EDWARDS, James Fairbrother. Bolton, Lancastershire 25.3.1875 — Auburndale, Polk County, Florida 5.12.1951. Rev. British Missionary and Indologist, especially a Marathi Scholar. Son of Isaac Edwards and Sarah Brown. Educated at Wesleyan Methodist Theological College in Handsworth, Birmingham, then 8 years in charge of churches in England. Arrived in India in…
EDWARDES, Stephen Meredyth. 19.1.1873 — Felden, Hertfordshire 1.1.1927. British Civil Servant and Historian in India, from 1923 editor of the Indian Antiquary. Son of the Rev. Stephen Edwardes /d. 1886) and Ellen Edwardes. Educated at Eton, studies at Christ Church, Oxford. Passed the I.C.S. examination in 1894 and was sent…
EDMAN, Lars. Kalf (Älfsborg län) 22.11.1824 — 27.5.1921. Swedish Oriental Scholar and Linguist (Germanic), also interested in Sanskrit. Son of a farmer, educated in Gothenburg. From 1847 studies at Uppsala, fil.kand. (Ph.D.) 1857. From 1857 Docent (PD) i österländska språken (Oriental languages) at Uppsala, from 1863 adjunkt (Associate Professor) of…
EDGERTON, Franklin. Lemars, Iowa 24.7.1885 — Laramie, Wyoming 7.12.1963. U.S. Indologist. Professor in New Haven. Son of a civil servant, Charles Eugene Edgerton (1861–1932), and Annie Benedict White, his younger brothers were the lawyer Henry White Edgerton (1888–1970) and the Egyptologist William Franklin Edgerton (1893–1970). Though born in the West,…
EDGERTON, Eleanor Hill (née Eleanor Anna Hill). Scranton, PA 23.11.1905 — Brick Township, NJ 21.5.1995. Second wife (from 1952) of —> Franklin Edgerton (1885–1963). Earlier worked as secretary of L. Bloomfield at Yale. Collaborated with his husband in the Meghadūta translation. Survived her husband. Publications: Translated with Franklin Edgerton: Kalidasa, The…
EDGAR, James Huston. Harr, Victoria 19.7.1872 — Tatsienlu 23.3.1936. Rev. New Zealandian (born in Australia) Missionary in China, wrote studies on Chinese and Tibetan Ethnology and Archaeology. Son of Adam Edgar (1850–1942, born in Scotland) and Margaret Huston, grew up in Central Otago, New Zealand. Trained as missionary in Adelaide.…
EDELBERG, Johan Lorentz Lennart Fraas. Copenhagen 19.5.1915 — Ribe near Esbjerg 11.11.1981. Danish Biologist and Ethnologist, Specialist of Nuristan (Afghanistan). Son of chief engineer (overingeniør) Johannes Ferdinand Edelberg (1870–1949) and Johanne Fraas (1877–1951), grew up in Copenhagen. Studied briefly theology, but then made cand.mag 1943 in natural history and geography.…
ECKE, Emil-Wilhelm-Gustav. Bonn 13.6.1896 — Honolulu 18.12.1971. German Art Historian in China and U.S.A. Son of Gustav Ecke (1855–1920), Professor of Theology. From 1914 studies at Bonn, Berlin and Erlangen. Ph.D. 1922, on European art (French surrealism). In 1923 went to China, taught at several universities there: 1923-28 Amoy University,…
ECHAURI MARTÍNEZ, Eustaquio. Azcona, Navarra 20.9.1873 — Madrid 8.1.1953. Spanish Classical Philologist and Philosopher. Studied at seminary of Pamplona, but did not enter church service. Instead, worked as journalist and studied Greek and Latin in Rome and Madrid (lic. 1916). From 1920 Professor of Latin language and literature at Barcelona…
EATON, Adoniram Judson. Granville Centre, co. Annapolis, Nova Scotia 16.10.1850 — Knowlton, Quebec 1.8.1929. Canadian Indologist and Classical Scholar. Son of Thomas Woodworth Eaton (1803–1878) and Mary Ann Withers. Studies at Acadia University (B.A. 1873, M.A. 1877), Harvard (B.A. 1876) and Yale. In 1877-79 Headmaster of Amherst Academy, Mass., then…