ARIEL, Édouard-Simon. Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) 5.10.1818 — Pondichéry 23.4.1854. French Marine Officer and Indologist (Tamil scholar) in India. Son of Simon Ariel, lieutenant of royal customs in Nantes, and Victoire-Aglaë Gaultron. From 1836 in navy, first in Nancy port, in 1840-44 in marine administration in Paris, now also student of Burnouf.…
ARENDT, Carl. Berlin 1.12.1838 — Berlin 29./30.1.1902. German Sinologist, a Student of Bopp. Son of a schoolteacher, himself educated at Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin. From 1856-59 studies of linguistics at Berlin under Bopp and Steinthal, started early to write on IE questions. On Bopp’s advice he went to China in…
ARDEN, Albert Henry. Longcroft, Staffordshire 5.5.1841 — on sea 7.11.1897. Rev. British Missionary in South India, a Dravidian Scholar. Son of a clerk, Thomas Arden (1796–1860), and Isabella Mary Cooper (1795–1860), educated at Kepton and Christ College, Cambridge (B.A. 1861, M.A. 1863), ordained 1864. Missionary in South India 1864-74, then…
ARCHER, William George (“Bill”). 11.2.1907 — Islington, London 6.3.1979. British Ethnologist and Art Historian of India. In India 1931-48, then in Victoria and Albert Museum. Son of William Archer, educated at Strand School. Studied history at Cambridge (Emmanuel College, M.A.) and aspired for a good position in Whitehall, but poor…
ARCHER, John Clark. Wilma, Maryland 23.12.1881 — Hamden, Conn. 7.7.1957. U.S. Missionary and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Son of John Archer (1809–1888) and Virginia Augusta Clark (1855–1954). Father died early and in 1891 his mother married —> G. W. Brown (he is thus half-brother of W. N. Brown). Educated at…
ARBUTHNOT, Forster Fitzgerald. Belgaum, Bombay Presidency 21.5.1833 — London 25.5.1901. British (Scottish) Civil Servant and Oriental Scholar in India. Son of Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, 2nd Bart. (1801–1873), and Anne Forster Fitzgerald (1799–1882), educated privately in Anhalt and Genoa. In 1851 went to Haileybury, in 1853 joined Bombay Civil Service…
ARBMAN, Ernst Gottfrid. Sundsvall 12.4.1891 — Stockholm 16.11.1959. Swedish Scholar of Indology and Comparative Religion. Son of Olof Emanuel Arbman (1817–1921), vicar in Borgsjö, and Maria Kristina Hasselberg, educated in Östersund. Studies at Uppsala, first of Theology (Cand.Theol. 1914), then Indology (under Johansson and Charpentier) and Religion, Cand. Philos. 1917,…
ARANY, János. Nagyszalonta (now Salonta in Romania) 2.3.1817 — Budapest 22.10.1882. Hungarian Poet, Translator and Journalist. Son of György Arany (1762–1844) and Sára Megyeri (1772–1836). After a chequered early life he was teacher at a gymnasium in Nagykőrös from 1850, from 1860 in Budapest. 1865 secretary of the Hungarian Academy,…
ANVILLE, J. B. B. d’ —> J. B. BOURGUIGNON D’ANVILLE.
ANTON, Konrad Gottlob. Lauban, Oberlausitz (Lubań in Poland) 29.11.1745 — Dresden 4.7.1814. German Oriental (Hebrew) Scholar and Linguist. Professor in Wittenberg. In one source (Gel. T.) born in 1743. Son of Günter Konrad Anton, a belter, and Maria Magdalene Zimmer. Studies at Leipzig. From 1775 Professor of Oriental (i.e. Semitic)…