GOLDSCHMIDT, Siegfried Samson. Kassel 29.10.1844 — Strassburg 31.1.1884. German Indologist. Professor in Strassburg. Born in a Jewish family, son of Philipp Samson Goldschmidt (1807–1846), a banker, and Minna Hertz (1817–1886), perhaps related (but not closely) to —> Paul Goldschmidt. After gymnasium in Kassel, studies at Leipzig, Berlin (Weber) and Tübingen…
GOLDSCHMIDT, Paul. Danzig 19.12.1850 — Galle 7.5.1877. German Indologist in Sri Lanka. Findagrave calls him Philip Paul Goldschmidt, but no other source confirms this. Son of a Geheimer Kommerzienrat, perhaps somehow (but not closely) related to —> Siegfried Goldschmidt.1 He matriculated from Danzig 1867. Studies of Indology in 1867-72 (interrupted…
GOLDINGHAM, John (born Johannes Guldenheim). London 1767 — Worcester ?.7.1849. British Mathematician and Astronomer in India, also an Architect and Surveyor. Son of Benjamin Guldenheim, of Denmark, and Elizabeth Williams. From 1788 assistant to sailor-astronomer Michael Topping (1747–1796) and thus came to Madras. Succeeded Topping as the astronomer of Madras…
GOGERLY, Daniel John. London 25.8.1792 — buried Colombo 6.9.1862. British Methodist Missionary in Ceylon. Son of Daniel Gogerly (1762–1838) and Elizabeth Forster. Worked as a printer, but soon (1806) joined the Wesleyan Mission. Arrived at Jaffna in October 1818 taking the supervision of Methodist Mission press. Ordained priest 1823, in…
GÖSSEL, Heinrich. Leipzig 11.1.1887 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Studied under Windisch in Leipzig before the WW I, Ph.D. (1914 called dr.), then Assistant there. Habilitation 1917 Leipzig, but apparently he could not begin as PD. Also interested in Old Iranian and IE. Probably he is Heinrich Eberhard Gössel…
GODWIN-AUSTEN, Henry Haversham (until 1854 H. H. Austen). Teignmouth, Devon 6.7.1834 — Godalming, Surrey 2.12.1923. British Colonial Officer and Scientist in India. Son of Robert A. C. Austen (later Godwin-Austen, 1808–1884), a geologist, and Maria Godwin. After school at Guildford he went in 1848 to Sandhurst. Entered the army in…
GODARD, André. Chaumont (Haute-Marne) 21.1.1881 — Paris 31.7./2.8.1965. French Architect and Archaeologist of the Near East, Afghanistan and Iran. Studies of architecture and archaeology at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After graduating as an architect he went to the East in 1910. Directed two years building works in Baghdad, also…
GOBLET D’ALVIELLA, Eugène Félicien Albert, comte. Ixelles (Brussels) 10.8.1846 — Ibid. 9.9.1925. Belgian Scholar of Comparative Religion with special interest in India and Egypt, also a Lawyer and Liberal Politician. Professor in Brussels. Son of Count Louis Goblet d’A. (1823–1863), member of the Belgian House of Representatives, and Coralie d’Auxy…
GOBINEAU, Joseph Arthur, “comte” de. Ville d’Avray near Paris 14.7.1816 — Turin 13.10.1882. French Diplomat, Iranian Scholar and Theoretician of Pseudo-Scientific Racism. Son of Louis de Gobineau (1784–1858), a government official and eager royalist, who is said to have adopted the title of a count without right, and Magdeleine de…
GLEYE, Arthur Wilhelm. Riga 21.10.1867 — Riga 5.2.1937. German (Livonian) IE Linguist. Son of Karl Eduard Gleye, a merchant, and Louise Henningson, a middle class family, studied in 1888-91 comparative philology at Dorpat (Tartu). Ph.D. 1893 Dorpat. Student of L. Meyer. In 1901-21 Lecturer of German at Tomsk University in…