• CABATON, Antoine

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

  • CABRAL, João

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

  • 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 ...

  • CADELL, Patrick

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

  • CAIN, John

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

  • CAIUS, R. P. J.

    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

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

  • CALAND, Willem

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

  • CALDWELL, Robert

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

  • CALLAWAY, John

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

  • CALLE, Pedro Urbano de la

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

  • CALMBERG, Ernst Philipp Ludwig

    CALMBERG, Ernst Philipp Ludwig.

  • CALMETTE, Jean

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

  • CAMERON, George Glenn

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

  • CÄMMERER, August Friedrich

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

  • CAMMIADE, Louis Aime

    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

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

  • CAMPBELL, Alexander Duncan

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

  • CAMPBELL, Andrew

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

  • CAMPBELL, Andrew (of Kathmandu) —> Archibald CAMPBELL (1805–1874)
    CAMPBELL, Andrew (of Kathmandu) —> Archibald CAMPBELL (1805–1874)
  • CAMPBELL, Archibald (elder)

    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 (younger)

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

  • CAMPBELL, Arthur —> Archibald CAMPBELL (1805–1874)
    CAMPBELL, Arthur —> Archibald CAMPBELL (1805–1874)
  • CAMPBELL, C. J.

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

  • CAMPBELL, George

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

  • CAMPBELL, James Macnabb

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

  • CAMPBELL, John

    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

    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
    CAMPBELL, William. 1799 — 1878.  Rev. British Missionary in India. From c. 1823-35 twelve years in India (Bangalore), working for London Missionary Society, ...
  • CAMPBELL, William Howard

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

  • CAMPUZANO y GONZÁLEZ, Ramón

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

  • CANALEJAS, Francisco de Paula

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

  • CANDOLLE, Bertrand de

    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

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

  • CANDY, Thomas

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

  • CANEDO GRILLE, José

    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

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

  • CANNIZZARO, Francesco Adolfo

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

  • CAPPELLER, Carl

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

  • CAPPER, John

    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

    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

    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, Lúcio

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

  • CAREY, Eustace

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

  • CAREY, Felix

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

  • CAREY, William

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

  • CARL, Jean

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

  • CARLLEYLE, Archibald Campbell L.

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

  • CARNOY, Albert Joseph

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

  • CAROE, Olaf

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

  • CARPANI, Enrico Gerardo

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

  • CARPENTER, John N.

    CARPENTER, John N. 18?? — 19??. British Missionary in India. M.A. Went to ...

  • CARPENTER, Joseph Estlin

    CARPENTER, Joseph Estlin. Ripley, ...

  • CARPENTER, Mary

    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

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

  • CARRÉ, Barthélémy

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

  • CARSTAIRS, G. Morris

    CARSTAIRS, George Morrison (Morris). Mussoorie 18.6.1916 — Edinburgh 17.4.1991. British ...

  • CARTELLIERI, Wilhelm

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

  • CARTER, Charles Henry

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

  • CARTY, Pierre

    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

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

  • CARVALHO, Jorge

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

    Publications:

  • CASAL, Geneviève

    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

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

  • CASARTELLI, Louis Charles

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

    CASSIANO DA MACERATA (lay Giovanni Beligatti).CASTAGNÉ, Joseph-Antoine

    CASTAGNÉ, Joseph-Antoine. Gaillac (Tarn) 27.11.1875 — Montpellier 19.1.1958. French Traveller, long time in Russian Central Asia (Uzbekistan). Studied in Toulouse. From 1902 teacher of French in Orenburg near Kazakh ...

  • CASTANHEDA, Fernão Lopes de

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

  • CASTRO, João de

    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

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

  • CAUTLEY, Proby T.

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

  • CAVE, Henry W.

    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

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

  • ČERNYŠEV, Vladimir Aleksandrovič
    ČERNYŠEV, Vladimir Aleksandrovič. v s. Ljubicke (Pugačevskij raion Saratovskij obl.) 15.7.1927 — 10.10.1999. Russian Indologist (Hindi). Son of a farmer, graduated 1953 in Moscow. In ...
  • CERTO, Vera
    CERTO, Vera. 1??? — ????. Italian. In 1951 mentioned in connection of Pettazzoni.
    Publications: “Il genio poetico dell’India: riflesso nel ...
  • CHADWICK, H. Munro

    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

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

  • CHAMBERS, Robert

    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

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

  • CHANDLER, John S.

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

  • CHANNING, Eva

    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

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

  • CHAPMAN, Charles

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

  • CHAPMAN, Francis Robert Henry

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

  • CHAPMAN, Isham J

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

  • CHAPPELL, David
    CHAPPELL, David Wellington. Saint John, New Brunswick 3.2.1940 — Laguna Hills, CAL 2.12.2004. Canadian Buddhist Scholar in the U.S.A. Son of Hayward Lynsin Ch. and Mary ...
  • CHARDIN, Jean (Sir John Chardin)

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

  • CHARENCEY, Hyacinthe, comte de

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

  • CHARPENTIER, Jarl

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

  • CHATALIAN, George
    CHATALIAN, George. 22.11.1920 — 17.6.1997. U.S. Philosopher and Buddhist Scholar. Educated at Brown University (A.B.) and Harvard (Ph.D. 1968). In the early 1970s teaching (Western?) philosophy at ...
  • CHAVANNES, Édouard

    CHAVANNES, Emanuel-Édouard. Lyon 5.10.1865 ...

  • CHAVÉE, Honoré-Joseph

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

  • CHEN (Ch’en), Kenneth K. S.
    CHEN (Ch’en), Kenneth Kuan-Sheng. Honolulu 20.9.1907 — 25.4.1993. U.S. Indologist (Buddhist scholar). Son of Hua-hsiu Ch’en and Chu See. Studies at University of Hawaii (A.B. ...
  • CHENEVIX TRENCH, Charles Godfrey

    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.

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

  • CHEVALIER, Jean-Baptiste

    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

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

  • CHIEFALÀ, Nicol

    CHIEFALÀ, Nicola —> KEPHALA, Nikolaos

  • CHILDE, V. Gordon

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

  • CHILDERS, Robert C.

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

  • CHOUNAVEL, Constant

    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

    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

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

  • CHRISTIAN, John

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

  • CHRISTOPHER, Willmott

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

  • CIARDI-DUPRÉ, Giuseppe

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

  • CIMMINO, Francesco

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

  • CINNOMA, Leonardo

    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

    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

    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

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

  • CLARK, Thomas Welbourne

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

  • CLARK, Walter Eugene

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

  • CLARKE, Annie Barber

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

  • CLARKE, Charles Baron

    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

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

  • CLAUSON, Gerard L. M.

    CLAUSON, Gerard Leslie Makins. Valletta, ...

  • CLAWITER, Walter

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

  • CLAYTON, Albert Charles

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

  • CLEGHORN, Hugh

    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

    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

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

  • CLEMENS, ?

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

    Publications: Perhaps nothing.

  • CLEMENTS, Ernest S

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

  • CLINT, Leonidas

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

  • CLOSS, Alois

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

  • CLOUGH, Benjamin

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

  • COATS (Coates), Thomas

    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

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

  • COCKBURN, John

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

  • CODRINGTON, Humphrey William

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

  • CODRINGTON, K. de B.

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

  • CODRINGTON, Oliver

    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.

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

  • CŒURDOUX, Gaston

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

  • COGNI, Giulio

    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

    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

    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

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

  • COLE, Henry

    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 H.

    COLE, Henry Hardy. Kensington ?.8.1843 — Oxford 23.12.1916. British Architect and Engineer Officer in India. Son of —> ...

  • COLE, Robert Andrews

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

  • COLEBROOKE SUTHERLAND, James Charles

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

  • COLEBROOKE, Henry Thomas

    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

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

  • COLES, Stephen

    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 ...

  • COLETTI, Alessandro
    COLETTI, Alessandro. Trieste 1928 — Rome 1985 Italian Linguist. Studied law at Bologna. As teacher in Italian school in Egypt learned Arabian. In 1973-74 in Italian Intitute ...
  • COLINET, Philémon

    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

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

  • COLLIN, August Zacharias

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

  • COLLINS, Georges

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

  • COLLINS, Mark

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

  • COLLINS, Richard

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

  • COLLITZ, Hermann

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

  • COMBAZ, Gisbert

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

  • CONGER, George P.

    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

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

  • CONIO, Caterina

    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

    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

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

    CONRAD, Dieter. 1932 — 2001. German Scholar of Indian Law. Dr.iur. 1963 Heidelberg (diss. not on South Asia). Senior Research Fellow at South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, was ...

  • CONRADY, August

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

  • CONTI, Niccolò

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

  • CONZE, Edward

    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

    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

    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

    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

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

  • COPLESTON, Reginald Stephen

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

  • CORAL-REMUSAT, Gilberte de

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

  • CORBIN, Henry

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

  • 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 ...

  • CORDIER, Palmyr

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

  • CORDINER, James

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

  • CORNYN, William S.

    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

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

  • CORSALI, Andrea

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

  • CORYAT, Thomas

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

  • COSERIU, Eugenio

    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

    COSQUIN, Emmanuel-Georges. Vitry-le-François (Marne) 25.6.1841 — ibid. 18.4.1919. French FolkloristCOSTA DE MACEDO, Joaquim José da. Lisbon 25.4.1777 — Golegã 15.3.1867. Portuguese Historian. Son of Professor Agostinho José da ...

  • COSTA, Baltasar da

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

  • COSTA, Baltasar da

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

  • COSTA, Cristovão da

    COSTA, Cristovão da —> ACOSTA, Cristovão d

  • COSTA, Giulio

    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

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

  • COTTON, Arthur Thomas

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

  • COTTON, Gérard

    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

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

  • COURT, Auguste

    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

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

  • COURTILLIER, Gaston

    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

    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

    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

    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. 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 B.

    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

    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

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

  • COX, Edmund C.

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

  • COX, Edward T.

    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

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

  • CRAIG, James Alexander

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

  • CRANE, Robert I.

    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 C., Jr.

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

  • CRAVEN, Thomas

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

  • CRAWFURD, John

    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

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

  • CROMPTON, Arthur

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

  • CROOKE, William

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

  • CROSBY, Josiah

    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

    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

    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

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

  • CUMMINGS, Thomas F.

    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

    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

    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 D.

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

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

  • CUTLER, Harriet B. L.

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

  • CUTLER, Norman
    CUTLER, Norman. Silver Spring Md. 10.5.1949 — 26.2.2002. U.S. Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Educated at University of Michigan (A.B.), University of Washing­ton (M.A.) and University of Chicago (Ph.D. ...
  • CUTTAT, Jacques-Albert

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

  • CUTTS, Elmer H.

    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

    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

    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

    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 ...

  • HANTRAINE, Pierre Louis

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