CHANDLER, John Scudder. Madurai, Tamil Nadu 12.4.1849 — Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu 19.6.1934. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Tamil scholar. Son of John Eddy Chandler (1817–1894), a missionary, and Charlotte Maria Hopkins (1821–1891). After Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven studies at Yale (B.A. 1870) and Yale Divinity School (B.D.). Priest ordination…
CHALMERS, Robert (1919 first baron of Chalmers of Northiam). Stoke Newington, London 18.8.1858 — Oxford 17.11.1938. Lord. British (Scottish) Civil Servant and Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Born in London in a Scottish family, son of John Chalmers and Julia Mackay. Educated at City of London School (under E. Abbott). From 1877…
CASARTELLI, Louis Charles. Manchester 14.11.1852 — Salford near Manchester 18.1.1925. Right Rev. British (of Italian origin) Iranian Scholar and Catholic Bishop. Son of an Italian exile from Como, North Italy, Giovanni Luigi / Joseph Louis Casartelli (1823–1900), working as optician in Manchester, and Jane Henrietta Ronchetti, educated at Salford Catholic…
CASAL, Jean-Marie. Troyes 30.6.1905 — Antibes 12.12.1977. French Archaeologist. Husband of —> Geneviève Casal (née Bell, 1909–2002). After studies of Law he started a commercial career, but captivity during the WW II changed his life. After the war he studied at Louvre under Ph. Stern, and met there his future…
CARUS, Paul Gottfried Christian. Ilsenburg am Harz 18.7.1852 — La Salle, Ill. 11.2.1919. German Philosopher and Scholar of Comparative Religion in the U.S.A. Son of a Lutheran pastor, Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Carus (1819–1889), and Laura Krueger (1829–1897). School in Posen and Stettin (where Grassmann was his teacher), studied philosophy, classics…
CARPENTER, Joseph Estlin. Ripley, Guildford Borough, Surrey 5.10.1844 — Oxford 2.6.1927. Rev. British Indologist (Pāli scholar), Unitarian Theologian and Scholar of Religion. Son of William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), a well-known biologist and unitarian, and Louisa Powell, nephew of —> Mary Carpenter (1807–1877). Educated at University College School in London, then…
CÀRPANI, Enrico Gerardo. 1912 — 1963. Italian Scholar of Religion. In Bologna. Ph.D. In 1946-47 he was campaigning on behalf of the Roerich Pact. In 1956 apparently still in Bologna. According to Franci his works are rather superficial and of introductory type. He was “indologo di limitata originalità, ma persona…
CAROE, Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse. Chelsea, London 15.11.1892 — Steyning (Worthing?), Sussex 29.11.1981. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Son of architect William Douglas Caroe and Grace Desborough Rendall, educated at Winchester College. From 1911 studied classics at Magdalen College, Oxford. M.A. In 1914-19 captain 4th Bn. The Queen’s Regiment in…
CARNOY, Albert Joseph. Louvain (Leuven) 7.11.1878 — Louvain 12.1.1961. Belgian Linguist. Professor in Louvain. Son of Joseph Antoine Carnoy (1841–1906), a mathematician and Professor of Philosophy at Louvain. From 1896 studied at Louvain Romance and classical philology, wrote dr. dissertations in both (in 1901 and 1902). Some time also in…
CARL, Jean Eugène. Saint-Dié-des-Vosges 23.9.1900 — London 3.4.1941. French Architect and Archeologist. Son of Jules Antoine Carl (1863–1944) and Zénéide Riabon. Diplom of architect 1928. He was in Maison Franco-Japonais in Tokyo, then Hackin’s assistant in the French excavations in Afghanistan in 1928-40, participating in the most part of his projects…