CODRINGTON, Kenneth de Burgh. Murree, Punjab 5.6.1899 — Appledore, Devon 1.1.1986. British Archaeologist and Art Historian of India. Son of Lieutenant (then Major-General) Harry de Burgh Codrington (1866–1939) of Indian army and Helen Maud Vaughan (1870–1915), grew up in the North-West Frontier. Educated at Sherborne School and Cadet College, Wellington. Studies…
CODRINGTON, Humphrey William. Hambleden, Buckinghamshire 25.9.1879 — Kensington, London 7.11.1942. British Civil Servant and Scholar of Sri Lankan History and Ethnography. Son of the rear-admiral William Codrington (1832–1888) and Mary Auber Leach (1855–1930), nephew of —> Oliver Codrington (1837–1921). Educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford (B.A.). In 1903…
COCK, Jan Kornelis de. Vierhuizen, Ulrum, Groningen 23.10.1867 (or 1870?) — Davos, Switzerland 6.4.1941. Dutch Indologist. Son of an industrialist, Jan Klaassens de Cock (1840–1909), and Frouke Boon. After gymnasium in Groningen studied Dutch at Amsterdam, soon also Sanskrit under Uhlenbeck. Ph.D. 1899 Amsterdam. As Indology was then not an…
CLOSS, Alois. Neumarkt in Steiermark 27.10.1893 — Graz 10.1.1984. Austrian Iranian Scholar. Librarian in Graz. Son of Alois Closs, a court official, and Rosa Halm, elder brother of the Germanist August Closs (1898–1990). Educated in Graz, 1911-15 studies of theology at Graz (Dr.theol.), ordained priest 1916. In 1916-21 minister in…
CLEMENS, ?. 18?? — 191?. German Iranian Scholar specializing in Avesta. Died young in the WW I. Publications: Perhaps nothing. Sources: ZDMG?
CLAYTON, Albert Charles. St.Helens, Merseyside 1869 — 1956. Rev. British Methodist Missionary in South India, a Tamil Scholar. Educated in Hull and Liverpool, studies at University College, London. In 1934 apparently still in Madras, in 1941 living in Bournemouth, England. Also knew Telugu. Probably married Lydia Beckett (b. 1869), three…
CLAWITER, Walter. 1923 — 23.11.1970. German Indologist. Ph.D. Göttingen 1958 (?) under Waldschmidt. Edited Turfan texts and assisted the manuscript catalogue and dictionary of the Turfan fragments in Göttingen in the 1960s. He died of hypertension before he had completed his habilitation and his mother Maria Clawiter (1896–1980) established Walter-Clawiter-Preis…
CLAUSON, Gerard Leslie Makins. Valletta, Malta 28.4.1891 — Chelsea, London 1.5.1974 (or 1973?). Sir. British Linguist and Central Asian (especially Turkish) scholar, but began with Pāli studies. The eldest son of Sir John Eugene Clauson (1866–1918), officer and colonial administrator, and Mary Elizabeth Makins (1862–1949). Educated at Eton, studies at…
CLARK, Walter Eugene. Digby, Nova Scotia 8.9.1881 — Vista, Calif. 30.9.1960. U.S. Indologist. Professor at Harvard. Born in Canada, but the family moved to the U.S.A. in 1883. Son of Hallet Sylvester Clark (1863–1928), a ship’s cabinetmaker, and Hannah Eliza Thomas. Studies at Harvard (A.B. 1903, A.M. 1904, Ph.D. 1906),…
CLARK, Thomas Welbourne. Ilkeston, Derbyshire 2.1.1904 — 22.12.1969. British Indologist, a Specialist of Bengali and NIA Linguistics. School in Derbyshire, from 1921 studies of English and Latin at University College of Nottingham (then still affiliated to London University). Graduated there, then one year at Cambridge. In 1925 joined Bengal Educational…