CAMPBELL, Donald. Barbreck, Argyll 1751 — Hutton, Essex 5.6.1804. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer. Son of an E.I.C. officer, politically a Hanoverian family. A cavalry officer (captain), travelled to India via Venice, Aleppo, Baghdad, Bushire, and Bombay. On way to Madras he was shipwrecked and captured by the soldiers of Hyder…
CALMEYER, Peter. Halle 5.9.1930 — Berlin 22.11.1995. German Archaeologist and Iranian Scholar. Son of Hans Georg Calmeyer (1903–1972), an attorney-at-law, and his wife Ruth, from 1932 grew up in Osnabrück. After matriculation from Osnabrück studied from 1950 classical archaeology at Münster and Munich, 1954-55 in Copenhagen, from 1955 Near Eastern…
CUTLER, Norman. Silver Spring Md. 10.5.1949 — Chicago 26.2.2002. U.S. Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Son of Sidney J. Cutler (1817–1993) and his wife Sylvia. Educated at University of Michigan (A.B.), University of Washington (M.A.) and from 1975 at University of Chicago (Ph.D. under A. K. Ramanujan). In the middle of the…
COLETTI, Alessandro. Trieste 1928 — Rome 1985 Italian Linguist. Studied law at Bologna. As teacher in Italian school in Egypt learned Arabic. In 1973-74 in Italian Intitute in Teheran (studied Persian and Kurdish), in 1975 visited Afghanistan and Pakistan (now learned Pashto and Urdu). Professor. Married Hanne Grünbaum (of Denmark,…
COHN, Bernard Samuel. Brooklyn, N.Y. 13.5.1928 — Chicago 25.11.2003. U.S. Anthropologist. Son of Nathan Cohn and Blanche Herz. Graduated from University of Wisconsin (B.A. 1949) and Cornell University (Ph.D. 1954). In 1956-60 Research Assistant at University of Chicago, field-work in India 1957-59. In 1960-64 Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rochester…
CHEN (Ch’en), Kenneth Kuan-Sheng. Honolulu 20.9.1907 — 25.4.1993. U.S. Indologist (Buddhist scholar). Son of Hua-hsiu Ch’en, who had moved to Hawaii from South China and bought a rice plantation, and his wife Chu See. Studies at University of Hawaii (A.B. 1931), at Harvard-Yenching University in Peking (M.A. 1934), at University of…
CHATALIAN, George (Keorken Ch.). 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 Franklin Pierce College. In 1983 at Department of Philosophy, University of Ife in Ife-Ife, Nigeria, then also at Lagos University. Finally living…
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 Chappell (1902–1970) and Mary Elvira Mosher. B.A. 1961 Mount Allison University. B.D. 1965 McGill University. Ph.D. 1976 Yale, in History of Religions. In 1964-66 Minister of United Church…
CERTO, Vera. 1??? — ????. Italian. In 1951 mentioned in connection of Pettazzoni. Publications: “Il genio poetico dell’India: riflesso nel sanscrito”, Atti dell’Accademia degli Arcadi e scritti dei soci anno 12, vol. 2, 1928, 5-28. – Il mondo dei cieli nella lingua sanscritta. 34 p. Città del Vaticano 1930. – Translation from English…