PERRIN, Marshall Livingston

PERRIN, Marshall Livingston. Wellesley Hills (now Frantville) county Norfolk, Mass. 31.7.1855 — Obod. 2.12.1935. U.S. Linguist. Professor in Boston. Son of Noah Perrin (1810–1894) and Philenia Winship Stone. Educated at Harvard (A.B. 1874, A.M. 1876), post-graduate studies 1877-80 at Harvard, 1883-88 in Germany, mostly at Göttingen, where Ph.D. 1889. In…

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PEROGLIO, Celestino

PEROGLIO, Celestino. Palestro 20.4.1824 — Bologna 20.6.1909. Italian Historian and Geographer, interested in Indian Literature. Taught history and geography at technical school in Vercelli (founded by himself in 1854). In 1861-75 Professor of Geography at Turin. and finally at University of Bologna. A Garibaldian nationalist and a freemason (grand master…

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PERINI, Osvaldo

PERINI, Osvaldo. Verona 14.12.1826 — Verona 14.7.1890. Italian Journalist, Author, Historian and Translator interested in Sanskrit Literature. Son of Angelo Perini and Maria Mantica. In 1849 expelled as a nationalist from Verona by Austrian government, worked as teacher in Breno near Brescia, and, after a while in Lugano, in other…

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PEPPE, William Claxton

PEPPE, William Claxton. Birdpur, Gorakhpur dt. 1.2.1852 — Welshpool, Montgomeryshire 19.2.1937. British Engineer in India, interested in Archaeology. Son of —> William G. Peppe (1822–1889) and  Delia Patience Bown. Educated in Aberdeen, then studied there engineering. He inherited from his father the indigo estate of Birdwood in Piprahwa (in U.P.…

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PEPPE, William G.

PEPPE, William George. Aberdeen 19.4.1822 — on Red Sea 19.7.1889. British (Scottish) Businessman in India, interested in Archaeology. Son of George Peppe (born Peape, 1785–1837) and Janet Thomson, brother of —> Th. F. Peppe (1826/33–1907). Studied engineering at Aberdeen. In 1843 went to India with his brother George (1820–1864) to…

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PEPPE, Thomas Frazer

PEPPE, Thomas Frazer. Scotland 1826/33 (not 1839/44) — Ranchi, India 4.6.1907. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India, interested in Archaeology and Photography. Son of George Peppe (born Peape, 1785–1837, as he died in 1837, the birth years 1839 and 1844 are impossible) and Janet Thomson, brother of —> William G.…

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PELLIOT, Paul.

PELLIOT, Paul. Paris 28.5.1878 — Paris 26.10.1945. French Sinologist and Central Asian Scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of Charles Théodore Pelliot (1847–1935), an industrial chemist, and Marie Renault, educated in Paris (collège Massillon, lycée Charlemagne and collège Stanislas). Studied in Paris for diplomatic career at École des sciences politiques and…

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PAULI, Carl

PAULI, Carl Eugen. Barth, Vorpommern 14.10.1839 — Lugano, Switzerland 7.8.1901. German IE Scholar and Etruscologist. Son of Carl Johann Christian Pauli (1789–1856) and Henrica Roepke. Matriculated from Putbus, studies at Erlangen and Greifswald. Ph.D. 1862 Greifswald. Worked as schoolteacher in Stettin, from 1867 Lauenburg/Pommern, 1860 Hannoversch-Münden, 1873 Hannover and 1876-83…

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PASTOR RODRÍGUEZ, Julián de

PASTOR RODRÍGUEZ, Julián de. 18?? — 19??. Spanish Lawyer and Historian. Doctor en Derecho. In Sanskrit autodidact, taught it at the University of Zaragoza in 1869-70, later worked as notary in Madrid (still 1901). Publications: Wrote on Spanish history. Sources: Alvarez 54f.; scanty stray notes in Internet.

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PARSONS, Francis Cotton

PARSONS, Francis Cotton. Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire 29.11.1867 — Lausanne, Vaud 23.12.1924. British Civil Servant in India. Son of a farmer, William Baldock Parsons, and Louisa Ambrose. Educated in Waterbeach and Reading, studied at Cambridge (Trinity College). Joined I.C.S. in 1886, served in different parts of South India. District and Sessions Judge…

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