EVEREST, George. Gwerndale near Brecon, Wales 4.6.1790 — London 1.12.1866. Sir. British (Welsh) Colonial Officer (Military Engineer) and Geographer in India. Eponymous for Mount Everest. Son of Tristram E., educated at the military schools of Great Marlow and Woolwitch. Came to India as cadet in 1806 and served in Bengal…
EVANS-WENTZ, Walter Yeeling (born Wentz, added his mother’s surname c. 1910). Trento NJ 2.2.1878 — Encinitas, Calif. 17.7.1966. U.S. Traveller, Anthropologist and Tibetologist. Son of Christopher Wentz, a wealthy estate owner from New Jersey with German origin, and Mary Evans Cook, of Irish descent. Originally Baptist, his father turned to…
ETTINGHAUSEN, Maurice Leon. Paris 25.1.1883 — Oxford 14.11.1974. French (Jewish) student of Indology. Son of Herman Lionel E. and Henriette M. Oppenheimer. Ph.D. 1906 Paris. Later worked as antiquarian bookseller in Paris and New York. Famous bibliophile. Married Hedwig Kahn, two sons and one daughter, then Beatrice Maud. Publications: Diss.…
ESTÊVÃO, Tomás —> Stephens, Thomas.
ESTELLER Y MELIÀ, Adolfo. Alcanar (Montsià) near Valencia 10.1.1899 — 18.3.1984. S.J. Spanish Indologist in India. Professor in Bombay. Son of estate manager Hermengildo E. and Elisa Melia. Joined the S.J. 1914. Educated in Castellon and Zaragoza, then studies of philosophy at Pontificia Universitá Gregoriana in Rome (Ph.D. there 1921).…
ESSERS, Bénard. Den Helder (North Holland) ?.8.1919 — Beekbergen, (Gelderland) 23.6.1960. Dutch Theologian interested in Indology. Studies at Amsterdam (Faddegon and Lohuizen-De Leeuw). Th.D. 1952 Groningen (under T. C. Vriezen). Married 1951 Jansje Dieuwke (Annette) ten Berge, known as a singer and painter, two children. Publications: Diss. Vāc: het woord…
ESSER, Alexander Albert Maria. Düsseldorf 25.1.1885 — Düsseldorf 4.2.1972. German Physician interested in Sanskrit. Son of Wilhelm E., owner of a brewery. After school in Düsseldorf began law studies at Freiburg i.Br., but soon medicine at Bonn, Berlin, Freiburg and Heidelberg. Dr.med. 1909 Heidelberg. In 1919-61 he was practising ophthalmologist…
ESNOUL, Anne-Marie. Saint-Malo, Bretagne 1908 — Saint-Malo 1996. French Indologist. After school in Saint-Malo and licence de philosophie in Paris, studied from 1934 Sanskrit under Masson-Oursel and Stchoupak. Diplome d’É.P.H.É. 1947, Ph.D. 196?. In 1941 she succeeded Stchoupak as the secretary-librarian of Institut de Civilisation Indienne in Paris, until 1966.…
ESCHMANN, Anncharlott. Munich 24.9.1941 — Delhi 6.4.1977. German Indologist. Daughter of Professor Ernst Wilhelm E., a Sociologist. Grew up in Ticino, Switzerland. From 1961 studies of Protestant theology, comparative religion and Indology at Munich, Marburg and Heidelberg. Ph.D. 1969. Joined the Orissa Project and started fieldwork in 1970. Assistant at…
ERSKINE, William. Edinburgh 8.11.1773 — Edinburgh 20.5.1852. British (Scottish) Civil Servant and Lawyer. 1804-23 in India. Son of David E., a lawyer, and Jean Melvin. Educated at Royal High School and Edinburgh University (dr. iuris). He “was a lawyer’s apprentice, 1792-9, went to India in 1803-4 with Sir James Mackintosh”,…