CASAL, Jean-Marie. Troyes 30.6.1905 — Antibes 12.12.1977. French Archaeologist. Husband of —> Geneviève Casal (née Bell, 1909–2002). After studies of Law he started a commercial career, but captivity during the WW II changed his life. After the war he studied at Louvre under Ph. Stern, and met there his future…
CARVALHO, Jorge. fl. 1554. Indian Christian from the Paravar community of Tuticorin, living in Lisbon. Publications: Translated a small Catechism from Portuguese into Tamil together with Vicente de Nazareth and Thome da Cruz, published as Romanized text in 1554 (Cartilha em lingoa Tamul e Portugues). Sources: Wikipedia on Printing in…
CARUS, Paul Gottfried Christian. Ilsenburg am Harz 18.7.1852 — La Salle, Ill. 11.2.1919. German Philosopher and Scholar of Comparative Religion in the U.S.A. Son of a Lutheran pastor, Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Carus (1819–1889), and Laura Krueger (1829–1897). School in Posen and Stettin (where Grassmann was his teacher), studied philosophy, classics…
CARTER, Charles Henry. Leicestershire 29.10.1828 — Auckland 6.7.1914. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in Sri Lanka. Son of Thomas Carter, a stonemason, and Anne Thomson, raised near Leicester. Worked first as miller, but found religion, became Baptist and from 1849 studied at Horton College, learning Hebrew and Greek. Arrived in the…
CARTELLIERI, Wilhelm. Eger (in Bohemia, now Cheb) 23.6.1860 — Innsbruck 29.5.1908. Austrian Indologist. Professor in Innsbruck. Son of Paul Cartellieri (1807–1881, a noted physician and son of the Italian composer in Germany and Bohemia Antonio Casimir Cartellieri), and Wilhelmine Padine Henriette Mathilde Kraft (1823–1894). Gymnasium in Eger and Leitmeritz (Litomerice).…
CARRÉ, Barthélémy. 1636 — after 1699. Abbé. French Traveller. Of Blois, educated by Jesuits, took religious career and was ordained priest. From 1662 served in the navy, apparently as chaplain, in Atlantic, Mediterranian and Levant. Sent by Colbert with F. Caron to Madagascar, they arrived at Surat in 1669. Carré…
CARR, Mark William. 12.2.1833 — on Malabar coast 15.1.1871. British Colonial Officer in South India. From Northumberland, son of Sir William Carr (1803–1854), a solicitor, and Charlotte Jefferson (1808–1885). From 1862 Assistant Inspector General of Madras Police, from 1870 Major of Madras Staff Corps. Lost in the wreck of General…
CARPENTER, Joseph Estlin. Ripley, Guildford Borough, Surrey 5.10.1844 — Oxford 2.6.1927. Rev. British Indologist (Pāli scholar), Unitarian Theologian and Scholar of Religion. Son of William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), a well-known biologist and unitarian, and Louisa Powell, nephew of —> Mary Carpenter (1807–1877). Educated at University College School in London, then…
CÀRPANI, Enrico Gerardo. 1912 — 1963. Italian Scholar of Religion. In Bologna. Ph.D. In 1946-47 he was campaigning on behalf of the Roerich Pact. In 1956 apparently still in Bologna. According to Franci his works are rather superficial and of introductory type. He was “indologo di limitata originalità, ma persona…
CAROE, Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse. Chelsea, London 15.11.1892 — Steyning (Worthing?), Sussex 29.11.1981. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Son of architect William Douglas Caroe and Grace Desborough Rendall, educated at Winchester College. From 1911 studied classics at Magdalen College, Oxford. M.A. In 1914-19 captain 4th Bn. The Queen’s Regiment in…