DAMANT, Guybon Henry. Cowes, Isle of Wight 9.5.1846 — Khonoma, Nagaland 14.10.1879. British Civil Servant and Ethnologist in India (1869-79). Son of Henry James Damant (1816–1901), a lawyer, and Elizabeth Johnson Knight (1823–1906). Educated at St. Paul’s School (or Merchant Taylor’s School?) in London. Studies from 1864 at Christ’s College,…
DALTON, Ormonde Maddock. Cardiff 30.1.1866 — Holford, Somerset 2.2.1945. British Art Historian and Classical Scholar, a Specialist of Early Christian Art. Son of Thomas Masters Dalton, a lawyer, and Emily Mansford, educated at Harrow and at New College, Oxford. Travelled in France, Germany, Austria (studied under Strzygowski), and India. Served…
DALTON, Edward Tuite (or Tuite-Dalton). England? 1815 — Cannes 30.12.1880. British Colonial Officer and Ethnologist in India. Son of music composer Edward Tuite Dalton (1783–1821, of Irish origin) and Olivia Stevenson (1792–1834). Educated at Harrow. “Entered the Army, 1835; in expeditions against frontier tribes of Assam 1839-40, and 1842, commanded…
DALGLEISH, Andrew. 1853 — near Karakorum 6.4.1888. British (Scottish) Tradesman, Traveller, Spy and Geographer of Central Asia. “For years [from 1873] he journeyed for commercial purposes between Kashmir and Yarkand, joined the Central Asian Trading Company, went with a party to Yarkand, and afterwards made frequent journeys to Kashgar; in…
DALGADO, Sebastião Rodolfo. Assagão, Goa 8.5.1855 — Lisbon 4.4.1922. Monsenhor. Indo-Portuguese Indologist. Professor in Lisbon. Born in a Brahman family, his ancestors were called Desai. Son of Ambrose Dalgado, a landowner in Bardez, and Florinda Rosa de Souza. School in Mapuça, Goa, studies of theology at Rachol (also learned Latin,…
DAHLMANN, Joseph. Koblenz 14.10.1861 — Tokyo 22.6.1928. Father. S.J. German Indologist, later in Japan. Son of a tailor, Johann Simon Dahlmann (1831–1905), and Catharina Schulten, educated in 1873-78 at Feldkirchen Jesuit College, joined the S.J. in the age of 17 in 1878. Studies in the Netherlands, the U.K. and Puerto…
DAHLKE, Paul Wilhelm Eduard. Osterode, Ostpreussen (now Ostróda, Poland) 25.1.1865 — Berlin-Frohnau 29.2.1928. German Bauddha, Physician in Berlin. Son of a civil servant, August Dahlke and Wilhelmine Reinholz, a big and poor family. Gymnasium in Osnabrück, Hannover and Frankfurt a.M., from 1883 studied medicine in Berlin and specialized in homeopathy.…
BAER, Emil. Rifferswil in Loo, Canton Zürich 23.12.1884 — Dielsdorf, Canton Zürich 8.11.1945. Swiss Priest and Student of Indology. Son of the factory owner Theodor Baer and Anna Leuthold. School at home village, in Affoltern and in Zürich, from 1906 studies at Zürich: theology, classical languages, Arabic and Sanskrit (under…
CYBIKOV, Gombožab Cèbekovič (G. Tsöbikov, G. Tsèbègèj, born G. Montuev). Urdo-Aga, district Čita, Transbaikalia 20.4.1873 — Aginskoe, Burjatia 20.9.1930. Russian Buryat Scholar of Buddhism. Son of Cèbek Montujev, a literate and well-to-do Buryat. After gymnasium in Čita (one of the first four Buryat students admitted) studies of medicine at Tomsk,…
CUST, Robert Needham. Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire 24.2.1821 — Campden Hill, London 28.10.1909. British Indologist. Son of Hon. and Rev. Henry Cckayne Cust (1780–1861), of a noble family (his uncle was Earl Brownlow), and Anna Maria Needham. Educated at Eton, planned first to become a lawyer and began studies at Trinity College,…