LANCZKOWSKI, Günter. Kassel 18.5.1917 — Heidelberg 1.8.1993. German Scholar of Religion. Matriculated 1937 and began studies of theology and Indology at Marburg, but was 1939 taken to army. Participated in WW II, in the end war prisoner. In 1946 continued his studies. Ph.D. 1947 Marburg. Further studies at Göttingen. In…
LAMOTTE, Étienne Paul Marie. Dinant, prov. Namur 21.2.1903 — Brussels 5.5.1983. Monseigneur. Belgian Indologist and Catholic Priest. Professor in Louvain. Born in a big family as the son of the court officer and historian Georges Lamotte (1861–1952). After classical education in Dinant took ecclesiastic career like his brother. Now studied…
SCHRÖTER, Julius Erich. 1868 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1900 Leipzig. Apparently active in 1909, possibly as librarian in Leipzig. U. Wokoeck, German Orientalism. has librarian E.S. living in 1868–1965, but the librarian E.S. who died 1965 was born in 1894 (www.o-bib.de/article/view/2015H2S1-32/2445). He came from Leipzig, true, and…
SCHRADER, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich. Wolmirstedt, Prussia (now Sachsen-Anhalt) 19.11.1865 — Berlin 28.8.1922. German Oriental Scholar, Art Historian and Journalist. Educated in Magdeburg, studies at Halle (also art history). Ph.D. 1889 Halle under Pischel. In 1889-91 librarian of D.M.G. In 1891 moved to Constantinople and worked there as college teacher of…
SCHOTSMAN-WOLFERS, Janine (Jeannine). Brussels 1924 — 17.3.1991. Belgian Art Historian. Daughter of sculptor Marcel Wolfers (1886–1976) and Claire(tte) Petrucci da Siena (1899–1994). She was the Head of India and S.E. Asia department of Royal Museums of Art History in Brussels. Married with Jean-Pierre Schotsman (1922–2007). Publications: A few articles about…
STEINER, Margaret(he). 3.5.1872 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1926 Tübingen under Garbe. In 1939 still working under Hauer at Tübingen. Publications: Diss. Verhältnis der Sāṁkhya-tattva-kaumudī zu den älteren Kommentaren zur Sāṁkhyakārikā. Manuscript of 102 p. 1926. – “Der Ahaṁkāra in den ältesten Upaniṣaden”, Festgabe Garbe 1927, 109-114. Sources:…
STEMPEL, Guido Hermann. Ft.Madison, Iowa 18.5.1868 — Martinsville, Morgan county, Indiana 23.12.1955. U.S. Linguist, mainly Anglist, but also IE. Son of Hugo Christian Steeple (1833–1923) and Anna Barbara Degenhardt (1845–1930). Graduated A.B. 1889 from Iowa University, further studies at Leipzig, Chicago and Wisconsin. A.M. 1904 Wisconsin. Taught at Indiana University…
STEPHENSON, John. Padiham, Lancashire 6.2.1871 — London 2.2.1933. British Physician and Zoologist in India. Also a scholar of Urdu, Arabic and Persian, later also of Pashtu and Pañjabi. Educated at Burnley Grammar School, studies of medicine and zoology at Owen’s College, Manchester (B.Sc. 1890, B.Chir. 1893). Worked as physician in…
STEVENSON, John Sinclair. Rathgar, Dublin 4.2.1868 — 8.5.1930. Rev. Irish Missionary in India, the husband of —> Margaret Stevenson (née Adams, married 1906). Son of Rev. William Fleming Stevenson (1832–1884) and Elizabeth Montgomery Sinclair (1838–1916). Studies at Clifton College in Bristol, at Lincoln College, Oxford, at Edinburgh University and at…
STEWART, Caroline Taylor. Memphis Tenn. 18?? — 19??. Miss. U.S. Linguist. Daughter of Rev. Jonathan Deckert Stewart (1831–1879). Studies at Kansas State University (A.B. 1892), University of Michigan (A.M. 1895) and Bryn Mawr. Further studies of Germanics in Germany. Ph.D. 1901 Berlin. From 1905 Assistant Professor of Germanics at University…