ALLEN, Albert Henry. 18?? — 19??, in 1900 in San Francisco. U.S. Indologist? Probably the same A. H. Allen whom University of California Graduates 1864–1905 (1905, p. 58) mentions as A.B. 1898 U.C.L.A. and M.A. 1900 Harvard (English & Sanskrit). Perhaps also the same as book historian Albert Henry Allen…
ALLARD, Jean François. St.Tropez 8.3.1785 — Peshawar 23.1.1839. French General in North-West India. Son of Jean François Philippe Allard (1758–1828) and Marie Claire Vicard (1758–1785). From 1803 in cavalry, served in Italy and was the aide-de-camp of marshal Brune. Legion d’honneur. Like some other officers he turned after Waterloo to…
ALLAN, John. Bolton, East Lothian 8.8.1884 — Edinburgh 26.8.1955. British (Scottish) Numismatician and Indologist. Son of John Gray Allan, a head master, grew up on Longniddry. Educated from 1899 at Royal High School in Edinburgh and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Leipzig. From 1907 working in British Museum, in…
ALEXANDER, James Edward. Stirling 16.10.1803 — Ryde, Isle of Wight 2.4.1885. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of banker Edward Alexander and Catherine Glas. Educated at colleges in Edinburgh and Glasgow and at Sandhurst. In 1821 joined Madras cavalry. In February 1824 he visited the Ajanta Caves (he…
ALEMANY Y BOLUFER, José. Cullera near Valencia 1.7.1866 — Madrid 26.10.1934. Spanish Linguist, translator of Sanskrit Texts. Born in a humble farmer family he could only after many hardships begin his education in Valencia, and had again to interrupt it and work in his native village. He went on studying…
ALEKSANDROV, F. G. 18?? — 19??. Russian (Ukrainian?) Indologist or IE Scholar? He worked at Odessa University, but in 1922 was exiled as a member of KD Party and disappears. Publications: In Russian: “K skloneniju indoevropejskih osnov na -e/o v sanskritskom narečii drevneindijskogo”, Učenye zapiski vysšej školy g. Odessy 2…
ALEKSANDROV, Aleksandr Ivanovič (Monk Anastasij). Baiterjakovo, gub. Kazan 16/28.4.1861 — Petrograd 23.6.1918. Russian Slavist and IE Scholar. Son of a priest. School in Kazan, from 1879 studies at Kazan (under Baudouin de Courtenay and Kruševskij, kand. 1883), then at Dorpat (Tartu). PD 1886 Tartu, soon (1886) Professor of Comparative Linguistics…
ALBRIGHT, Ruth Norton (née Ruth Norton). Elizabeth, Union County. NJ 1.6.1892 — Baltimore 1.10.1979. U.S. Indologist. Daughter of Paul Thornley Norton (1865–1936) and Caroline Bain. Student of Bloomfield at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Ph.D. 1921 Johns Hopkins. Right after Ph.D., in 1921, she married her fellow-student, the soon well-known Semitic…
ALABASTER, Henry. Hastings, Sussex 22.5.1836 — Bangkok 8.8.1884. British Diplomat in South-East Asia, interested in Buddhism. Son of James Chaloner Alabaster (1806–1840) and Harriet Sophia Woodman (1807–1840), educated at King’s College, London. Served as interpreter to British consulate-general in Bangkok 1864-71 (Wikipedia says from 1856, Garnier 1857), finally acting consul.…
AICHELE, Walther Gustav Paul. Höhefeld, Wertheim near Stuttgart 27.1.1889 — Hamburg 1.5.1971. German Indonesian and Romani Scholar. Probably son of Johann Jacob Aichele (1863–1947) and Emilie Barbara Weiss. From 1913 studied theology and Oriental languages at Heidelberg, Halle and Freiburg. Ph.D. 1915 Heidelberg, From 1914 studied Indonesian under Otto Dempwolff…