DONATI, Girolamo. Perugia 3.3.1857 — Perugia 4.12.1901. Italian Indologist. Student of De Gubernatis at Florence. For a while in Perugia (1885). Then libero docente di sanscrito at R. Istituto di Studi superiori di Firenze, from 1890 in charge of Sanskrit teaching when De Gubernatis moved to Rome. Also conservator of…
DODWELL, Henry Herbert. Great Haseley, Oxfordshire 3.5.1879 — Chertsey, Surrey 13.6.1946 (or 30.10.). British Historian. Son of Herbert Dodwell (1846–1923) and Violet Sinclair Watson (1850–1890). Educated at Thame Grammar School, studies at St.John’s (Oxford), graduated 1908 and joined Indian Educational Service, retired 1922. In 1922-46 Professor of History and Culture…
DILLON, Emile Joseph [in French also used Émile de Dillon]. Dublin 21.3.1854 (or 1855) — Barcelona 9.6.1933. British (Irish) Linguist and Journalist. Son of Irish father, Michael Dillon, and English mother, Mary Byrne. Originally trained for priesthood, studied at Clonliffe College in Dublin, Pantasaph monastery in Wales, Seminary of St.Sulpice,…
DILLMANN, Christian Friedrich August. Illingen bei Maulbronn 25.4.1823 — Berlin 4.7.1894. German Semitic Scholar, famous Pioneer of Ethiopian Studies. Professor in Berlin. Son of Elias Dillmann (1794–1877), a school principal, and Christiana Louisa Wiemeg (1790–1835). Studied theology and philology at Tübingen, mainly under Ewald, but also Roth and Schleicher. Ph.D.…
DIEZ, Ernst. Lölling, Kärnten 27.7.1878 — Vienna 8.7.1961. Austrian Art Historian. Cousin and friend of composer Anton Webern. Studies at Graz and Vienna under Strzygowski. Ph.D. 1903 with diss. on late classic / early Christian art. Worked in museums in Vienna and 1908-11 Berlin. In 1912-14 travelled in the Near East,…
DIETZ, Friedrich Reinhold. Königsberg 12.1.1805 — Königsberg 5.6.1836. German Physician and Philologist (Historian of Greek and Oriental Medicine). School and from 1823 studies of medicine and philology at Königsberg, Dr.med. there 1826. With a scholarship of the government travelled in France, Italy, England and Spain studying Greek, Arabic and (in…
DICKSON, John Frederick. Harmondsworth, Middlesex 17.9.1835 — Paddington, London 21.12.1891. Sir. British Civil Servant and Pāli Scholar in Sri Lanka. Son of Robert Dickson (1805–1875), a physician, and Mary Ann Coope (1807–1875). Educated in Westminster and studied from 1855 at Christ Church, Oxford. Graduated B.A. in 1859 and joined colonial…
DIBBEN, Cecilia J. 18?? — 19??. Britishwoman, apparently interested in Pāli. Miss. Her sister is perhaps Miss A. M. Dibben, who compiled the index to the first vol. of Buddhadatta’s manuals (L., P.T.S, 1915), rev. by C. A. F. Rhys Davids. In the Niddesa edition (vol. 1. L., P.T.S. 1916) the editors…
DEWHURST, Robert Paget. Clitheroe, Lancashire 21.7.1869 — 27.12.1935. British Civil Servant and Indologist in India. Son of James Dewhurst and Frances Elizabeth Paget. Educated at Clitheroe Grammar School, studies from 1888 at Oxford (Balliol College, M.A.). In 1892 joined the I.C.S., served in North India. Back in Britain (1904?), he…
DE VINCENTIS, Gherardo. 1845 — 19??. Italian Iranian (Persian) Scholar, also interested in Sanskrit. Professor of Persian at Regio Istituto Orientale di Napoli: incaricato 1878, eo. 1890, ord. 1904-07. Died before 1935. Publications: Il Gulistan, ossia il Roseto dello Scheich Sadi di Schiraz. Prima versione italiana … con commentario critico…