SEBEOK, Thomas Albert (“Tom”, Hungarian Tamás Sebők). Budapest 9.11.1920 — Bloomington, Indiana 21.12.2001. U.S. (born Hungarian) Linguist and Semiotician. Son of Dezső Sebők and Vera Perlmann. After school in Budapest in 1936 father sent him to Cambridge (Magdalen College) to learn English, 1937 moved to the U.S.A., naturalized 1944. B.A.…
SCHWARZ, Franz Ferdinand. Graz 26.12.1934 — Graz 8.5.2001. Austrian Classical Scholar interested in Indology. Professor in Graz. Son of a court official. Studied at Graz Classical Philology, Comparative Linguistics and Indology (under Brandenstein). Ph.D. 1961. Worked as schoolteacher of Latin at a gymnasium in Graz. Further studies in 1971-72 at…
SCHMIDT, Emil Ludwig. Obereichstätt, Upper Bavaria 7.4.1837 — Jena 22.10.1906. German Ethnologist. Son of engineer Johann Georg Schmidt (1804–1876) and Katharina Mariane Jakobine Metzler. From 1857 studied medicine at Jena, Leipzig and Bonn. M.D. 1861 Berlin. Worked as physician in Essen. Interested in anthropology he visited North America (1869-70 & 1876)…
SCHLERATH, Holger Bernfried. Leipzig 15.5.1924 — Berlin 30.5.2003 (or 12.12.?). German Indo-Iranian Scholar. The only child of literary editor Dr. Franz Schlerath and Karoline Suter, in 1928 the family moved to Frankfurt. Matriculated 1943 from Frankfurt, briefly student at Frankfurt, in 1944-45 in the army as wireless operator (briefly war…
SCHLEGEL, Gustaaf. Oegstgeest near Leiden 30.9.1840 — Leiden 15.10.1903. Dutch Sinologist. Son of museum director Hermann Schlegel (1804–1884), a German (Saxonian) zoologist who had moved to the Netherlands in 1827, and Cornelia Buddingh. Gymnasium in Leiden. After early studies of Chinese at home he went in 1857 to China in…
SCHLAGINHAUFEN, Otto. St.Gallen 8.11.1879 — Kilchberg, Canton Zürich 14.11.1973. Swiss Anthropologist and Eugenicist. Son of merchant Daniel Otto Schlaginhaufen and Emma Baumann, gymnasium in Bern. In 1899-1904 studied anthropology at Zürich. Ph.D. 1905. In 1901-05 Assistant at Zürich, 1905-06 at Rudolf-Virchow-Sammlung in Berlin. In 1906-11 worked as anthropologist in Dresden…
SCHIMMEL, Annemarie Brigitte. Erfurt 7.4.1922 — Bonn 26.1.2003. German Oriental Scholar in the U.S.A., a Specialist of Islamic South Asia. Professor in Bonn and Harvard. Daughter of post official Paul Schimmel (1889–1945) and Anna Ulfers, educated in Erfurt. From 1939 studies at Berlin (i.al. under H. H. Schaeder). Ph.D. as…
SCHÄFER, Ernst. Köln 14.3.1910 — Bad Bevensen, Niedersachsen 21.7.1992.German Zoologist and Explorer. Son of Albert Schäfer (1881–1971), an industrialist and politician, and Margarete Imdahl. Matriculated 1928 from Mannheim, then studied zoology, botany and geology at Göttingen and from 1923 at Berlin, Ph.D. 1938. In 1930-31 visited China, 1934-36 Tibetan borderlands.…
SARASIN, Paul Benedict. Basel 11.12.1856 — Basel 7.4.1929. Swiss Naturalist and Ethnologist. Son of politician Karl Sarasin (1815–1886) and Elisabeth Sauvain (1829–1918), a wealthy family, second cousin of —> Fritz Sarasin (1859–1942), with whom he then had a lifelong friendship. School and medical studies in Basel. Together with his cousin he…
SARASIN, Fritz (Karl Friedrich). Basel 3.12.1859 — Lugano 23.3.1942.Swiss Naturalist. Son of cotton factory owner and politician Felix Sarasin (1797–1862) and Rosalia Brunner (1826–1908), second cousin of —> Paul Sarasin (1856–1929), with whom he then had a lifelong friendship. Studied natural sciences at Geneva and Basel, where he met his cousin.…