FAIANI, Antonio. 17.8.1859 — 19??. Italian School-Teacher interested in Indology. Director of R. Liceo-Ginnasio Massimo d’Azeglio in Turin. Perhaps lived into an advanced age. But sources are contradictory. One Antonio Faiani of Verona has life years 1859–1933. However, Pullé in OC 10, 1894, 2:10 ascribes the Meghadūta to the Director…
FAIRBANKS, Gordon Hubert. Calgary, Alberta 22.3.1913 — Honolulu, Hawaii 13.7.1985. Canadian Linguist in the U.S.A., NIA, IE, Russian and Armenian Scholar. Citizen of the U.S.A. Professor in Ithaca, Manoa and Urbana. Son of Hubert Fairbanks (1892–1970) and Constance Maud Bullock. Educated at Mount Royal College in Calgary, studies at at…
FURNIKA, Vitalij Petrovič. Dovžanka near Ternopil, western Ukraine 14.10.1940 — 16.4.1993. Ukrainian Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Son of a farmer. From 1965 studies in Leningrad (Rudin) and 1969-70 in Madras. Graduated 1970 from Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1979. From 1975 editor of the Progress and from 1882-89 of the Raduga, then…
FUMI, Fausto Gherardo. Montepulciano (Tuscany) 17.10.1840 — Genoa 1915. Italian Linguist interested in Sanskrit Literature. Studies at Pisa (under Bardelli, diplome 1862), Florence and Leipzig. First teacher in Liceo di Reggio-Calabria, then taught at University of Palermo in 1887-90 and from 1890 at Genoa, where he became ord. Professor of…
FUGLSANG, Niels Studsgaard. Holeby, Laaland (Lolland) 19.11.1759 — Slagelse, Sorø 29.12.1832. Danish Priest in India. Son of Herman Fuglsang (1700–1777), a vicar, and Lucie Abelone Studsgaard. After school in Aalborg studied from 1778 philology, medicine and theology at Copenhagen. Ordained priest 1792. Minister of the Danish Lutheran congregation in Trankebar…
FÜRST, Alfons. Sulzdorf/O.-A. Aalen near Ulm 21.2.1892 — 19??. German student of Indology. Son of a farmer, educated in Hüttlingen, at Latinschule in Rottenburg and 1907-11 at Gymnasium of Ehingen. From 1911 studies of philosophy, theology and philology at Tübingen, soon Indology under Garbe. Ph.D. 1915 Tübingen. Publications: Diss. Der…
FÜRER-HAIMENDORF, Christoph(er) von. Vienna 27.6.1909 — London 11.6.1995. Austrian Anthropologist in the U.K. Professor in London. Son of Rudolf Fürer von H., an Austrian civil servant, of an ancient German family of nobility. Educated at Theresianische Akademie of Vienna University and studied anthropology and archaeology. Student of W. Schmidt, Koppers,…
FÜHRER, Alois Anton. Limburg an der Lahn 26.11.1853 — Binningen near Basel 5.11.1930. German Indologist and Archaeologist in India. Studies of Catholic Theology and Oriental languages at Würzburg. Ordained priest 1877. Ph.D. 1879 Würzburg (apparently under Jolly), soon to India. After a while as Professor of Sanskrit at St. Xavier…
FUCHS, Rudolf. Heidelberg 19.1.1877 — 1941. German Student of Indology. Son of Lazarus Fuchs, a Professor of Mathematics (1833–1902; originally a Jew from Posen, converted in 1860), and Marie Anders. Educated in Heidelberg and several Gymnasiums in Berlin, where his father had got a chair. Studied at Berlin classical and…
FRYER, John. 1650? — London 31.3.1733. British Physician and Traveller in India and Iran. Son of William Fryer, of London. Studies of medicine at Cambridge, first at Trinity College, in 1671 moved to Pembroke College. M.B. 1671, M.D. 1683. Employed by E.I.C. embarked to India in 1672, returned after many…