GUERRINI BIONE, Pia. Ravenna 1884 — Bologna 1971. Italian Student of Indology. In 1903-07 studies at Scuola Normale Superieure, Pisa. Dr.phil. Living in Ravenna (1910). One Cesare Bione wrote on Latin in Pisa 1910. Publications: Edited: Mādhavānalakāmandakandalākathā. 117 p. Annali della Scuola normale 21. Pisa 1908 or rather 22, 1910.…
GUÉRINOT, Armand Albert. Messon (Aube) 25.11.1872 — 1940?. French Indologist. Studied under Regnaud at Lyon, Ph.D. there 1900. Also dr.med. Further studies at Bonn under Jacobi. In 1909 he was “correcteur pour la typographie orientale” in Imprimérie nationale, in 1924 no longer a member of Société asiatique. Mainly a scholar…
GÜNTERT, Hermann Georg Konrad. Worms 5.11.1886 — Heidelberg 23.4.1948. German IE scholar. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of a Roman Catholic merchant and Protestant mother of Huguenot background, himself followed mother. Educated in Weinheim and, after father’s death in 1897, in Worms. In school he learned Hebrew and privately Sanskrit. Matriculated…
GUÉNON, René Jean Marie Joseph. Blois 15.11.1886 — Cairo 7.1.1951. French Philosopher and Author interested in Indian philosophy, rather uncritical admirer of the East. Son of Jean-Baptiste Guénon, an architect, and Anna-Léontine Jolly. Grew up in a Catholic home, school in Blois, suffered often of poor health. He studied mathematics…
GUBLER(-ITEN), Theophil. 1874 — 1954. Swiss Teacher, former Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1902/03 Basel, under Wackernagel. Taught Latin, Greek, history, geography and gymnastics at gymnasium in Basel 1906-34. Married Lina Iten, at least one child. Publications: diss. Die Patronymica im Alt-Indischen. 108 p. Göttingen 1903. – Works not related to…
GRÜNWEDEL, Albert. Munich 31.7.1856 — Lenggries bei Bad Tölz, Bavaria 28.10. (or 7.11.?) 1935. German Indologist, Tibetologist, Archaeologist and Art Historian. Museum Director in Berlin. Son of Karl Grünwedel (1815–1895), a painter and lithograph, and Franziska (Fanny) La Roch, educated at Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich. In 1876-79 studied at Munich classical…
GRUBE, Elimar Max. Maxheim near Königsberg (now Maszewy in Poland) 31.12.1851 — Dresden 23.5.1891. German Student of Indology. Son of Julius Alexander Grube, an estate owner, and Emilie Schafer (1833–1892), nephew of zoologist Eduard Grube (1812–1880). School in Königsberg, in 1860 the family moved to Breslau and he went to…
GROUSSET, René Jean François Marie. Aubais (Gard) 5.9.1885 — Paris 12.11(9?).1952. French Historian of Asia. Lost his father before birth (Louis-Xavier-René Grousset 1860–1885, historian and poet). After history studies at Montpellier moved to Paris and started Museum work. Participated in the WW I as sergeant and was seriously wounded in…
GROSSET, Joanny. Lyon (Rhône) 29.3.1862 — 1931. French Pioneer of the Study of Indian Music. From the university of Lyon, a student of Regnaud (who wrote the Preface to the 1898 book). Licencié-ès-lettres. Unfortunately, he shared some ideas of his time, looking for “pure, original Aryan music”. He gave ideas…
GROSLIER, Bernard-Philippe. Phnom Penh 10.5.1926 — Paris 29.5.1986. French Archaeologist and Historian of South-East Asia. A specialist of Cambodia, but also wrote on Gandhāra art (1951). Son of Georges Groslier (1887–1945), the founder and first curator of the Museum of Phnom Penh, and Suzanne Cecile Poujade. Born in Cambodia he…