DAMANT, Guybon Henry. Cowes, Isle of Wight 9.5.1846 — Khonoma (now in Kohima dt.), Nagaland 14.10.1879. British Civil Servant and Ethnologist in India (1869-79). Son of Henry James Damant (1816–1901), a lawyer, and Elizabeth Johnson Knight (1823–1906). Educated at St. Paul’s School (or Merchant Taylor’s School?) in London. Studies from…
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DALTON, Ormonde Maddock. Cardiff 30.1.1866 — Holford, Somerset 2.2.1945. British Art Historian and Classical Scholar, a Specialist of Early Christian Art. Son of Thomas Masters Dalton (1830–1908), a lawyer, and Emily Mansford, educated at Harrow and at New College, Oxford. Travelled in France, Germany, Austria (studied under Strzygowski), and India.…
DALTON, Edward Tuite (or Tuite-Dalton). Ireland 17.8.1815 — Cannes 30.12.1880. British (Irish) Colonial Officer and Ethnologist in India. Son of music composer Edward Tuite Dalton (1783–1821) and Olivia Stevenson (1792–1834). Educated at Harrow. “Entered the Army, 1835; in expeditions against frontier tribes of Assam 1839-40, and 1842, commanded an expedition…
DALGLEISH, Andrew. Edinburgh 1853 — near Karakorum 6.4.1888. British (Scottish) Tradesman, Traveller, Spy and Geographer of Central Asia. Quitted his place as apprentice to a copper-plate engraver when 18, then five years apprentice in a trading vessel, visited many Asian ports. When 23 left sea life and became the manager…
DALGADO, Sebastião Rodolfo. Assagão village near Mapuça (Mapusa), Goa 8.5.1855 — Lisbon 4.4.1922. Monsenhor. Indo-Portuguese Indologist. Professor in Lisbon. Born in a Brahman family, his ancestors were called Desai. Son of Ambrose Dalgado, a landowner in Bardez, and Florinda Rosa de Souza. School in Assagão and Mapuça, Goa, studies of…
DALES, George Franklin, Jr. Akron, Ohio 13.8.1927 — Berkeley 18.4.1992. U.S. Archaeologist. Professor in Berkeley. Son of G. F. Dales, Sr. (1902–1990) and his wife Anita (see below). In 1945-48 served in marine corps in China, then studied at University of Akron (B.A. 1953 in Classical studies) and University of…
DAHLMANN, Joseph. Koblenz 14.10.1861 — Tokyo 22.6.1928. Father. S.J. German Indologist, later in Japan. Son of a tailor, Johann Simon Dahlmann (1831–1905), and Catharina Schulten (1827–1892), educated in 1873-78 at Feldkirchen Jesuit College, joined the S.J. in the age of 17 in 1878. Studies in the Netherlands, the U.K. and…
DAHLKE, Paul Wilhelm Eduard. Osterode, Ostpreussen (now Ostróda, Poland) 25.1.1865 — Berlin-Frohnau 29.2.1928. German Bauddha, Physician in Berlin. The eldest child of a civil servant, August Dahlke and Wilhelmine Reinholz, a poor family. Gymnasium in Osnabrück, Hannover and Frankfurt a.M., from 1883 studied medicine in Berlin and specialized in homeopathy.…
DAALEN, Leendert (Leen) Antonius van. Schemed, Groningen 30.4.1939 — Hilversum 1.10.1993. Dutch Indologist. Studied Classical Philology at Utrecht (M.A. 1966), then Indology (M.A. 1970) under Gonda. Ph.D. 1980 Utrecht (Bodewitz) with a thesis, which called much international discussion, though mostly deemed unsuccesful. In 1966-92 Lecturer of Sanskrit at Utrecht, moved…