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SANCTO BARTHOLOMAEO

SANCTO BARTHOLOMAEO, Paulinus a —> PAULINUS A SANCTO BARTHOLOMAEO.

SAMUELLS, William Leycester. Patna 14.7.1841 — 1899. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of —> E. A. Samuells (1814–1860). From 1857 served in Bengal. As captain, in 1868-72 in Chota Nagpur and Rewa. Then in Barrackpur and Hill Tippera. Retired as colonel in 1890. Publications: Letters on the Rock and Temples…

SAMUELLS, Edward Alexander.

SAMUELLS, Edward Alexander. Bapt. Westmoreland, Jamaica 28.12.1814 — Surrey 23.12.1860. British Civil Servant in India. Son of physician Paul Stevens Samuells (1775–1850) and Isabella Walker. Member of Bengal Civil Service until his early death. Magistrate in Tirhut, finally Commissioner of Patna. Married 1840 Anna Charlotte Pringle (1822–1893), father of —>…

SAMPSON, John

SAMPSON, John (“Romano Rai”). Schull, County Cork 25.2.1862 — West Kirkby, Cheshire 9.11.1931. British (Irish) Librarian and Gipsy Scholar. Son of James Sampson (1813–1871?), a chemist and mining engineer from Cornwall, and Sarah Anne MacDermott. His father lost all his money in a bank failure 1871 and the family moved…

SALVIONI, Carlo

SALVIONI, Carlo. Bellinzona 3.3.1858— Milano 20.10.1920. Swiss Linguist in Italy. Professor in Milano. Son of Carlo Salvioni, a printer and book-dealer, and Martina Borsa. Educated in Lugano (knew there M. Bakunin). Studies at Basel, soon changed medicine into linguistics and in 1878 went to Leipzig. Ph.D. 1883 there under Brugmann.…

SAGI, Alexander

SAGI, Alexander. Kispet (now Budapest XIX) 16.5.1929 — Grenzach, dt. Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg 22.7.1993. Hungarian Catholic Priest and Psychologist in Austria and Germany. Son of Stefan Sagi, a mechanician, and Valerie Frank, grew up in deeply religious home. After gymnasium in Budapest, in 1947-52 studied theology at Vienna. Theol.Dr. (Cath.) 1953…

SAFAREWICZ, Jan

SAFAREWICZ, Jan. Dyneburg (Daugavpils in Latvia) 8.2.1904 — Cracow 9.4.1992. Polish IE Linguist. Professor at Krakow. Son of tax official, lost early his parents, tax official Romuald Safarewicz and Wanda Golińska, and grew up with his uncle, Alexander Safarewicz (1876–1936), bacteriologist and Professor of Medicine at Wilno (Vilnius), studied there…

SCHRÖTER, Erich

SCHRÖTER, Julius Erich. 1868 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1900 Leipzig. Apparently active in 1909, possibly as librarian in Leipzig. U. Wokoeck, German Orientalism. has librarian E.S. living in 1868–1965, but the librarian E.S. who died 1965 was born in 1894 (https://www.o-bib.de/article/view/2015H2S1-32/2445). He came from Leipzig, true, and…

SCHRADER, Friedrich

SCHRADER, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich. Wolmirstedt, Prussia (now Sachsen-Anhalt) 19.11.1865 — Berlin 28.8.1922. German Oriental Scholar, Art Historian and Journalist. Educated in Magdeburg, studies at Halle (also art history). Ph.D. 1889 Halle under Pischel. In 1889-91 librarian of D.M.G. In 1891 moved to Constantinople and worked there as college teacher of…

SCHOTSMAN-WOLFERS, Janine

SCHOTSMAN-WOLFERS, Janine. Brussels 1924 — 17.3.1991. Belgian Art Historian. Daughter of Marcel Wolfers and Claire Petrucci da Siena. She was the Head of India and S.E. Asia department of Royal Museums of Art History in Brussels. Married with Jean-Pierre Schotsman (1922–2007). Publications: A few articles about Indian art and specimens…

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