QUATREMÈRE, Étienne-Marc. Paris 12.7.1782 — Paris 18.9.1857. French Oriental (Arabic and Persian) Scholar and Historian. Professor in Paris. Born in a Jansenist family, son of Marc-Étienne Quatremère de Roissy (1751–1794) and Suzanne Sophie Lesueur-Florent (1756–1828). Lost in revolution his father who was cloth merchant and member of minor nobility and…
QUACKENBOS, George Payn. New York 24.4.1879 — Tuckahoe, Westchester, NY 15.11.1947. U.S. Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Son of John Duncan Quackenbos (1848–1926), a Professor of English Literature at Columbia University, and Laura Amelia Pinckney (1852–1909). Studies at Columbia University, New York (A.B. 1902, A.M.). In 1910 Instructor in Latin at…
PULLÈ, Francesco Lorenzo Ubaldo Cesare Francesco, conte di San Florian. Modena 17.5.1850 — Ebrusco near Brescia 22.8.1934. Italian Indologist. Professor in Padova, Pisa and Bologna. Son of Carlo Augusto Dionigi Pullè (1819–1898), an officer, and Virginia Ricci, an old noble family of Modena. As youth participated in Italian liberation war…
PUINI, Carlo. Leghorn 29.5.1839 — Florence 4.6.1924. Italian Sinologist and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in Florence. Son of Giuseppe Puini and Maria Antonia Pajer. Studied Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan and Mongolian at Pisa. From 1877 eo. and from 1883 ord. Professor of East Asian history and geography at R. Istituto Superiore di…
PRZYLUSKI, Jean (Jan Przyłuski). Le Mans (Sarthe) 17.8.1885 — Mareil-sur-Loir (Sarthe) or Paris (?) 27.10.1944. French Indologist, South East Asian scholar and Linguist. Professor in Paris. Born in a modest family with Polish origin. Studies at Rennes and Paris (sociology under Hubert and Mauss, Chinese under Chavannes). In 1907-13 at E.F.E.O.…
PROCHÁZKA, Václav. 18?? — 19??. Czechoslovakian Theosophist. Publications: Translated from Hartmann’s German version: Bhagavad-Gita čili vznešena piseň o nesmrtelnosti. 100 p. Prague 1900. Sources: Beside Gītā Google only knows the footballer V.Pr.
PRINTZ, Wilhelm Georg-Friedrich Jakob. Karlsruhe 9.8.1887 — Halle 23.2.1941. German Indologist. Librarian in Halle. Son of merchant Wilhelm Printz (d. 1931) and Margarete Jung. After school in Karlsruhe and Mannheim started 1905 study of modern languages at Leipzig, but soon moved to Indology (Windisch). In 1907 continued under Kielhorn at…
PRINSEP, James. London 20/29.8.1799 — London 22.4.1840. British Civil Servant, Numismatist and Epigraphist in India. Son of John Prinsep (1746–1830), an industrialist and politician who had been in India as soldier in 1771-88, and Sophia Elizabeth Auriol (1760–1850), brother of —> Henry Thoby Prinsep (1792–1878). He studied chemistry and was…
PRINSEP, Henry Thoby. Thoby Priory, Essex 15.7.1792 (or 1793) — Freshwater, Ile of Wight 11.2.1878. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Prinsep (1746–1830), soldier returned from India and turned into industrialist and politician, and Sophia Elizabeth Auriol (1760–1850), brother of —> James Prinsep (1799–1840). Educated privately and at…
PRINGLE, Arthur Torrens. 1852? — Madras ?.1.1904, when 51. British Civil Servant in India. “Assistant Secretary to the Madras Government, and a writer of note, whose labors and research have earned the gratitude of many better known workers.” At the time of his untimely death he was editing John Fryer’s…