ISENBERG, Karl Wilhelm (Charles William). Barmen, Bergisches Land 5.9.1806 — Kornthal near Stuttgart 10.10.1864. German Missionary and Polyglot. Of humble origin, son of a tinsmith, W. Isenberg (d. 1827), and Luise Stahl, a deeply religious home. He went to Basel Mission School in 1824, then two years studies in Berlin and…
IRVINE, William. Aberdeen 5.7.1840 — Castelnau, Barnes, near London 3.11.1911. British (Scottish) Civil Servant and Historian in India. Specialist of the Muhammedan period. Son of William Irvine, an advocate, and Margaret Garden. Lost early his father and moved to London with his mother, educated privately and at King’s College. In…
IPPEL, Wilhelm August Walther Albert. Berlin 2.7.1885 — Munich 1960. German Classical Archaeologist. Son of Eduard Paul Ippel and Martha Begemann. Studies at Freiburg, Berlin and Bonn. Ph.D. 1910 Bonn. In 1923-40 school-teacher in Breslau and Berlin. From 1940 Hon. Professor of archaeology at Berlin and from 1947 at Hamburg.…
IORDĂNESCU, Teodor. Alexandria 12./25.2.1872 — 1954. Romanian Scholar interested in Indology. Studied at Bucharest (diplome 1897) and in 1901-03 i.al. Indology at Halle (under Pischel, R. Schmidt and Hultzsch). High school professor of Latin (1910). Younger friend of —> C. Georgian. In 1928 attended the Orientalist Conference in Oxford. Publications:…
INOSTRANCEV, Konstantin Aleksandrovič. St.Petersburg 5(17).4.1876 — Leningrad end of December 1941. Russian Historian of Iran. Born in a noble family. Student of V. von Rosen. Graduated from St.Petersburg Oriental Faculty in 1899. Dr. istorii Vostoka 1908. Conservator of Ethnographic section of Russian Museum from 1902, from 1921 taught at Petrograd/Leningrad…
IMPEY, Elijah George Halhed. Cawnpore (Kanpur) 21.9.1818 — Southampton 19.11.1868. British Physician in India. Son of Elijah Impey (1781–1821, from Ireland, not the famous judge in India Sir Elijah Impey [1732–1809], but probably related) and Marian Bunn. Dr.med. From 1840 in Bombay Medical Service. Surgeon-Major of Bombay Horse Artillery, in…
(IMBAULT-)HUART, Marie Clément. Paris 15.2.1854 — Paris 30.12.1926. French Oriental Scholar. Son of an advocate. Started Arabic in the age of 14, then studied at É.P.H.É. and É.L.O.V. After a period (1875-78) as interpreter student in French consulate in Damascus he served nearly 20 years in Constantinople, in the end…
ILSE(-MUNK), Rose Gertrud Emma. Berlin 5,3,1876 — Auschwitz (Oświęcim) ?.3.1943. German Translator. Daughter of Hermann Munk (1839–1912), Professor of Physiology, and Olga Jaffé. Ph.D. Married Friedrich Gustav Constantin Ilse (1862–1950), two sons and two daughters. As a Jew she became holocaust victim. Publications: With H. Goetz: Gedichte aus der indische…
IHLEFELD, Konrad Adolph Anton. Rühn (or Wismar?), Mecklenburg 21.2.1837 — Muchow near Rostock 18.11.1906. Rev. German Lutheran Missionary in South India. Son of Eduard Ihlefeld (1805–1854), an official, and Johanna Caroline Schander (1810–1849). From 1858 studied theology at Rostock. He was minister in Eldena, near Ludwigslust, but after loosing his…
IEVERS, Robert Wilson. Limerick 1850 (or 1851) — Ireland 10.2.1905. British (Irish) Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Robert John Ievers (1804–1873), a wine merchant, and Elizabeth Browne. Educated at Queen’s University, Belfast (M.A.). Entered Ceylon Civil Service in 1872, worked in various positions mainly in the north-west, living…