SCHLEICHER, August. Meiningen, Thüringen 1821 — Jena 6.12.1868. German Indologist and IE Scholar. Professor in Prague and Jena. Son of Johann Gottlieb Schleicher (1793–1864), a physician with liberal ideas, and Henriette Heym (d. c. 1835). Grew up in Sonneberg near Meiningen. After gymnasium in Coburg and Hildeburghausen studied 1840-41 theology…
SAVIDGE, Frederick William (“Sap Upa”). Stretham near Ely, Cambridgeshire 3.5.1862 — London 26/28.9.1936. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in North-East India. Son of Briggs Savidge (1835–1921), a Baptist grocer and draper, and Sarah Clarke. B.A., Ph.D. Worked as schoolteacher in London. Arrived in India in 1891. Together with his friend —>…
SANTA RITA E SOUSA, José de. 1865 — 1940. Father Apparently an Indian from Konkan, a Catholic Priest and Canon. Professor of Konkani at Esc. Superior Colonial in Lisbon from 1921 and still in the 1930s. Publications: A Civilisação Indo-Árica. 1919. – Elementos gramaticais da língua concani. 181 p. Lisbon 1929.…
SANTANA RODRIGUES, António Aleixo de. Vernã, Salsete 4.7.1887 — Lisbon ?.9.1966. Portuguese (probably Goanese) Physician and Author. After school in Panaji studied at Escola Médica de Nova Goa, graduated 1910. Futher medical studies in Lisbon, M.D. 1919. Worked as physician and Professor of Medicine in Goa. Made Tagore known in…
SANTA ANNA (Santana), Francisco Xavier de (Francesco Saverio di Sant’ Anna, lay Raffaello Pescetto). Celle Ligure near Savona 25.4.1771 — Bombay 7.12.1844. Father. O.C.D. Italian Carmelite Missionary and Konkani Scholar in India. Joined the order in 1790. Finally 1831 titular Archbishop of Sardes and in 1831-44 Apostolic Vicar in Verapoly…
SANGERMANO, Vincentius (Vincenzo). Arpino, Lazio 22.4.1758 — Arpino (or Leghorn?) 28.7.1819. Father. Italian Barnabite Missionary in Burma, a Scholar of Pāli and Burmese. Became novice in 1774. Sent to Burma in 1782. After brief stay in Ava worked long time in Rangoon as Principal of a missionary school. He knew…
SANDFORD, Walter. 1848 — 1???. British Civil Servant or Officer (?) in India. Son of John Sandford. In Secunderabad (1880), soon in London (1885). Publications: “Account of Excavations made near Manikyala, in the Panjab”, IA 9, 1880, 153-158. Sources: Briefly mentioned in a Sandford genealogy found in www.myheritageimages.com.
SANDERSON, Daniel. Cockermouth, Cumberland 9.2.1819 — 1902. Rev. British Wesleyan Missionary in India. Son of Anglican parents, himself Methodist missionary in Mysore State (Bangalore, Mysore, Tumkur, Gubbi) in 1842-67 (1843-44 in South Africa). Back in the U.K. Director of Richmond Theological College in London. Married Martha Perress (d. 1849), two…
SANDBERG, Samuel Louis Graham. Oughtibridge, Yorkshire 9.12.1851 — Bournemouth 2.3.1905. Rev. British Priest and Tibetan Scholar. Son of Rev. Paul Louis Sandberg (1819–1878), a vicar and former (1843-49) missionary in India, with Swedish ancestry, and Maria Graham. Educated in Liverpool and Birkenhead. B.A. 1870 Dublin University, then studied law at Inner…
SAMUELLS, William Leycester. Patna 14.7.1841 — 1899. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of —> E. A. Samuells (1814–1860). From 1857 served in Bengal. As captain, in 1868-72 in Chota Nagpur and Rewa. Then in Barrackpur and Hill Tippera. Retired as colonel in 1890. Publications: Letters on the Rock and Temples…