PROKOSCH, Eduard. Eger, Bohemia (Cheb, Czechia) 15.3.1876 — New Haven, Conn. 11.8.1938. U.S. (born Austrian) Linguist, Specialist of IE and Germanic. Son of Wenzel Prokosch, a schoolmaster, and Marie Fischer. Studied jurisprudence at Prague and Vienna (advocate examination 1897). Emigrated to the U.S.A. 1898 (citizen 1904). Worked briefly as reporter…
PONETTE, Pierre August Maria Jozef. Ronse, East Flanders 6.3.1910 — Ranchi 3.2.2000. Father. S.J. Belgian Catholic Missionary in India. Son of René Ponette (1874–1918), textile manufacturer and advocate, and Margareta Van Coppenolle (1882–1969). Joined S.J. in 1927 and 1931 its Indian mission. In 1932-35 studies of language and theology in Shembaganur,…
PINGREE, David Edwin. New Haven, CT 2.1.1933 — Providence, RI 11.11.2005. U.S. Indologist and Historian of Science. Son of Daniel Pingree (1902–1986) and Elizabeth Maconi. Grew up in Providence and attended school there. Graduated 1950 from Phillips Academy in Andover. Studied Sanskrit, classics and mathematics, then also Arabic, at Harvard. Mainly…
PHILIPS, Cyril Henry. Worchester 27.12.1912 — Swanage, Dorset 29.12.2005. Sir. British Historian. In the 1920s some years in Bihar, where his father worked as engine driver. Educated at Rock Ferry High School. From 1931 studies at Liverpool, graduated 1934 in history. Then studies at S.O.A.S., Ph.D. 1940. In WW II served…
PETROVIĆ, Svetozar. Karlovac 28.6.1931 — Novi Sad 23.10.2005. Croatian Scholar of Literature. Graduated from Zagreb 1956, also studied Indology at Allahabad. Ph.D. 1966 in Croatian literature. In 1959-70 Assistant and Docent of Yugoslavian Literature at Zagreb. In 1970-77 Professor of Literature at Novi Sad and from 1977 at Belgrade. Retired…
PETERS, John Punnett. New York City 16.12.1852 — New York City10.11.1921. U.S. Oriental Scholar. Son of Rev. Thomas McClure Peters and Alice Clarissa Richmond, as child ofetn ill. After Hopkins School studies at Yale (B.A. 1873). Ph.D. 1876 Yale. Ordined priest 1877. Further studies at Berlin (1879-81) and Leipzig (1882-83).…
PELLY, Richard Lawrence. Coldharbour, Surrey 18.7.1886 — Salisbury, Wiltshire 7.4.1976. Rev. British. Son of Rev. Canon Richard Arnold Pelly (1856–1949) and Margaret Jane Buxton (1859–1903). Educated at Marlborough College. Studies at Cambridge (Clare College), B.A. 1910, M.A. 1912. In 1915-18 served as army chaplain. In 1918-26 Vice-Principal of Bishop’s College…
PARRINDER, Edward Geoffrey Simons. New Barnet, Hertfordshire 10.4.1910 — 16.6.2005. British Scholar of Comparative Religion. Methodist minister. Son of a glove dealer, of a practising Wesleyan Methodist family. Educated in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, when 16 began working as a railway booking clerk. Interested in religion and mission studied 1929-32 at Richmond…
PAREJA Casañas, Félix Maria. Barcelona 15.12.1890 — Alcalá de Henares 26.8.1983. S.J. Padre. Spanish Islamic Scholar. Joined S.J. in 1915. Noviciate in Valenci. Studied in Zaragoza, Barcelona and Cambridge. Ph.D. 1935 Madrid (diss. on al-Andalus). In 1935-39 taught Arabic, Islamology and Latin at Bombay University. In 1939-54 taught Missiology and Islamology at…
NIGGEMEIER, Hermann. Münsterland 1908 — 2005. German Anthropologist. From 1926 studies of geography and anthropology at Köln. Ph.D. 1932 Köln. Fieldwork in India and Moluccas. After brief stay with Koppers in Vienna from 1934 Assistant, then Oberassistent in Frobenius-Institut in Frankfurt a/M. In 1940-45 in army, then war prisoner, released…