WALDE, Alois. Innsbruck 30.11.1869 — Innsbruck (N.D.B., but Wikipedia & Prabook say Königsberg) 3.10.1924. Austrian IE and Classical Scholar. Son of merchant Ludwig Walde (1830–1917) and Anna Filz (d. 1923), educated in Innsbruck. In 1888-92 studies of Classics and IE at Innsbruck, 1893-94 at Leipzig (Brugmann & Leskien), Ph.D. Innsbruck 1894…
WAGNER, Reinhard. 1??? — 194?. German Specialist of Bengali. Ph.D. Schoolteacher (Studienrat). As part-time Docent taught Bengali at Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin in 1929–44/45. Apparently a Nazi. Died as American war prisoner. Publications: A Bengali grammar in German. – Translated: Bengalische Erzähler. Der Sieg der Seele. 287 p.…
WAGENER, Auguste. Roermund (Netherlands) 8.6.1829 — Ghent 14.5.1896. Belgian Classical Philologist. Professor in Ghent. Born in the Netherlands, son of Jan-Baptist Wagener (d. 1862), a teacher of Luxemburgian origin, and Catherine Reuter, educated in Roermund. In 1845-49 studied at Bonn Classics (Ritschl) and Sanskrit (Lassen). Ph.D. 1849 Bonn. A second…
WÄLIKANGAS, Eino (until 1906 Buddén). Savonlinna 11.10.1889 — Helsinki 4.3.1960. Finnish Diplomat, former Student of Indology . Son of Emil Johannes Buddén (1855–1931), a teacher, and Johanna Augusta Granit (1860–1952). Matriculated 1907 from Savonlinna school. Studies at Helsinki. Wrote his M.A. thesis in German philology in 1914, but planned a…
WADDELL, Laurence Austine. Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire 29.5.1854 — 20.9.1938. British (Scottish) Physician and Tibetan Scholar in India. Son of Rev. Thomas Clement Waddell (1813–1880), a teacher and author, and Jean Chapman. Studied medicine and chemistry at Glasgow University, graduated in 1878 and worked two years as surgeon in Gasgow. In 1879…
WACKERNAGEL, Jacob (Jakob). Basel 11.12.1853 — Basel 22.5.1938. Swiss IE Linguist, Greek and Sanskrit Scholar. Professor in Göttingen and Basel. Son of Wilhelm Wackernagel (1806–1868), a Germanist and poet of German origin, and Maria Salome Sarasin (1816–1894), brother of the Germanist Rudolf Wackernagel (1855–1928). Godson of Jacob Grimm. School at…
WAALS, Henrik Gerardus van der. Leiden 29.11.18?? — Laren, North Holland 1.8.1931. Dutch Schoolteacher interested in Indology, Translator of Indian classics into Dutch. Son of carpenter Jacobus van der Waals (1812–1898) and Elisabeth van den Burg (1816–1896), a working class family. Schoolteacher of French in Amsterdam. Publications: Translated: Pañcatantra, arische…