHO, Jorge. fl. 1554. Indian Christian from the Paravar community of Tuticorin, living in Lisbon.

Publications:

CASAL, Geneviève (née Bell). Paris 14.10.1909 — Troyes (Aube) 8.1.2002. French Archaeologist. Wife of —> J.-M. Casal. Studies at Louvre School, where she met her husband. In 1946 they went together to ...

CASAL, Jean-Marie. Troyes 30.6.1905 — Antibes 12.12.1977. French Archaeologist. Husband of —> Geneviève Casal ...

CASARTELLI, Louis Charles. Manchester 14.11.1852 — Salford near Manchester CASSIANO DA MACERATA (Giovanni Beligatti)

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

CASTRO, João de. Lisbon 27.2.1500 — Goa 6.6.1548. Portuguese Nobleman, fourth Viceroy of Portuguese India. Second son of Álvaro de Castro, the civil governor of Lisbon, and Leonor de ...

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

CAUTLEY, Proby Thomas. Suffolk 3.1.1802 — Sydenham, Kent 25.1.1871. Sir. British Engineer Officer in ...

CAVE, Henry William. Brackley, Northamptonshire 23.2.1854 — Brighton, Sussex 28.10.1913. British Author, Photographer and Publisher. Son of William Cave and Louisa Wilson. Studied at Magdalen College School, and Queen’s ...

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

CHADWICK, Hector Munro. Thornhill Lees, Yorkshire 22.10.1870 — Cambridge 2.1.1947. British Linguist and Philologist. Professor in Cambridge. Son of Rev. Edward Ch. and Sarah Anne Bates. Educated at Bradford and ...

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

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

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

CHANDLER, John Scudder. Madurai, Tamil Nadu 12.4.1849 — Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu 19.6.1934. U.S. Missionary and Tamil ...

CHANNING, Eva. Boston 17.5.1854 — Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina 23.3.1930. U.S. Suffragist, Student of Indology. Born in a wealthy ...

CHANTRAINE, Pierre Louis. Lille 15.9.1899 — Paris 30.6.1974. French Classical (Greek) Scholar ...

CHAPMAN, Charles. Bath wick, Somerset 23.11.1752 — 19.3.1809. British Civil Servant in ...

CHAPMAN, Francis Robert Henry. Sholapur, Maharashtra 22.10.1858 — Portugal 13.3.1942. British ...

CHAPMAN, Isham J. 1??? — 1???. British Colonial Officer in Ceylon. Captain of Royal Artillery. Possible relatives in I.C.S. (see Buckland). The first ...

CHARDIN, Jean-Baptiste (Sir John Chardin). Paris 16.11.1643 (Julian 6.11.) — Chiswick, London 5.1.1713 (25.12.1712). ...

CHARENCEY, Charles-Félix-Hyacinthe Gouhier, comte de. ...

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

CHAVANNES, Emanuel-Édouard. Lyon 5.10.1865 ...

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

CHENEVIX TRENCH, Charles Godfrey. 30.12.1877 — 1.9.1964. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Colonel Charles Chenevix Tr. and Emily Lefroy. Educated at Loretto School, East Lothian. Studies ...

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

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

CHÉZY, Antoine Léonard de. Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris 15.1.1773 — Paris 3.9. (or 31.8.) 1832. ...

CHIEFALÀ, Nicola —> KEPHALA, Nikolaos

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

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

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

CHRÉTIEN, Charles Douglas. 1904 — Berkeley 3.11.1969. U.S. Linguist. Studies at Hamilton College (A.B. and A.M.), then three years Instructor there. Graduate studies at Harvard, A.M. 1931 and Ph.D. ...

CHRISTENSEN, Arthur Emanuel. Copenhagen 9.1.1875 — Copenhagen 31.3.1945. Danish Iranian Scholar. Professor in Copenhagen. ...

CHRISTIAN, John. 18?? — 1???. Britishman (?) in India. In 1847 J.C. Esq. was in Monghyr, ...

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

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

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

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

CIOFFI, Salvatore (U Lokanatha Thera). Cervinara, Campania 26.12.1897 — Maymyo (Pyin Oo Lwin), Burma 25.5.1966. Italian-American ...

CIPRIANI, Lidio. Bagnoa Ripoli, Florence 17.3.1892 — Florence 8.10.1962. Italian Anthropologist. Son of Cesare C., an elementary school teacher, and Pia Nannelli

CLAFLIN, Edith Frances. Quincy, MA 6.10.1875 — New York City 5.3.1953. U.S. Linguist and Classical Scholar. Daughter of Frederick Allan Claflin and Narcissa Adelaide Avery.

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

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

CLARK, Walter Eugene. Digby, Nova Scotia 8.9.1881 — Vista, Calif. 30.9.1960. U.S. Indologist. Professor ...

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

CLARKE, Charles Baron. Andower, Hampshire 17.6.1832 — Kew, Richmond 25.8.1906.British Civil Servant (Teacher) and Botanist in India. Son of Turner Poulter Clarke, a Justice of peace, ...

CLARKSON, William. Salisbury 1817 — 1897. Rev. British Missionary of London Missionary Society in Gujarat in ...

CLAUSON, Gerard Leslie Makins. Valletta, ...

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

CLAYTON, Albert Charles. St.Helens, Merseyside 1869 — 1956. Rev. British Methodist Missionary in South India, a Tamil Scholar. ...

CLEGHORN, Hugh. Fife 1751/52 — ?.2.1836. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. High School in Edinburgh 1762-63. In 1773-93 Professor of Civil and Natural History at St.Andrews University, ...

CLEMEN, Carl Christian. Sommerfeld bei Leipzig 30.3.1865 — Bonn 8.7.1940. German Theologian and Historian of Religion. Professor in Bonn. Son of Oberkirchenrat August Clemen and Helene Voigt, educated at Fürstenschule ...

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

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

Publications: Perhaps nothing.

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

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

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

CLOUGH, Benjamin. Bradford, Yorkshire 1791 — Southwark, Kent 13.4.1853. British Methodist Missionary and Pāli ...

COATS (Coates), Thomas. 17?? — 18??. British Physician in India. He spent many years in Poona (Pune) as surgeon in Peshva’s time. Campaigned against orthodox opposition on behalf of ...

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

COCKBURN, John. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Prehistory. Served in Opium ...

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

CODRINGTON, Kenneth de Burgh. Murree, Punjab 5.6.1899 — ...

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). Son of ...

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

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

COGNI, Giulio. Siena 10.1.1908 — 15.11.1983. Italian Author and Composer interested in religions, parapsychology and like. Living in Siena. In the 1930s he ...

COHEN, Sulman Samuel. Basra, Iraq 1895 — Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai 1980. A Baghdadi Jew in India. Eldest of the eleven children of a ...

COHN-WIENER, Ernst (until 1907 Ernst Cohn). Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk in RussiaCOHN, Bernard Samuel. Brooklyn, N.Y. 13.5.1928 — Chicago 25.11.2003. U.S. Anthropologist. Graduated from University of Wisconsin (B.A. 1949) and Cornell University (Ph.D. 1954). In 1956-60 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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.). ...

COLES, Stephen. 18?? — 13.9.1901. Rev. British Missionary, member of Church Mission Society in Sri Lanka. After Highbury Training College arrived at Ceylon as early as 1861 and remained ...

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

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

COLLIN, August Zacharias. Glimåkra, Skåne 23.8.1833 — Göteborg 23.7.1886. Swedish Schoolteacher interested in Sanskrit. ...

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

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

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

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

COMBAZ, Gisbert-Corneille-Henri-Paul. Antwerp 23.9.1869 — Saint-Gilles (Brussels) 18.1.1941. Belgian Painter, Art Historian and Archaeologist. ...

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. ...

CONGREVE, Harry. 18?? — 1???. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Cadet 1827, arrived in India ...

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

CONNER, Peter Eyre. 5.8.1789 (hardly 1794) — Hyderabad 29.4.1821. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant of Madras infantry. Together with Ltn. Benjamin S. Ward conducted the survey of Travancore ...

CONOLLY, Edward Barry. London? 1808 — Kohat, Afghanistan ?.10.1840. CONRAD, Dieter

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

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

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.

COOMARASWAMY, Ananda Kentish (Kumārasvāmi). Colombo 22.8.1877 — Needham, MA 9.9.1947. Sri Lankan/British Art Historian and Indologist in the U.S.A. Son of Sir Mutu Coomaraswamy (1834–1879, ...

COOPER, Roland Edgar. Kingston-on-Thames, London 16.6.1890 — Southend-on-Sea, Essex 31.1.1962. British Botanist. Lost his parents in the age of four and was raised by his aunt and her husband, ...

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 ...

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

COPLESTON, Reginald Stephen. Barnes, London 26.12.1845 — Wandsworth, London 19.4.1925. Rev. British Priest in Sri Lanka ...

CORAL-RÉMUSAT, Gilberte de. Paris 17.12.1903 — Lausanne 18.10.1943. Mme. French Art Historian of South and South-East Asia. 

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

CORDIER, Henri. New Orleans 8.8.1849 — Cairo, Egypt 16.3.1925. French Scholar of Asian History. Son of Erneste-Eugène C., a ...

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

CORDINER, James. 1775 — Aberdeen 13.1.1836. Rev. ...

CORNYN, William Stewart. Vancouver 16.7.1906 — 15.3.1971. Canadian Burmese and Russian Scholar in the U.S.A. In 1922 moved to Los Angeles, worked as stock clerk, hall boy, and bookkeeper, ...

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

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 ...

COSERIU, Eugenio (Eugeniu Coşeriu). Mihăileni, Bălţi (now in Moldova) 27.7.1921 — Tübingen 7.9.2002. Romanian Comparative Linguist in Uruguay and Germany. High school in Bălti. COSQUIN, Emmanuel

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

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

COSTA, Cristovão da —> ACOSTA, Cristovão d

COSTA, Giulio. Imola 1901 — Mendal, Tura, Meghalaya 16/17.4.1970. S.D.B. Father. Italian Catholic Missionary in Assam. Worked in Khasi Hills (1936), then in Tura in West Garo Hills, altogether ...

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

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

COTTON, Gérard. 1??? — 19??. Belgian Author, Classical Scholar and Indologist. Ph.D. 1930, in Sanskrit student of Mansion. At the university of Liège.

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 ...

COURBIN, Henri. 1??? — ????. French Teacher interested in Sanskrit. In 1931 teacher in a secondary school (lycée de Lyon) in Paris. Both Edgerton ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

COUSINS, James Henry Sproull. Belfast 22.7.1873 — Madanapalle 20.2.1956. Irish author (poet and dramatist), critic and teacher. Born in a family of Huguenot ...

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. Antwerpen 25.7.1914 — Edegem 17.9.1996. Belgian Linguist and Scholar of Tocharian. After school in Antwerpen studies at Leuven, also under Sieg at Göttingen. ...

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) ...

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 ...

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

COX, Edmund Charles. Exeter, Devon 27.2.1856 — Chiswick, London 11.3.1935. Sir, 15th Baronet. British ...

COX, Edward Thomas. London 9.7.1807 — Chicacole (Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh)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. ...

COXE, William Henry. 1840 — 18.12.1869, when 29. British Classical Scholar. The eldest son of Henry ...

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

CRANE, Robert Irwin. 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 ...

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

CRAVEN, Thomas. Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales 28.3.1844 — 1919. Rev. U.S. (born Welsh) Methodist

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

CROFTON, Henry Thomas. Preston, Lancashire 23.7.1848 — Berkshire 17.4.1928. British Gipsy Scholar. Born of an Anglo-Irish family, ...

CROMPTON, Charles Arthur. Cork, Munster 21.10.1848 — Cherat near Peshawar ...

CROOKE, William. Macroom, co. Cork 6.8.1848 — Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 25.10.1923. British (Irish) Civil Servant and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

CUMMING, John Ghest. Houston and Killelan, Renfrewshire  29.12.1868 ...

CUMMINGS, Thomas Fulton. New Wilmington, PA 3.9.1863 — 6.2.1942. U.S. Presbyterian Missionary in the Puñjab. After Westminster College studies at Union Theological Seminary 1886-87 and ...

CUMONT, Franz Valéry Marie. Aalst 3.1.1868 — Brussels 20.8.1947. Belgian Scholar of Ancient Religions, History and Archaeology. Son of Florent C., a textile ...

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, London 9.6.1812 — near Ambala 28.2.1851. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer and Historian in India. Son of poet Allan C. ...

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 ...

ČUPR, František. Chrast, district Chrudim, region Pardubice 11.4.1821 — Prague 28.6.1882. Czech Philosopher and Educator. Gymnasium in Litomyšl, studies at Prague, Ph.D. 1845. In 1848-53 ...

CURIEL, Raoul. Cairo 23.6.1913 — Paris 23.2.2000. French (citizen 1947) Indologist, Iranian Scholar, Numismatist and Archaeologist. Son of Daniel C., and his wife Zephira, ...

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; ...

CUST, Robert Needham. Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire 24.2.1821 — Campden ...

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

CUTTAT, Jacques-Albert (pseudonym Jean Thamar). Delémont, canton Jura ...

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. (1866–1917) and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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