STAVISKIJ, Boris Jakovlevič. Svetlyj, obl. Irkutsk 25.11.1926 — 8.1.2006. Russian Central Asian Scholar (History and Archaeology). Son of an official. Graduated 1949 in Leningrad in history. Kand. ist. nauk 1954, Dr. ist. nauk 1979. In 1949-65 naučnyj sotrudnik in Central Asian Sector of Hermitage, in 1965-68 in Museum of Oriental…
STANLEY, M. Victor. near Omro, Wisc. 1866 — 19??. U.S. Studied at Lawrence University, 1887-1892, then at University of Wisconsin (B.A. 1893) and University of Oregon (M.A. 1894, LL.B. 1904). Ph.D. 1895 Yale. In 1900 admitted to bar, for a while practised in Portland, Oregon. Then teaching Latin, soon Supervising-Principal…
STANG, Christian Schweigaard. Christiania (Oslo) 15.3.1900 — Kirkenes 2.7.1977. Notwegian IE and Blato-Slavic Linguist. Professor in Oslo. Son of lawyer, politician and academic Fredrik Stang (1867–1941) and Caroline Schweigaard (1871–1900). Studied Germanistics and Classics at Oslo (also Sanskrit under Konow and Church Slavonian) and 1920-21 Paris (Meillet). In 1924-25 fieldwork…
SOLTA, Georg Renatus. Vienna 18.4.1919 — Vienna 2.5.2005. Austrian Linguist. Educated in Linz. From 1934 studies of IE, classics and Romance languages at Vienna, Ph.D. 1939. His main teachers were Kretschmer, Havers, A. Lesky and N. Jokl. Worked as librarian ans assistant at Vienna, in 1944-49 seriously ill. PD 1953…
SINCLAIR, Albert Thomas. Brighton, Middlesex, Mass. 4.12.1844 — Boston, Mass. 21.4.1911. U.S. Lawyer and Gipsy Scholar. Son of Thomas Sinclair (1805–1883) and Caroline Abby Tracy. Worked as lawyer in Brighton, then in Boston. Married 1889 Mary Terrell Ross (1863–1902), three daughters. Publications: “An American-Romani vocabulary, by Albert Thomas Sinclair; comp. and…
SILBURN, Aliette. Paris 29.4.1921 — 2005. French. Daughter of English father, Walter John Silburn (1883–1928), and French mother, Berthe Hélène Dupuis (1880–1953), younger sister of —> Lilian Silburn (1908–1993). Apparently studied Sanskrit, but probably did not continue it further. She was living in Paris in her original home with her…
SHARP, Ralph Norman. Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire 23.6.1896 — Chippenham, Wiltshire 11.9.1995. Rev. British Missionary and Iranian Scholar. Son of John Emilius Ernest Steigenberger Sharp (1847–1951), Keeper of the Public Records, and Mary Elizabeth Ballance. After school in Westminster studied Theology and Classics at Cambridge (Queen’s College), M.A. Worked 40 years…
SELTMANN, Friedrich. Stuttgart 21.2.1912 — 3.9.1997. German Indian and South-East Asian Scholar, specialist of Theatre Traditions (especially shadow puppetry). Studied Comparative Religion, Ethnology and Indology at Tübingen, Ph.D. 1960. Based in Stuttgart, in the 1970s and 80s several study travels to India and South-East Asia. In the late 1980s in…
SCHUMACHER, Karl. 1??? — ????. German Student of Religion. Ph.D. 1928 Tübingen. Publications: Diss. Ein Vergleich der buddhistischen Versenkung mit den jesuitischen Exerzitien. 8+78 p. Stuttgart 1929. Sources: Diss. in Janert.
SCHOFIELD, Sylvia Anne (née Terry-Smith, then Matheson). London 20.5.1916 — Javea, Spain 2.3.2006. British Archaeologist. Daughter of William Horace Smith, an architect and chartered surveyor, and Annie Terry, a Salvation Army officer, educated at Wimbledon Technical College. A free journalist from the age of 16, during WWII in BBC. She…