FRYE, John Percival. London 1807 — Berhampore, West Bengal 16.4.1856. British Colonial Officer in India. Served in Madras Infantry. Lieutenant 1839. From 1844 as Lieutenant Assistant to the Agent in Ganjam, from 1849 Assistant to the Agent, then in 1858 (?) as Lieutenant in charge of the Agency in the…
FROHNMEYER, Leonhard (or rather Ludwig?) Johannes. Ludwigsburg (Württemberg) 12.12.1850 — Basel 16.3.1921. Rev. German Missionary and Malayalam scholar. Son of Johann Gottlieb Frohnmeyer (1813–1880) and Luise Henrieke Reuther. After teacher training in Nürtingen worked as teacher in Calw. Became missionary and worked for the Basel Mission in Kerala from 1876 until…
FRITZSCHE, Adolf Richard. Leipzig 6.11.1851 — 19??. German Teacher and Indologist. Schoolteacher and Principal in Schneeberg. Son of Johann Gottfried Fritzsche and Agneta Reiz. After gymnasium in Leipzig studies of classics at Leipzig (Ritschl, Curtius), also Indology under Brockhaus. Ph.D. 1873 Leipzig. Teacher at Gymnasium of Chemnitz 1876-88, then principal…
FRITZE, Ludwig. Stendhal (Sachsen-Anhalt) 9.12.(?)1833 — Köpenick (Berlin) 11.9.1922. German Schoolteacher and Translator of Sanskrit Literature. Son of a clothier. Never studied at a university, instead at Lehrerseminar in Oranienberg, then taught at elementary schools. Teacher at teacher training colleges in Oranienberg 1861-71, in 1871-73 in Zabern (Saverne in Alsace), 1873-85…
FRIEDLÄNDER, Walter Ferdinand. Glogau, Niederschlesien (now Głogów in Poland) 10.3.1873 — New York 8.9. 1966. German Student of Indology, then Art Historian, later in the U.S.A. Son of Sigismund Friedländer and Anna Joachimsthal, lost early his parents and grew up at his sister in Berlin. Studied Indology at Berlin, among…
FREUDENBERG, Johann Philipp. Raubacher Hütte bet Dierdorf, Kr. Neuwied 18.2.1843 — Colombo 2.2.1911. German Merchant in Sri Lanka. Son of the elder J. Ph. Freudenberg, an industrialist, and Caroline Bernhardt. Entered business and served in a coffee firm in Cologne, Rotterdam, Marseille and London. In 1873 went to Colombo and…
FRERE, Henry Bartle Edward. Clydach, Brecknockshire 29.3.1815 — London 29.5.1884. Sir, Bart. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Edward Frere (1770–1844), manager of ironworks, and Mary Ann Green, educated at Bath grammar school and Haileybury. Went to India in 1834 by the overland route (in fact, mostly by ship)…
FREJMAN, Aleksandr Arnol’dovič. Warsaw 10.(22.)8.1879 — Leningrad 19.1.1968. Russian Iranist, specialist of Middle Iranian. Professor in Leningrad. Son of an official. After gymnasium in Warsaw in 1889-99, studies of Indo-Iranian and Armenian at Oriental Faculty (under Salemann, Žukovskij, Ol’denburg, Ščerbackoj and Marr) and of linguistics (under Bulič and Baudouin de…
FRAZER, Robert Watson. Dublin ?.5.1854 — 30.11.1921. Irish Indologist and Dravidian Scholar in British Civil Service in India. Lecturer in London. Son of Dr. William Frazer, a physician. Educated at Rathmines School and Trinity College in Dublin (under Atkinson). LL.B. In 1877-86 served in India, Madras Civil Service. In 1886…
FRASER, James Nelson. 1869 — Bombay 12.3.1918. British Civil Servant in India. In Educational Department, Principal of the Training College in Bombay for Teachers in Secondary Schools. Died after a few days’ illness. Publications: Deccan College: A Retrospect 1851–1901. 160 p. Poona 1902. – Transl. with K. B. Marathe: The…