GINNEKEN, Jacques (Jacobus Johannes Antonius) van. Oudenbosch (North Brabant) 21.4.1877 — Nijmegen 20.10.1945. S.J. Dutch Linguist and Catholic Apologist. Professor in Nijmegen. Son of Pieter Josephus Hijronimus van Ginneken, a brewer, and Cornelia Jacoba van Aken. Educated at Katwijk and at klein-seminar in Cuzenborg. After father’s death joined the S.J.…
GILL, Robert. Hackney, London 26.9.1804 — on route from Ajanta to Bhusawal 10.4.1879. British Colonial Officer (Major), Artist and Antiquarian in India. Son of a stockbroker, John Gill and his wife Ann. Entered the Indian Army in 1824, served in Madras, retired 1852. Appointed by his superiors to this work…
GIL’FERDING, Aleksandr Fedorovič (Alexander Hilferding). Warsaw 2.7.1831 — Kargopol, Arhangelsk oblast 20.7.1872. Russian Historian, Slavic Linguist and Folklorist interested in Sanskrit, a Slavophil. Public servant. Son of Fëdor Ivanovič Gil’ferding (d. 1864), a civil servant, and Amalija Jakovlevna Vitte (d. 1841), ancestors came from Germany in the early 18th century.…
GILES, Peter Brown. Strichen, Buchan dt., Aberdeenshire 20.10.1860 — Cambridge 17.9.1935. British (Scottish) Linguist and Classical Philologist. Reader in Cambridge. Son of Peter Giles, a factor, and Margret Eddie Brown. Educated at King’s College, from 1878 studies at Aberdeen University, after graduation from 1882 at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.…
GILES, Herbert Allen. Oxford 8.12.1845 — Cambridge 13.2.1935. British Sinologist. Professor in Cambridge. Son of Rev. John Allen Giles (1808–1884), an editor and translator, and Anna Sarah Dickinson. Educated at Charterhouse. In 1867 joined consular service and went to Peking, served as vice-consul and consul in various parts of China.…
GILDEMEISTER, Johannes Gustav. Klein-Piemen (now Kröpelin), Mecklenburg 20.7.1812 — Bonn 11.3.1890. German Indologist and Orientalist. Professor in Marburg and Bonn. Born in Mecklenburg countryside in a Bremenian patrician family, son of Johann Gildemeister (1784–1844), a merchant and journalist, and Maria Anne Catharine Wienholt (1786–1856). Gymnasium in Bremen, learned there Hebrew…
GILCHRIST, John Borthwick (born John Hay G.). Edinburgh 19.6.1759 — Paris 9.1.1841. British (Scottish) Indologist, a Pioneer of Hindi-Urdu Studies. Son of merchant Walter Gilchrist and Henrietta Farquharson (1730–1830), lost his father at the age of one. After school in Edinburgh studies of medicine at George Heriot’s Hospital, Edinburgh. Joined…
GIBBS, James. Walbrook, Middlesex 1825 — Bombay (?) 30.10.1886. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Right Hon. Michael Gibbs (Lord Mayor of London 1845, d. 1858). Educated at Merchant Taylor’s and Haileybury, 1844-46. In 1846 joined the Bombay Civil Service. “Judicial Assistant to the Commissioner in Sind; Special Commissioner…
GIACOMINO, Claudio. Turin 17.6.1848 — 1923. Italian Teacher and Linguist. Ph.D. Professor ord. of “lettere latine e greche” at R. Liceo M. d’Azeglio in Turin. Earlier probably at R. Liceo Chiabrera in Savona. Publications: “Saggiuoli neoindiani”, Miscellanea Ascoli. Milano 1907, 129-143; review of Osthoff & Brugmann, Morphol. Untersuchungen, RFIC 7,…
GHICA, Elena (nom-de-plume Dora D’Istria), princess (in marriage Duchess Koltsova-Massalskaja). Bucharest 3.2.1828 — Florence 17.11.1888. Romanian Author, Historian and Pioneer of Feminism. Born in the princely family of Wallachia – she was niece to the reigning prince Grigore IV and Alexandra Ghica – as daughter of Mihai Ghica (1794–1850), an…