GILES, Herbert Allen. Oxford 8.12.1845 — Cambridge 13.2.1935. British Sinologist. Professor in Cambridge. Son of Rev. John Allen Giles (1808–1884), an editor and translator, and Anna Sarah Dickinson. Educated at Charterhouse. In 1867 joined consular service and went to Peking, served as vice-consul and consul in various parts of China.…
GILDEMEISTER, Johannes Gustav. Klein-Piemen (now Kröpelin), Mecklenburg 20.7.1812 — Bonn 11.3.1890. German Indologist and Orientalist. Professor in Marburg and Bonn. Born in Mecklenburg countryside in a Bremenian patrician family, son of Johann Gildemeister (1784–1844), a merchant and journalist, and Maria Anne Catharine Wienholt (1786–1856). Gymnasium in Bremen, learned there Hebrew…
GILCHRIST, John Borthwick (born John Hay G.). Edinburgh 19.6.1759 — Paris 9.1.1841. British (Scottish) Indologist, a Pioneer of Hindi-Urdu Studies. Son of merchant Walter Gilchrist and Henrietta Farquharson (1730–1830), lost his father at the age of one. After school in Edinburgh studies of medicine at George Heriot’s Hospital, Edinburgh. Joined…
GIEDDE (Gjedde), Ove. Tommarp, (then Danish) 17.12.1594 — Copenhagen 19.12.1660. Danish Admiral, the founder of Trankebar. Son of Brostrup Giedde (1560?–1614) and Dorthe Ulfeldt (1564?–1622). In 1609-12 at a school of nobility in Sorø, 1612-14 at German universities. In 1618 he was ordered by the king to lead an expedition…
GIBBS, James. Walbrook, Middlesex 1825 — Bombay (?) 30.10.1886. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Right Hon. Michael Gibbs (Lord Mayor of London 1845, d. 1858). Educated at Merchant Taylor’s and Haileybury, 1844-46. In 1846 joined the Bombay Civil Service. “Judicial Assistant to the Commissioner in Sind; Special Commissioner…
GIACOMINO, Claudio. Turin 17.6.1848 — 1923. Italian Teacher and Linguist. Ph.D. Professor ord. of “lettere latine e greche” at R. Liceo M. d’Azeglio in Turin. Earlier probably at R. Liceo Chiabrera in Savona. Publications: “Saggiuoli neoindiani”, Miscellanea Ascoli. Milano 1907, 129-143; review of Osthoff & Brugmann, Morphol. Untersuchungen, RFIC 7,…
GHIRSHMAN, Tania (born Antoinette Levienne). Constantinople 1900 — 1984. The wife and competent helper of —> Roman Ghirshman (1895–1979), like him, of Ukrainian origin. Daughter of a merchant, spent early years in Russia (Baku), but when she was six, the family moved to Paris. She became a dental surgeon, but…
GHIRSHMAN, Roman (Roman Mihajlovič Giršman). Harkiv 3.10.1895 — Budapest 5.9.1979. Russian (Ukrainian) Archaeologist of Iran in France. “Le duc de Suse”. Born in a wealthy Jewish family in Ukraine (then part of Russia) he became in 1914 an officer in Russian army and fought in WW 1 and in the…
GHILAIN, Antoine. Petit-Rœulx-les-Braine, Hainaut 25.1.1901 — Arquennes, Hainaut 1.4.1947. Abbé. Belgian Catholic Priest and Schoolteacher, Iranian Scholar specialized in Parthian. After school in Soignies attended the seminaries of Bonne-Espérance near Binche (Hainaut) and Tournai. Ordained as priest in 1924. Studied at Leuven (cand.phil. 1926), then taught Latin and Greek at…
GHICA, Elena (nom-de-plume Dora D’Istria), princess (in marriage Duchess Koltsova-Massalskaja). Bucharest 3.2.1828 — Florence 17.11.1888. Romanian Author, Historian and Pioneer of Feminism. Born in the princely family of Wallachia – she was niece to the reigning prince Grigore IV and Alexandra Ghica – as daughter of Mihai Ghica (1794–1850), an…