SCHLEGEL, Gustaaf. Oegstgeest near Leiden 30.9.1840 — Leiden 15.10.1903. Dutch Sinologist. Son of museum director Hermann Schlegel, a German zoologist who had moved to the Netherlands in 1827, and Cornelia Buddingh. Gymnasium in Leiden. In 1857 went to China in order to collect bird specimens, but soon interested in languages…
SCHLAGINHAUFEN, Otto. St.Gallen 8.11.1879 — Kilchberg, Canton Zürich 14.11.1973. Swiss Anthropologist and Eugenicist. Son of merchant Daniel Otto Schl. and Emma Baumann, gymnasium in Bern. In 1899-1904 studied anthropology at Zürich. Ph.D. 1905. In 1906-11 worked as anthropologist in Dresden Museum of Zoology and Anthropology. In 1907-10 fieldwork in the…
SARASIN, Paul Benedict. 11.12.1856 — 7.4.1929. Swiss Naturalist and Ethnologist. Son of politician Karl S. and Elisabeth Sauvain, a wealthy family, second cousin of —> Fritz Sarasin, with whom he then had a lifelong friendship. Together they studied zoology at Würzburg. In 1883-86 they made zoological and anthropological fieldwork in Ceylon,…
SARASIN, Fritz (Karl Friedrich). Basel 3.12.1859 — Lugano 23.3.1942.Swiss Naturalist. Son of cotton factory owner Felix S. (d. 1862), second cousin of —> Paul Sarasin, with whom he then had a lifelong friendship. Together they studied zoology at Würzburg. In 1883-86 they made zoological and anthropological fieldwork in Ceylon, 1893-96 and…
RYBOT, Norman Victor Lacey. Jersey 7.1.1874 — Jersey 18.5.1961. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Colonel G. O. Rybot of Bengal Artillery. Joined Indian army in 1897, posted in the Punjab. In 1903-04 participated as Lieutenant in Younghusband’s expedition to Lhasa. In WW I in Suez Canal defence and in Mesopotamia…
ROYEN, Gerlach (born Nicolaus Jacobus Hubertus Royen). Valkenburg 18.10.1880 — Utrecht 4.2.1955. O.F.M. Father. Dutch Linguist. Educated in Sittard, joined O.F.M. 1898, ordained priest 1905. In 1905-11 gymnasium teacher in Venray, 1911-14 and 1920-22 studied comparative linguistics at Leiden. Ph.D. 1926 Leiden, under Uhlenbeck (being his last student). From 1932 eo.…
ROUSSEAU, Pierre (pseudonym Pierre Vellones). Paris 29.3.1889 — Paris 17.7.1939. French Composer and Painter. Educated at Collège Stanislas. Studied medicine, from 1914 in the army. After 1926 seriously ill. He was rather noted composer with wide production of different genres (including the ballet Le Paradis d’Amitabha 1938). Publications: “L’art du Tibet:”, RAA 4, 1927, 21-39 (les…
ROSSILLON, Pierre. 22.9.1874 — 22.3.1947. S.F.S. Catholic Missionary in India. In 1898 ordained priest of Missionariesof St. Francis de Sales d’Annecy and sent to India. Worked in Vizagapatam. From 1919 Titular Bishop of Epiphania in Cilicia, 1926-47 Bishop of Vizagapatam. Publications: “Moeurs et Coutumes du peuple Kui, Indes Anglaises”, Anthropos 6, 1911, 994-1009 &…
ROSSET, Carl Wilhelm. Freiburg i. Br. 24.4.1851 — Duderstadt 18.6.1923. German Merchant, Adventurer and Collector. In 1885 he spent two months in the Maldives and took the very first photographs of the islanders. Later also visited Africa. Publications: “On the Maldive Islands, More Especially Treating of Málé Atol”, JRAnthrInst 16, 1887, 164-174. Sources: *S.…
ROEPSTORFF, Frederik Adolph de. on sea 25.3.1842 — Kamorte, Nicobars 24.10.1883.Danish Scholar and Missionary. Son of sea captain Adolph de Roepstorff and Charlotte Georgiana Holmes, baptized in Cape Town, which gave him English citizenship. Studied at Copenhagen and at Horsens Statsskole, graduated 1863. In 1867 went to India and became…