THIESSEN, Jakob Heinrich. Hemme/Kr. Norder-Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein 28.7.1854 — 1???. German Student of Indology. Son of a farmer, after primary school in home region attended Gymnasium in Altona in 1871-75. In 1875-80 studied at Kiel modern languages, Germanistics and especially Sanskrit and Pāli under Pischel. Ph.D. 1880 Kiel. His brief dissertation…
THIBAUT, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm (George Frederick Willim Thibaut). Heidelberg 20.3.1848 — Berlin-Lichterfelde 16.10.1914. German Indologist in India. Professor in Calcutta. Son of Carl Thibaut (1807–1881), the librarian of Heidelberg University, and grandson of the famous lawyer Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut (1772–1840). After school in Heidelberg studied at Heidelberg (Holtzmann) and…
THEOTÓKÊS, Kônstantînos (Kostas Theotokis; Κωνσταντῖνος Θεοτόκης). Corfu 13.3. 1872 — Corfu 1.7.1923. Greek Author interested in Sanskrit. Born in an aristocratic family. After school in Corfu studied three years in Paris languages (including Sanskrit), medicine, chemistry, mathematics and philosophy. Then lived in Corfu and became well known as an author…
THEOBALD, William. Marylebone, London 1829 — Ilfracombe, Devon 31.3.1908. British Naturalist in India. Son of the elder William Theobald and Anna Bishop, early years unclear. He arrived at Calcutta in 1847, worked in a coal company and became acquainted with Joseph Hooker. He joined the Geological Survey of India and…
TEZA, Emilio. Venice 14.9.1831 — Padua 28.3./30.4.1912. Italian Indologist. Professor in Pisa and Padua. Studies at Padova, then at Vienna Greek, Slavistics and Hungarian, also Sanskrit under Boller. Back in Italy worked as librarian in Marciana (Venice) and Laurenziana (Florence). In 1860-66 Professore di letterature moderne comparate at Bologna (taught…
TEXTOR DE RAVISI, Anatole Arthur, M. le baron. Bourges 15.6.1822 — Paris 8.1.1902. French Colonial Servant. Son of Étienne Textor, an officer (1790–1826), of an old noble family of Forez, and Anne Marie Guenot. Attended 1840-42 Saint-Cyr military school, then joined marine infantery. Served in Morocco and 1847-52 in Réunion.…
TESSITORI, Luigi Pio. Udine 13.12.1887 — Bikaner 22.11.1919. Italian Indologist in India. Son of Guido T., a worker, and Luigia Rosa Venier Romano. Studied Indology at Florence under Pavolini, graduated 1910 with a diss. on the Rāmcarit Mānas. On recommendation of Grierson he was employed by British Indian government in…
TENNISONS, Kārlis Augusts (Estonian Karl August Tõnisson, Russian Karl Mihailovič Tynisson, Pseudonym Vend Vahindra). Umbusi, Põltsamaa, Estonia 8.(20.)8.1873 (not Laura, Latvian Livonia and not 1883) — Rangoon 9.5.1962. Estonian (not Latvian) Bauddha. Born in a landowning family, lost rather early his parents (father 1891, mother 1895). Studied philosophy at St.Petersburg…
TENNENT, James Emerson (until 1832 James Emerson). Belfast 7.4.1804 — London 6.3.1869. Sir (Bart). British (of Northern Ireland) Lawyer, Administrator and Politician in Sri Lanka. Son of William Emerson (d. 1821), a tobacco merchant in Belfast, and Sarah Arbuthnot. Educated at Belfast Academy, studies at Trinity College, Dublin, no degree.…
TEMPLE, Richard Carnac. Allahabad 15.10.1850 — Territet, Montreaux, Switzerland 3.3.1931. Sir (2nd Bart.). British Colonial Officer in India and Burma, Indologist, Ethnologist and Historian. Son of Sir Richard T. (1826–1902), a well-known and original Civil Servant in India, and Charlotte Martindale (d. 1855). His grandfather was a cousin of ·>…