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 1952-56 taught at Institute of Foreign Languages of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Kand. filologičeskih nauk 1958, dr. filol. nauk 1983. From 1956 naučnyj sotrudnik…
CAMPBELL, William. Old Kilpatrick, Dumbartonshire 1799 — Islington, London 14.12.1878. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Studied surgery at Glasgow and Gosport. Joined London Missionary Society and ordained priest 1823 in Liverpool. From 1824-35 worked twelve years in India (Bangalore), then returned to the U.K. because of his wife’s poor…
COSTA, Giulio. Imola 11.11.1901 — Mendal, Tura, Meghalaya 16/17.4.1970. S.D.B. Father. Italian Catholic Missionary in Assam. First a school teacher, but in 1924 decided to become missionary, After one year at missionary college in Ivrea came to Assam in 1925. Noviciate in Shillong, first vows in 1927, ordained priest 1931.…
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 Bălţi. Studies at Iaşi and from 1940 at Sapienza in Rome. Ph.D. 1944 Rome. In 1944-45 taught at Padova, 1945-49 at Milano (second Ph.D. there in philosophy).…
CORNYN, William Stewart. Vancouver 16.7.1906 — 15.3.1971. Canadian Burmese and Russian Scholar in the U.S.A. Son of John Cornyn (1868–1907) and Lillian M. Stewart (1878–1929). In 1922 moved to Los Angeles, worked as stock clerk, hall boy, and bookkeeper, 1924-28 insurance clerk in San Francisco, then back to Los Angeles.…
COOPER, Roland Edgar. Kingston-on-Thames, London 16.6.1890 — Southend-on-Sea, Essex 31.1.1962. British Botanist. Son of Harry Conrad Cooper, an auctioneer who after divorce (November 1890) moved to Australia and died there 1912, and Jessie Huntsman (d. 1893). Lost early his parents and from 1905 was raised by his aunt Emma Smith…
CONRAD, Dieter (Dietrich). 1932 — 1.6.2001. 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 in Charge of its Department of Law from 1963 until his retirement in 1997. Married, at least one son. Publications: Diss.…
CONNER, Peter Eyre. 5.8.1789 (hardly 1794) — Hyderabad 29.4.1821. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant of Madras infantry. Together with Lieutenant —> Benjamin S. Ward conducted the survey of Travancore and Cochin 1810-21, organised by C. Mackenzie. Publications: “Description of the Hill Tribes in Travancore”, MJLS 1, 1834, 1-7; “Extract from…
COATS (Coates), Thomas. 1774 — 13.1.1828. British Physician in India. From 1807 he spent many years in Poona (Pune) residence as superintending surgeon of auxiliary forces in Peshva’s time. Campaigned against orthodox opposition on behalf of the small pox vaccination. In 1820 returned to the U.K. using land route. Then…
CLEMEN, Carl Christian. Sommerfeld bei Leipzig 30.3.1865 — Bonn 8.7.1940. German Protestant Theologian and Historian of Religion (especially Iranian). Professor in Bonn. Son of Oberkirchenrat Christian August Julius Clemen (1838–1920) and Helene Voigt, educated at Fürstenschule in Grimma. Studies of theology at Leipzig, Tübingen, Halle and Berlin. PD 1892 Halle. From…