GERARD, James Gilbert. Aberdeen 1795 — Sabathu (Himachal Pradesh) 31.3.1835. British (Scottish) Military Physician and Explorer in India. Son of Gilbert Gerard (1760–1815), D.D., and Helen Duncan (1765–1838), brother of —> Alexander Gerard (1792–1839) and —> Patrick Gerard (1794–1848). Entered Bengal Medical Service in 1814 as assistant surgeon, 1826 surgeon,…
GERARD, Alexander. Aberdeen 17.2.1792 — Aberdeen 15.12.1839. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer and Explorer in India. Son of Gilbert Gerard (1760–1815), D.D., and Helen Duncan (1765–1838), brother of —> James G. Gerard (1795–1835) and —> Patrick Gerard (1794–1848). Graduated from King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1808 and joined the Bengal Native Infantry…
GEORGIAN, Constantin D. Bucharest 2.1.1850 — 26.11.1904. Romanian Indologist, the First Schooled Oriental Scholar of his Country. Son of a shopkeeper, matriculated in Bucharest in 1869. Graduated at Bucharest University in 1872 with a dissertation on Sallustius and obtained a scholarship. In 1872-75 studied in Paris classical and Romance philology…
GELPKE, Fritz Ludwig. Northeim, Hannover 29.12.1896 — 1945. German Indologist. Son of physician Joh. Gelpke and Ottilie Doecks. Gymnasium in Northeim. Participated in WW I and never really recovered. Studies of Indology, Persian and ancient history at Göttingen (Wackernagel, Oldenberg, et al.) and Rostock. After a long interval because of…
GELDNER, Karl Friedrich Eugen. Saalfeld (Sachsen-Meiningen) 17.12.1852 — Marburg/Lahn 5.2.1929. German Indologist and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Marburg. Son of Christian Friedrich Geldner (1821–1890), a minister (archdeacon), and Emma Müller (1822–1876). After school in Hildeburghausen studied from 1871 at Leipzig Indology (under Brockhaus and Windisch) and classical philology, from 1872…
GELABERT Y GORDIOLA, Juan. Palma de Mallorca (or Sóller) 1843 — Madrid 1894. Spanish Linguist and Philologist. Studies at Madrid (i.al. Sanskrit under Garcia Ayuso), Ph.D. 1868. In 1867-70 schoolteacher, also taught Greek and Hebrew at Madrid University. In 1883-94 he was the Professor of Sanskrit at Madrid. His Manual…
GEISLER, Carl. Eschwege, Kurhessen 18?? — 1???. German Student of IE Linguistics. Ph.D. 1873 Vienna. Publications: Diss. Eine Untersuchung über ‘Sein und Nichtsein’ in den indogermanischen Sprachen. Probably a manuscript, Vienna 1893. Sources: scopeq.cc.univie.ac.at.
GEIGER, Wilhelm Ludwig. Nürnberg 21.7.1856 — Neubiberg near Munich 2.9. 1943. German Iranian Scholar and Indologist. Professor in Erlangen and Munich. Husband of —> Magdalene Geiger. Son of Johannes Leonhard Geiger (1820–1894), a Lutheran minister, and Emma Paur (1832–1918). Studied classical philology and Oriental languages at Berlin, Bonn and Erlangen…
GEIGER, Magdalene (née Grobe). Calbe (an der Saale) 19.6.1877 — 25.1.1960. German Indologist. Wife of —> Wilhelm Geiger (1856–1943). Daughter of a flax mill owner, according to custom of the time was sent to a girls’ school in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. In school and at home she learnt…
GEIGER, Bernhard. Bielitz-Biala in Austrian Silesia (now Polish Bielsko) 30.4.1881 — New York 5.7.1964. Austrian Indo-Iranian Scholar, later in the U.S.A. Professor in Vienna and New York. Son of Chiel Geiger, a Jewish tailor who moved in 1902 to the U.S.A. School and gymnasium in Biala. Studies of Semitics, Iranian…