PAULI, Carl Eugen. Barth, Vorpommern 14.10.1839 — Lugano, Switzerland 7.8.1901. German IE Scholar and Etruscologist. Son of Carl Johann Christian Pauli (1789–1856) and Henrica Roepke. Matriculated from Putbus, studies at Erlangen and Greifswald. Ph.D. 1862 Greifswald. Worked as schoolteacher in Stettin, from 1867 Lauenburg/Pommern, 1860 Hannoversch-Münden, 1873 Hannover and 1876-83…
PASTOR RODRÍGUEZ, Julián de. 18?? — 19??. Spanish Lawyer and Historian. Doctor en Derecho. In Sanskrit autodidact, taught it at the University of Zaragoza in 1869-70, later worked as notary in Madrid (still 1901). Publications: Wrote on Spanish history. Sources: Alvarez 54f.; scanty stray notes in Internet.
PARSONS, Francis Cotton. Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire 29.11.1867 — Lausanne, Vaud 23.12.1924. British Civil Servant in India. Son of a farmer, William Baldock Parsons, and Louisa Ambrose. Educated in Waterbeach and Reading, studied at Cambridge (Trinity College). Joined I.C.S. in 1886, served in different parts of South India. District and Sessions Judge…
PAPINIU, Eugen. 18?? — 19??. Romanian. In 1918 in London. One E. Papiniu (b. 1885) graduated in 1908 from Bucharest and was Ambassador in 1936. Bănăţeanu (Vi-BhQ 27, 1961, 258) calls the translator an “Indianist”. Publications: Translated directly from Sanskrit: Kālidāsa, Śakuntalā, dramă sanscrită, în româneşte de Eusebiu Camilar după…
PANGBORN, Cyrus Ransom. Mankato, Jewell County, Kansas 6.2.1916 — New Brunswick, NJ 18.11.1989. U.S. Scholar of Comparative Religion. Professor in New Brunswick. Son of farmer Halsey Melvin Pangborn (1888–1967) and Sue Naomi Peets. Studied at Kansas Wesleyan (B.A. 1937), Yale Divinity School (B.D. 1940) and Columbia University (M.Ph. 1950). Ph.D.…
PYRARD DE LAVAL, François. Laval c. 1578 — Paris c. 1623. French Traveller in Maldives and India. Son of a trader. In May 1601 he sailed on Corbin one of the two ships equiped by the merchants of St.Malo, Laval and Vitré in order to compete with the Dutch E.I.C. in…
PULLÈ, Francesco Lorenzo Ubaldo Cesare Francesco, conte di San Florian. Modena 17.5.1850 — Ebrusco near Brescia 22.8.1934. Italian Indologist. Professor in Padova, Pisa and Bologna. Son of Carlo Augusto Dionigi Pullè (1819–1898), an officer, and Virginia Ricci, an old noble family of Modena. As youth participated in Italian liberation war…
PUINI, Carlo. Leghorn 29.5.1839 — Florence 4.6.1924. Italian Sinologist and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in Florence. Son of Giuseppe Puini and Maria Antonia Pajer. Studied Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan and Mongolian at Pisa. From 1877 eo. and from 1883 ord. Professor of East Asian history and geography at R. Istituto Superiore di…
PRZYLUSKI, Jean (Jan Przyłuski). Le Mans (Sarthe) 17.8.1885 — Mareil-sur-Loir (Sarthe) or Paris (?) 27.10.1944. French Indologist, South East Asian scholar and Linguist. Professor in Paris. Born in a modest family with Polish origin. Studies at Rennes and Paris (sociology under Hubert and Mauss, Chinese under Chavannes). In 1907-13 at E.F.E.O.…
PRZIKRIL (PŘIKRYL), Karel Ambrož Josef. Prague 7.12.1718 — Hradec Králové 8.1.1785. S.J. Czech Jesuit Scholar in India. He joined the S.J. in 1734, novice in Brno. Studied philosophy and theology in Olomouc, Brno and Prague, taught at Jesuit gymnasiums. He was sent to India in 1748. After a while as…