SCALABRINO BORSANI, Giuseppina (or G. Borsani Scalabrino). Milano 9.5.1910 — 22.2.1991. Italian Indologist. Professor in Milano. Studied Sanskrit at Catholic University of Milano under A. Ballini, graduated in 1933. Soon Assistant, then Docent, and from 1954 the first woman in Italy with a Sanskrit chair, at Catholic University of Milano,…
SAVIDGE, Frederick William (“Sap Upa”). Stretham near Ely, Cambridgeshire 3.5.1862 — London 26/28.9.1936. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in North-East India. Son of Briggs Savidge (1835–1921), a Baptist grocer and draper, and Sarah Clarke. B.A., Ph.D. Worked as schoolteacher in London. Arrived in India in 1891. Together with his friend —>…
SÃO MIGUEL, Gaspar de. 1595? — 1647. Father. Born in Portugal. Franciscan priest and missionary in India. Publications: Manuscript works: Arte da lingoa Canarim (lost?); Dictionarium et ars lingua Canarinae; Vocabulario da Lingua Portugues e Canari. – Sintaxis copiosissima na lingoa Bramana e Pollida: a syntax of standard Konkani. 154…
SANTA RITA E SOUSA, José de. 1865 — 1940. Father Apparently an Indian from Konkan, a Catholic Priest and Canon. Professor of Konkani at Esc. Superior Colonial in Lisbon from 1921 and still in the 1930s. Publications: A Civilisação Indo-Árica. 1919. – Elementos gramaticais da língua concani. 181 p. Lisbon 1929.…
SANTANA RODRIGUES, António Aleixo de. Vernã, Salsete 4.7.1887 — Lisbon ?.9.1966. Portuguese (probably Goanese) Physician and Author. After school in Panaji studied at Escola Médica de Nova Goa, graduated 1910. Futher medical studies in Lisbon, M.D. 1919. Worked as physician and Professor of Medicine in Goa. Made Tagore known in…
SANTA ANNA (Santana), Francisco Xavier de (Francesco Saverio di Sant’ Anna, lay Raffaello Pescetto). Celle Ligure near Savona 25.4.1771 — Bombay 7.12.1844. Father. O.C.D. Italian Carmelite Missionary and Konkani Scholar in India. Joined the order in 1790. Finally 1831 titular Archbishop of Sardes and in 1831-44 Apostolic Vicar in Verapoly…
SANGERMANO, Vincentius (Vincenzo). Arpino, Lazio 22.4.1758 — Arpino (or Leghorn?) 28.7.1819. Father. Italian Barnabite Missionary in Burma, a Scholar of Pāli and Burmese. Became novice in 1774. Sent to Burma in 1782. After brief stay in Ava worked long time in Rangoon as Principal of a missionary school. He knew…
SANDFORD, Walter. 1848 — 1???. British Civil Servant or Officer (?) in India. Son of John Sandford. In Secunderabad (1880), soon in London (1885). Publications: “Account of Excavations made near Manikyala, in the Panjab”, IA 9, 1880, 153-158. Sources: Briefly mentioned in a Sandford genealogy found in www.myheritageimages.com.
SANDERSON, Daniel. Cockermouth, Cumberland 9.2.1819 — 1902. Rev. British Wesleyan Missionary in India. Son of Anglican parents, himself Methodist missionary in Mysore State (Bangalore, Mysore, Tumkur, Gubbi) in 1842-67 (1843-44 in South Africa). Back in the U.K. Director of Richmond Theological College in London. Married Martha Perress (d. 1849), two…
SANDBERG, Samuel Louis Graham. Oughtibridge, Yorkshire 9.12.1851 — Bournemouth 2.3.1905. Rev. British Priest and Tibetan Scholar. Son of Rev. Paul Louis Sandberg (1819–1878), a vicar and former (1843-49) missionary in India, with Swedish ancestry, and Maria Graham. Educated in Liverpool and Birkenhead. B.A. 1870 Dublin University, then studied law at Inner…