BAER, Emil. Rifferswil in Loo, Canton Zürich 23.12.1884 — Dielsdorf, Canton Zürich 8.11.1945. Swiss Priest and Student of Indology. Son of the factory owner Theodor B. and Anna Leuthold. School at home village, in Affoltern and in Zürich, from 1906 studies at Zürich: theology, Arabic and Sanskrit, from 1906 classical…
CZERNY, Gerhard. Pettau (Ptuj in Slovenia) 12.4.1904 — 1936?. Austrian/Yugoslavian student of Comparative Religion. Born in Austria (now Slovenian territory), son of a Gerichtsofficial (d. 1908), then German-speaking Yugoslavian citizen. School at Pettau, Obergymnasium in Graz, matriculated 1923. Studied Theology (ev.) and Philosophy at Vienna 1923–25, 1925 Theology at Rostock,…
CYBORAN, Leon. Cracow 30.8.1928 — Warsaw 8.6.1977. Polish Indologist. Professor in Lublin. Born in Cracow, moved in 1946 to Wrocław. Studied philosophy at Wrocław in 1948-52. In the age of 26 lived at a monastery, but never gave vows. He had early become interested in Yoga, and studied then Indology…
CYBIKOV, Gombožab Cèbekovič (G. Tsöbikov, G. Tsèbègèj, born G. Montuev). Urdo-Aga, district Čita, Transbaikalia 20.4.1873 — Aginskoe, Burjatia 20.9.1930. Russian Buryat Scholar of Buddhism. Son of Cèbek Montujev, a literate and well-to-do Buryat. After gymnasium in Čita (one of the first four Buryat students admitted) studies of medicine at Tomsk,…
CUTTS, Elmer Henry. Silver Cliff, Color. 15.3.1908 — Boston, Mass. 4.4.1960. U.S. Historian of Colonial India. Son of Dr. Elmer Henry Cutts (1866–1917) and Alice Florence Tyler (1871–1969), twin brother of Earl Warren Cutts. Educated at University of Washington (B.A. 1929, M.A. 1932) in Seattle and at Harvard, where Ph.D.…
CUNY, Albert-Louis-Marie. Saint-Dié (Vosges) 16.5.1869 — Bordeaux 21.3.1947. French Linguist. Professor in Bordeaux. Son of Charles Cuny and Euphrasie Petit-demange. After Petit seminaire de Chatel & Autrey and Institut Catholique de Lille, studies at Sorbonne in Paris (under Meillet, also Henry and Lévi). Dr. ès lettres. In the 1890s tutor…
CUNNINGHAM, Alexander. Westminster 23.1.1814 — Cranley Mansions, South Kensington (London) 28.11.1893. Sir. British (Scots) Colonial Officer and Archaeologist in India. The great pioneer of Indian archaeology and the first Director-General of the A.S.I. General-major. Born in England of Scots parents, poet Allan Cunningham (1784-1842) and Jean Walker (1791–1864), brother of…
CUMONT, Franz Valéry Marie. Aalst 3.1.1868 — Brussels 20.8.1947. Belgian Scholar of Ancient Religions, History and Archaeology. Son of Florent Cumont (1830–1912), a textile factory owner, and Augustine Faider (1837–1890), educated in Brussels. Studies at Ghent, Ph.D. 1887. Then further studies at Bonn, Berlin, Vienna and Paris. From 1892 taught,…
CUMMINGS, Thomas Fulton. New Wilmington, PA 3.9.1863 — Albany, NY 6.2.1942. U.S. Presbyterian Missionary in the Puñjab. Son of Prof. James Beveridge Cummings (1827–1896) and Mary Ann Reid. After Westminster College studies at Union Theological Seminary 1886-87 and at Allegheny Theological Seminary 1887-89. Ordained priest 1889 and soon left to…
CUMMING, John Ghest. Houston and Killelan, Renfrewshire 29.12.1868 — London 9.3.1958 (when 89). Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India, Historian of Modern India. Son of Med.Dr. James Simpson C. and Alice Designe Ghest, educated at High School and University of Glasgow (M.A. 1888) and at Balliol College in Oxford,…