JELLINGHAUS, Theodor. Šlissel’burg (Schlüsselburg) near St.Petersburg 21.6.1841 — Berlin 4.10.1913. German Missionary in India. Born in Russia, son of a Pietist Minister. Gymnasium in Gütersloh, matriculated 1861. After theology studies he was missionary of Gossner Mission in Chota Nagpur, India 1866-70. Then minister in Rädnitz (Radnica) and from 1881 in…
JAMES, Walter Knight. Radford, Nottinghamshire ?.10.1853 — 1???. British Teacher in Sri Lanka. Son of Walter Redhead James (1829–1894) and Clara Ann Fisher. In Sri Lanka. Principal of the Normal College, Colombo (1881). In 1890 he moved to the U.S.A. and was then living in Cincinnati. Married 1881 Julia Ann…
JAGOR, Andreas Fedor. Berlin 30.11.1816 — Berlin 11.2.1900. German Anthropologist and Naturalist. Worked for Berlin Museum für Naturkunde. In 1859-61 travelled in India, South-East Asia and Pacific, then in 1873-76 and 1890-93 in Indonesia. Also collected plants. A keen photographer. His collections and photos were deposited in Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde.…
JACOBY, Gustav Adolf (Adolphe). 9.3.1875 — 10.10.1943. German Theologian, Papyrologist, Coptologist and Scholar of Religion. Studies at Strassburg, vicar there in 1900-04. Minister in Weitersweilen (Rhineland) 1904-12, then many years in Luxemburg. Married Alice Schaller (b. 1878). Publications: Much on classical and Christian religion, also on Coptic literature. – “Zum Zerstückelungs- und…
JACKSON, Welby Brown. Ilford, Essex (London) 30.12.1802 — 17.11.1890.British Civil Servant and Artist in India. Son of Sir John Jackson, Bart. (1763–1820), M.P., and Charlotte Spry Gorham (1772–1807). To India before 1830, 1852 still there, 1856 in England and then lived long in Upton, Buckinghamshire (still there 1881). At some time…
JOSEPH, Gerard Abraham. Colombo 6.4.1870 — 14.3.1922 (when 52). Sri Lankan Burgher Civil Servant. Member of Ceylon Civil Service. Son of Abraham Orlando Joseph (1812–1897) and Louisa van Langenberg (1842–1886), From 1893 to his death Secretary and Librarian of Colombo Museum, in the late 1910s also its acting director. Married…
JOSA, Fortunato Pietro Luigi. Rome 5.6.1851 — Port Isaac, Cornwall 19.12.1922. Italian Missionary in the U.K. and South America. Son of Filippo and Agnese Josa. Raised as Catholic, but took Protestant faith, probably in England. Graduated 1871 from St. Augustine’s. College, Canterbury. Ordained deacon 1874 and priest 1875 in Guyana.…
JOINVILLE, Joseph Endelin de (rarely as de Jonville). 17?? — 18??. French Naturalist. Came to Ceylon in 1798 with Governor North, worked as surveyor-general, left the island in 1805 and disappears. A linguist, cartographer, botanist and artist. One Joseph de Joinville lived in 1753–1821, but no details about him are…
JUNGMANN, Antonín Jan (Anton Johann, Ritter von Jungmann). Hudlitz (Hudlice), Beroun district, Bohemia 19.5.1775 — Prague 10.4.1854. Czech Physician interested in Sanskrit. Son of a German father, Thomas Simon Jungmann, a cobbler, and Czech mother, Kateřina Jungmannová, brother of —> A. J. Jungmann (1773–1847). After school in Prague he was…
JOYES, William Boardman Walter. Madras 9.8.1828 — Ootacamund 11.7.1878. British Teacher in India. Son of Walter Patrick Joyes (1796–1833) and Mary Ann Boardman (1805–1871), a family residing in Madras from the grandfather’s (Major Patrick Joyes) time. Professor of Vernacular Languages at Presidency College, Madras, until death. Married 1857 Clara Clarissa…