EMINESCU, Mihai (born Mihail Eminovici). Botoşani 15.1.1850 — Bucharest 15.6.1889. Romanian Poet interested in India. One of Romania’s most notable poets. Of somewhat unclear origin, son of a Moldavian potentate. Studied in Vienna 1869-72 and in Berlin 1872-74, philosophy, law, economics, Romance philology, even medicine, and privately many other things.…
EMELEN, Arthur Marie Joseph van. Leuven 2.3.1874 — Ranchi 17.8.1936. S.J. Father. Belgian Missionary in India. Son of Léon van E. and Catharina Sofia Casteleyn. Worked in Chota Nagpur and collaborated with —> J. B. Hoffmann. He was also interested in botany and developed plant nomenclature in Hindi and Mundari. An…
ELWIN, Harry Verrier Holman. Dover 29.8.1902 — Delhi 22.2.1964. British Anthropologist in India, Indian Citizen. Son of the Right Rev. Bishop Edmund Elwin (1871–1907) of Sierra Leone and Minnie Holman, lost his father when seven. Educated in Cheltenham, studies of English literature and theology from 1921 at Merton College, Oxford.…
ELWELL, Levi Henry. Northampton, Mass. 22.3.1854 — Amherst, Mass. 27.12.1916. U.S. Indologist and Classical scholar. Son of the elder Levi Henry E. (1820–1866) and Harriet Adeline Ross. Educated at Amherst College (B.A. 1875; M.A. 1878), and 1876-77 at Yale. In 1875-76 schoolteacher in New York state, then at Amherst College:…
ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart. Dumbarton, Scotland 6.10.1779 — Hookwood, Surrey 20.11.1859. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of John, the 11th Baron E., and Anne Ruthven. Educated in Edinburgh and Kensington. From 1795 writer in E.I.C.’s service, was sent to Benares, where he soon learned Persian and Hindi and barely escaped…
ELMORE, Wilber Theodore. Saint Charles, Kane county, Illinois 29.7.1871 — Wayne, Delaware 27.11.1935. Rev. U.S. Baptist Missionary in South India. Son of Jerome Humphrey E. and Emeline Sarah Hall. Ph.D. 1915 University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Worked in Rampatnam, Nellore dt. (1909 there) until 1918. Then in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1925…
ÈL’MANOVIČ, Spiridon Dmitrievič. Egor’evskij Syčevskij uezd, Smolensk gub. 1844/45 — 19??. Russian Translator (?). One of many children of Dmitrij Alekseevič È., a Russian Orthodox priest. Educated in Bel’ and at Smolensk spiritual seminary. In 1865-69 studied at St.Petersburg University Arabic and Persian, soon also Sanskrit. Worked as gymnasium teacher in…
ELLIS, Francis Whyte. 1777? — Ramnad (Ramanathapuram), Tamil Nadu 10.3.1819. British Civil Servant and Pioneer of Indology in India. From 1796 in Madras Civil Service, 1898 Deputy Secretary and 1802 Secretary to the Board of Revenue, 1810 Collector of Madras. Died of cholera (?). He was a pioneer of Dravidian…
ELLIOTT, Charles. London 10.12.1776 — London 4.5.1856. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Charles E., a cabinet-maker, and Sarah Ann Sherman. He “voluntarily passed through the college of Fort William, judge of Fatehghar at 30, judge of Bareli, Court of Appeal, Judge of the Sadr Court at Calcutta, 1821.…
ELLIOT, Walter. Edinburgh 16.1.1803 — Wolfelee, Roxburghshire 1.3.1887. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant, Indologist, Epigraphist and Naturalist in India. Son of James E. and Caroline Hunter (d. 1824), educated privately and in Cumberland and Doncaster. Appointed into a writership in E.I.C. he came to Haileybury in 1818 and to India…