GRAFFUNDER, Alfred. 1801 — 5.7.1875. German Teacher. From 1827 in Erfurt. Educational Inspector (Regierungs-Schulrat, 1835). The Romani book was based on a paper read in 1835 before the Kgl. Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften in Erfurt. Perhaps by the same: A.G. (Alumnen-Inspektor am Königlichen Joachimsthalischen Gymnasium): Ueber Offenbarung: Eine Untersuchung. Berlin 1827.…
GORDON, Antoinette Koscherak. 24.3.1892 — 24.3.1975. U.S. Anthropologist, Specialist of Tibetan Religious Art. From 1936 worked in the Department of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History. Publications: The Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism. 32+129 p. N.Y. 1939, rev. ed. 31+131 p. ill. Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo 1959. – Tibetan…
GOLDSTREAM, William. 1841 — 1929?. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of John Goldstream and Margaret Dryburgh Menzies. Served in North India. Married 1866 Fanny Caroline Anson (1847–1918), six children. Publications: Edited: Records of the Intelligence Department of the North-West Provinces of India During the Mutiny of 1857. Edinburgh 1902. –…
GOLDSMID, Frederic John. Milano 19.5.1818 — Brook Green, Hammersmith (London) 12.1.1908. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Major-General. Son of Lionel Prager Goldsmid (1797–1866), an officer, and Eliza Frances Campbell. Educated in Paris, at King’s College School and King’s College in London, entered Madras army in 1839. Military service in China…
GOL’DBERG, Nikolaj Maksimovič. Moscow 23.4.1891 — Moscow 29.10.1961. Russian Historian of Modern India. Born in a merchant family. Studies at Heidelberg in 1910-12, in 1913-16 at agricultural academy, 1916-18 in army. In 1919-25 in various offices of the Soviet administration (mainly Komintern) in Turkestan, 1926-27 correspondent of TASS in Ankara.…
GIRARD, A. 18?? — Liège 1887. Abbé. Belgian Indologist. Perhaps a student of Nève. He was reputed to have translated the Rigveda in French, but the manuscript has disappeared. Publications: Le Rig-Véda et ses derniers exégètes. Études védiques. 32 p. Liège 1886. – Translated the Psalms. Sources: Briefly mentioned by…
GOLDSACK, William. Glen Osmond, South Australia 29.11.1871 — 26.6.1957. Rev. Australian Baptist Missionary in India. Son of Mark Goldsack (1846–1914) and Mary Dalgleish Ferguson. Worked in eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh) from 1899, stationed at Pabna. In 1917-18 in Syria and Egypt, six months each, now learned Arabic. Retired in 1923 because…
GOIDANICH (Petar Gabrijel Gojdanić), Pier Gabriele. Volosca di Lussimpiccolo (now Volosko in Croatia) 30.6.1868 — Bologna 27.10.1953. Italian (with Croatian background) Linguist. Son of Croatian parents, Pietro Goidanich and Antonella (Antonietta?) Stuparich. Gymnasium in Capodistria (Koper). Studies at Milano under Ascoli, then eight years teacher in Campania. From 1899 taught…
GACHET, Benjamin. Lille 1839 — 1???. French Linguist. In 1871 he was a repetiteur at the É.P.H.É. In some sources called Brachet. The site digitalprojects.wpi.art mentions a genealogical manuscript by Benjamin Joseph Marie Gachet (1839–1891 – the same? Publications: “Les missionnaires dans l’Inde actuelle”, La Libre Conscience 6.11. & 13.11.1869.…
FRANCIS, Henry Thomas. West Raynham, Norfolk 22.10.1837 — Cambridge 28.6.1924. British Indologist (Pāli scholar). Son of William Francis and Mary Gay. Education: schools at Walsingham & Ipswitch; from 1856 studies at Cambridge (B.A. 1860, M.A. 1863), 1861-73 Fellow of Caius College. Assistant schoolmaster in Kensington 1864-65, Bromsgrove 1865-73 and at…