PISCHEL, Richard. Breslau 18.1.1849 — Madras 26.12.1908. German Indologist. Professor in Kiel, Halle and Berlin. Son of Ernst Gottfried Pischel, a manufacturer of surgical instruments, and Emilie Haertel (d. 1857). After school in Breslau studied Sanskrit (under Stenzler) and classical philology at Breslau. Ph.D. 1870 Breslau. After army service in…
PISANI, Vittore. Rome 23.2.1899 — Como 22.12.1990. Italian IE and Classical Scholar, also much interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Milano. From 1916 studied in Rome, but in 1917-18 participated in the WW I. Ph.D. 1921 Rome (diss. on the Helena of Euripides). From 1930 PD (libero docente) at Università di…
PINNA, Emilio. 18?? — 19??. Italian Author interested in Sanskrit, in the 1910s. From Cagliari (?). Publications: Translated: “Ṛtusaṁhāra o il Ciclo delle Stagioni: poemetto lirico-erotico tradotto dall’indiano antico con note critiche ed esegetiche e un raffronto col Meghaduta”, Mem. della R. Accad. delle Scienze di Torino 61, 1911, 1-59;…
PIGULEVSKAJA, Nina Viktorovna (née Stebnickaja). St.Petersburg 1.(13.)1.1894 — Leningrad 17.2.1970. Russian Historian of Byzantium and the Near East. Born of an originally Polish family of minor nobility, daughter of Ieronim Ivanovič Stebnickij (1832–1897), a geodesist and lawyer, grew up in St.Petersburg. From 1918 studies of Semitics under P. K. Kokovcov,…
PHILLOTT, Douglas Craven. London 28.6.1860 — 11.9.1930. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel (1906). Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Rodney Phillott (1812–1876) of Indian army and Lilias Syme. Educated 1874-78 at Felsted School in Essex and from 1880 at Sandhurst. Lieutenant 1881, Captain 1891, Major 1900. Served in Punjab Cavalry, for…
PHILLIPS, Maurice. Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire 11.4.1839 — Southport, Merseyside 27.8.1910. Rev. British (Welsh) Missionary in India. Studies at Bedford College, in 1861 left for Madras. From 1862 worked for London Missionary Society in Salem, Coimbatore and from 1891 in Madras, retired 1908 and returned to the U.K. Fellow of Madras University…
PHEAR, John Budd. Earl Stonham, Suffolk 9.2.1825 — Exmouth, Devon 7.4.1905. Sir. British Lawyer in India. Son of Rev. J. Phear, a rector, and Catherine Wreford. Educated privately, studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850), then Fellow, Lecturer of Mathematics and Assistant Tutor at Clare College, Cambridge. “Senior…
PFUNGST, Arthur Joseph. Frankfurt a.M. 9.3.1864 — Frankfurt a.M. 3.10.1912. German Industrialist, Poet and Bauddha. Son of Jewish parents, Julius Pfungst (1834–1899), a tobacco merchant, and Rosette Bertha Oppenheim (1839–1922). Studied chemistry and mathematics at Leipzig (Ph.D. 1886). Succeeded his father as one of the owners of Naxos-Union (manufacturing grinding…
PEZZI, Domenico. Turin 20.4.1844 — Turin 24.10.1905. Italian IE Scholar. Professor in Turin. Studies at Turin, among other things Sanskrit under Flechia. Ph.D. 1865. Taught at Turin University (Facolta di lettere): from 1871 aggregato alla Facoltà, from 1876 incaricato del corso di grammatica greca, from 1878 Professore straordinario di grammatica…
PÉTURSSON, Sigurður Kristófer. Klettakoti á Snæfellsnesi 9.7.1882 — 19.8.1925. Icelandic Literate and Self-Taught Amateur Scholar. Son of Pétur Frímana Guđmundsson (1858–1894) and þórkatia Jóhannsdóttir (1841–1926). An Esperantist and a Theosophist in Reykjavik. From early youth suffered of several diseases. Ph.D. Publications: Transl.: Hávamál Indíalands (Bhagavad-gíta). 126 p. Reykjavik 1924. – Wrote…