EELSINGH, Herman Frederik. Tienhoven, Zuid-Holland 17.11.1882 — Utrecht 1909 or Groningen 29.9.1908. Dutch Indologist. Son of Jan Harmannus Haverbult Eelsingh (b. 1854) and Elisabeth Edzes (1859–1915). Student of Caland at Utrecht, Ph.D. there 1908. Died young. Publications: Diss. Ṣaḍviṁśabrāhmaṇaṁ Vijñāpanabhāṣyasahitam. Het Ṣaḍviṁśabrāhmaṇa van de Sāmaveda uitgegeven met een inleiding, de…
EDWARDS, James Fairbrother. Bolton, Lancastershire 25.3.1875 — Auburndale, Polk County, Florida 5.12.1951. Rev. British Missionary and Indologist, especially a Marathi Scholar. Son of Isaac Edwards and Sarah Brown. Educated at Wesleyan Methodist Theological College in Handsworth, Birmingham, then 8 years in charge of churches in England. Arrived in India in…
EDWARDES, Stephen Meredyth. 19.1.1873 — Felden, Hertfordshire 1.1.1927. British Civil Servant and Historian in India, from 1923 one of the editors of the Indian Antiquary. Son of the Rev. Stephen Edwardes (d. 1886) and Ellen Edwardes. Educated at Eton 1885-88, studies at Christ Church, Oxford. Passed the I.C.S. examination in…
EDMAN, Lars. Kalf (Älfsborg län) 22.11.1824 — 27.5.1921. Swedish Oriental Scholar and Linguist (Germanic), also interested in Sanskrit. Son of Andreas, a farmer, educated in Gothenburg. From 1847 studies at Uppsala, fil.kand. (Ph.D.) 1857. From 1857 Docent (PD) i österländska språken (Oriental languages) at Uppsala, from 1863 adjunkt (Associate Professor)…
EDGREN, August Hjalmar. Östanås bruk, Älvsbacka, Värmland 18.10.1840 — Djursholm, near Stockholm 9.12.1903. Swedish Indologist and Linguist, partly in the U.S.A. Professor in Lincoln. Son of Axel Edgren (1813–1864), an estate owner from the middle of Sweden, and Mathilda Berger (1817–1878). School 1849-51 in Karlstad and 1854-57 in Stockholm, where…
EDGERTON, Franklin. Lemars, Iowa 24.7.1885 — Laramie, Wyoming 7.12.1963. U.S. Indologist. Professor in New Haven. Son of a civil servant, Charles Eugene Edgerton (1861–1932), and Annie Benedict White, his younger brothers were the lawyer Henry White Edgerton (1888–1970) and the Egyptologist William Franklin Edgerton (1893–1970). Though born in the West,…
EDGERTON, Eleanor Hill (née Eleanor Anna Hill). Scranton, PA 23.11.1905 — Brick Township, NJ 21.5.1995. Second wife (from 1952) of —> Franklin Edgerton (1885–1963). Earlier worked as secretary of L. Bloomfield at Yale. Collaborated with his husband in the Meghadūta translation. Survived her husband. Publications: Translated with Franklin Edgerton: Kalidasa, The…
EDGAR, James Huston. Harr, Victoria 19.7.1872 — Tatsienlu 23.3.1936. Rev. New Zealandian (born in Australia) Missionary in China, wrote studies on Chinese and Tibetan Ethnology and Archaeology. Son of Adam Edgar (1850–1942, born in Scotland) and Margaret Huston, grew up in the mountains of Central Otago, New Zealand. Trained as…
EDELBERG, Johan Lorentz Lennart Fraas. Copenhagen 19.5.1915 — Ribe near Esbjerg 11.11.1981. Danish Biologist and Ethnologist, Specialist of Nuristan (Afghanistan). Son of chief engineer (overingeniør) Johannes Ferdinand Edelberg (1870–1949) and Johanne Fraas (1877–1951), grew up in Copenhagen. From 1933 studied briefly theology, but then made cand.mag 1943 in natural history…
ECKSTEIN, Ferdinand d’. Copenhagen 1.9.1790 — Paris 22. or 25.11.1862 (when 71). Baron. French Historian, of Danish/German Origin. Details of his origin are unclear, the title of nobility probably doubtful. “Je ne desire pas me faire l’écho de rumeurs piquantes sur son origine et sa jeunesse” (Mohl). He is said…