COGNI, Giulio. Siena 10.1.1908 — Siena 15.11.1983. Italian Author and Composer interested in religions, parapsychology and like. Living in Siena. In the 1930s he was a fascist and racial theoretician. He taught psychology and musical aesthetics at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence. Married Emman Schill, one son. Publications: Il…
CŒURDOUX, Gaston-Laurent. Bourges 18.10.1691 (or 18.12.?) — Pondichéry 15.6.1779. S.J. French Missionary Priest and Pioneer of Indology in India. Joined the S.J. in 1715, ordained priest 1725, left for South India in 1732, and served in Madurai Mission in 1732-73, in 1744-51 as the superior of the mission. After the…
COEMANS, Émile Maximilien Marie Joseph. 1856 — Ghent 22.4.1899. Belgian Scholar. At Ghent University, the author of a Manuel de langue égyptienne. 1. Gand 1877 and an Assyriological article in 1887. But no more is known of him (not mentioned as Egyptologist in Dawson & Uphill). Married 1890 Blanche Adèle…
CŒDÈS, George (Georges). Paris 10.8.1886 — Neuilly-sur-Seine 2.10.1969. French South-East Asian Scholar (Historian and Epigraphist). Son of bank director Hippolyte Cœdès (1845–1917) and Marie Carette. The family is sometimes claimed to have Hungarian Jewish origin, but according to Wikipedia his ancestors were already living in Strasbourg before 1740. Educated at…
CODRINGTON, Oliver. Wroughton, Wiltshire 5.5.1837 — Brentford, Middlesex ?.3.1921 (not 1931). British Physician and Numismatist. Son of Rev. Thomas Stretton Codrington (1798–1839, Vicar of Wroughton) and Elizabeth Emily Maurice (WikiTree: Elizabeth Jemima White), uncle of —> H. W. Codrington (1879–1942). Educated at the Royal Free Grammar School in Marlborough and…
CODRINGTON, Kenneth de Burgh. Murree, Punjab 5.6.1899 — Appledore, Devon 1.1.1986. British Archaeologist and Art Historian of India. Son of Lieutenant (then Major-General) Harry de Burgh Codrington (1866–1939) of Indian army and Helen Maud Vaughan (1870–1915), grew up in the North-West Frontier. Educated at Sherborne School and Cadet College, Wellington. Studies…
CODRINGTON, Humphrey William. Hambleden, Buckinghamshire 25.9.1879 — Kensington, London 7.11.1942. British Civil Servant and Scholar of Sri Lankan History and Ethnography. Son of the rear-admiral William Codrington (1832–1888) and Mary Auber Leach (1855–1930), nephew of —> Oliver Codrington (1837–1921). Educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford (B.A.). In 1903…
COCK, Jan Kornelis de. Vierhuizen, Ulrum, Groningen 23.10.1867 (or 1870?) — Davos, Switzerland 6.4.1941. Dutch Indologist. Son of an industrialist, Jan Klaassens de Cock (1840–1909), and Frouke Boon. After gymnasium in Groningen studied Dutch at Amsterdam, soon also Sanskrit under Uhlenbeck. Ph.D. 1899 Amsterdam. As Indology was then not an…
CLOUGH, Benjamin. Bradford, Yorkshire bapt. 27.3.1791 — Southwark, Kent 13.4.1853. British Methodist Missionary and Pāli Scholar in Sri Lanka. Lost his father, the elder Benjamin Clough, a militia officer, when four. Mother Christina Balmfith or Balefith, an innkeeper. Joined the Methodists in the age of 17 and became a lay…
CLOSS, Alois. Neumarkt in Steiermark 27.10.1893 — Graz 10.1.1984. Austrian Iranian Scholar. Librarian in Graz. Son of Alois Closs, a court official, and Rosa Halm, elder brother of the Germanist August Closs (1898–1990). Educated in Graz, 1911-15 studies of theology at Graz (Dr.theol.), ordained priest 1916. In 1916-21 minister in…