WELLER, Friedrich. Markneukirchen, Vogtland 22.7.1889 — Leipzig 19.11.1980. German Indologist. Professor in Leipzig. The only child of Friedrich Wilhelm Weller (1854–1944), a violin maker, and Marie Wettengel (1860–1953). Educated at local village school and from 1901 at Realgymnasium in Plauen. From 1909 studied at Leipzig, first Romance and Germanic philology,…
WELDEN, Ellwood Austin. 1883 — 19??. U.S. Scholar and Diplomat, former Student of Indology. Studies of comparative philology (with Sanskrit), Classics and Romance linguistics at University of Pennsylvania. Ph.D. 1906 there. Further studies at Harvard, Berlin and Bologna. From 1910 Lecturer in Romance Languages at Bryn Mawr. In WW I…
WEISSBACH, Franz Heinrich (until 1890 Weisbach). Chemnitz 25.11.1865 — Markkleeberg near Leipzig 20.2.1944. German Assyriologist. Librarian in Leipzig. Son of Franz Robert Weissbach, a hat maker, and Clara Auguste Leonhardt. Gymnasium in Chemnitz and Zwickau. From 1885 studies of classical and Oriental (F. Delitzsch) philology and theology at Leipzig. Ph.D.…
WEISGERBER, Johann Leo. Metz 25.2.1899 — Bonn 8.8.1985. German (of Lorraine) Linguist and Celtologist. Son of a village teacher, Nikolaus Ludwig Weisgerber, and Maria Müller. The mother died when he was 5 and father when 14. Educated in Metz, Reifeprüfung 1917. Then participated in WW I in German army in…
WEIHRICH, Franz. 26.7.1845 — Vienna 20.6.1910. German Schoolman and former Student of IE Linguistics. Ph.D. 1869 Giessen (Vullers). Tutor of the children of the Austro-Hungarian Erzherzog Carl Ludwig, then 1902-08 school director in Vienna, in 1908 retired. Publications: Diss. De gradibus comparationis linguarum Sanscritae, Graecae, Latinae, Gothicae. 7+108 p. Giessen…
WEIDERT, Alfons Klaus. 21.3.1943 — Bangkok 24.7.1988. German Tibeto-Burman Linguist. Ph.D. 1971 Heidelberg. PD 1982 Kiel. In 1981-84 Chief-Supervisor of the German-Nepalese field-project Linguistic Survey of Nepal. Collected material through field study among more than 40 Tibeto-Burman languages. But he was hard on his informants and lost his research position…
WEIBGEN, Günther. 1896 — 1948. German Indologist. Studied at Berlin (1921 already there) under Lüders. He was too early employed in Berlin library (succeeding Nobel from 1928) and had never time to complete even his Ph.D. Oberbibliothekar 1944. He was well remembered by colleagues because of his great helpfulness. Served…
WECKERLING, Georg Adolf. Friedberg, Hessen 22.5.1882 — 1955. German Physician and Poet. In 1900 matriculated from Friedberg, then studied medicine at Giessen and Kiel. Dr.med. 1907 Giessen. Ph.D. 1929 Giessen. From 1933 living in Darmstadt as practising physician. A Nazi. Publications: Diss. Die Tridoṣa-Lehre in der indischen Medizin. 57 p. Frankfurt…
WECKER, Otto. Neuler/Rottenburg, near Tübingen 31.8.1882 — Göttingen 4.9.1965. German Indologist and Classical Scholar. Studies of philology at Berlin and Münster,then student of Garbe at Tübingen. Ph.D. 1905 Tübingen. Also Theologian, ordained priest in 1906. Worked as gymnasium teacher in Tübingen (1909), from 1913 in Hildesheimand later on (1923/39) in…
WEBSTER, William Frederick. London 15.7.1855 — London 10.3.1929. British Lawyer and Indologist. Son of William Thomas Webster. Attended the City School in London, from 1874 studies at Trinity College, Cambridge (i.al. under Cowell). B.A. 1878, Indian Language Trip., 1st class 1879, M.A. 1881. From 1879 law studies, Lincoln’s Inn, in…