SNESAREV, Andrej Evgen’evič. Staraja Kalitva, Ostrogožskij uezd (now Rossoš), gub. Voronež 1.(13.)12.1865 — Moscow 4.12.1937. Russian Officer, Geographer and Oriental Scholar. Lieutenant General. Son of Evgenij Petrovič Snesarev (1838–1882), an Orthodox priest, and Ekaterina Ivanovna Kurbatova. In 1884 matriculated from Novočerkassk. Studied mathematics and graduated 1888 from Moscow University, in…
SMYTH, Herbert Weir. Wilmington, DE 8.8.1857 — Bar Harbor, ME 16.7.1937. U.S. Classical (Greek) Scholar also interested in Indology. Son of Clement Biddle Smyth, an iron manufacturer, and Sarah Ann Sellers. Educated at Swarthmore (A.B. 1876) and Harvard (A.B. 1878) Further studies in Germany: 1879-81 Leipzig, 1881-83 Göttingen. Ph.D. 1884…
SMITH, Vincent Arthur. Dublin 3.6.1848 — Oxford 6.2.1920. British (Irish) Indologist, Historian and Art Historian of India, in India (1871–1900) and the U.K. Son of Aquilla Smith (1806–1890), a physician and noted numismatist and archaeologist, and Esther Faucett (d. 1850). Educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A. 1868) and Cambridge (M.A.).…
SMITH, May. 18?? — 19??. Britishwoman interested in Pāli. With meagre data she is doomed to remain mere name, but she could perhaps be, taken Rhys Davids’s interest in psychology and the common connection with Manchester, the same May Smith (1879–1968) who was known as industrial psychologist and is presented…
SMITH, Helmer. Boo, Stockholms län 26.4.1882 — 9.1.1956. Swedish Indologist. Professor in Uppsala. Son of an engineer, Henning Smith (of distant British origin), and Fanny Sehlstedt (d. 1929). Matriculated from Stockholm in 1900. Studies at Uppsala: fil.kand. 1904, fil.lic. 1908. In 1909-20 further studies in Berlin, Paris (Bloch) and especially…
SMITH, George. Leith near Edinburgh 28.4.1833 — Edinburgh 24.12.1919. British (Scottish) Teacher in India, Historian and Geographer. Son of Adam Smith (1809–1837) and Isabella Anderson. Educated at the Royal High School, studies at University of Edinburgh: LL.D. 1868. Professor 1854 and Principal 1855-58 of the Doveton College, Madras. Then worked…
SMITH, Edmund William. 25.3.1858 — 21.11.1901. British Archaelogical Photographer in India. In 1886 joined A.S.I. as Assistant Archaeological Surveyor for North-West Provinces and Oudh. Surveyor 1891, Surveyor and Curator of the Lucknow Museum 1898. Worked as Führer’s Assistant. Died of cholera. Publications: With A.. Führer: The Sharqi-Architecture of Jaunpur; with…
SMIRNOV, Boris Leonidovič. Kozljaniči, Černigov gub. (now Černigiv, Ukraine) 1891 — Ašhabad 2.5.1967. Ukrainian Physician interested in Indology, in Turkmenistan. Professor of Medicine and Member of Turkmenistan Academy of Science in Ašhabad. Son of a physician, Leonid Smirnov and his wife Sofia Mitrofanova (an author of children’s books), gymnasium in…
ŚMIESZEK, Anton. 22.5.1881 — 1943. Polish Oriental Scholar. Ph.D. 1905 Cracow. From 1921 Assistant Professor at Poznań, 1922 eo. and 1925 ord. of Ancient Near East and Sanskrit, but in 1935 the Minister of Education decided to put an end to Oriental Studies at Poznań and his chair was closed.…
ŠMELHAUS, Stanislav. Karlín near Prague 17.11.1887 — 19??. Czechoslovakian Student of Indology. Studied at Charles University in Prague under Zubatý, Ph.D. there 1924/25. Probably he is that St. Šm. (Prague 17.11.1887 – Prague 20.9.1959) whom prijmeni.cz mentions as Professor of Odontology and Orientalist. Publications: Diss. O původu jazyka Malajálam a…