CARDOSO Filho, Joaquim Lúcio. Curvelo, Minas Gerais 13.8.1913 — Rio de Janeiro 22.9.1968. Brazilian Author. Born in a prominent, but impoverished family, son of the elder J. L. Cardoso and Maria Wenceslina de Sarza. Educated in Belo Horizonte. Moved to Rio de Janeiro and worked in an insurance company, then…
CAPPIERI, Mario. 1894 — 1979. Italian Anthropologist. Professor of Anthropology in Rome. In 1953 Biometrician in Central Institute of Statistics of the Republic and Assistant at Scuola di Perfezionamento in Scienze Biologiche, Università di Roma. In 1955 Professor of Anthropology at Naples and Lecturer in Demography at Rome. Publications: “Le caste…
CANNIZZARO, Francesco Adolfo. Messina 13.7.1867 — Rome 24.4.1914. Italian Lawyer and autodidact Iranian Scholar. From 1887 studied law in Rome, also attended De Gubernatis’ Sanskrit classes until 1893. Degree in law 1894 University of Catania. Active in politics as a socialist, but also actively studied the Vīdēvdāt preparing almost complete…
CANNING, Hugh. 18?? — 23.12.1927. Irishman? M.A. 1910 Trinity College. From 1914 Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at Trinity College in Dublin (still there 1924). Publications: Nothing found. Sources: Death in the Belfast Gazette 28.9.1928, 1987; nomination in Dublin University Calendar online. No further information found (not in D.I.B.).
CAMPBELL, William Howard. Londonderry, Ireland 20.9.1859 — Bourdighera in Liguria, Italy 18.2.1910. Rev. British (Irish/Scottish) Presbyterian Missionary in India. Son of Thomas Callender Campbell (1835–1902), a businessman, and his Scottish wife, Agnes Callender (1834–1925). Educated in Derry. Studies at Edinburgh University (M.A. 1880, B.D. 1882), also learned Sanskrit. From 1884…
CAMPBELL, James Macnabb. Partick, Lanarkshire 4.10.1846 — Achnashie, Rosneath, Dumbartonshire 26.5.1903. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India, interested in Ethnography and History. Son of Rev. John Mcleod Campbell (1800–1872, D.D.) and Mary Campbell. Educated at Glasgow Academy and University (M.A. 1866), passed I.C.S. examination 1867. Went to Bombay in…
CAMPBELL, Andrew. Bolton, Lancashire 1845 — Pokharia 8.7.1919. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in Chota Nagpur, a Santali Scholar. Dr.div. Served the Santal Mission of Free Church of Scotland, from 1872, first at Giridh in Hazaribagh dt., from 1879 at Pokharia in Manbhoom. Also an Honorary Magistrate, and Member of the…
CAMERON, George Glenn. Washington, PA 30.7.1905 — Ann Arbor 14.9.1979. U.S. Archaeologist and Historian of ancient Iran. Professor in Ann Arbor. Son of William Byers Cameron (1873–1965) and Elizabeth Smith (1870–1950). Educated in 1923-25 at Washington and Jefferson College, 1925-27 at Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio (A.B. 1927), then studies…
CAIX DE SAINT-AYMOUR, Amédée, vicomte de. Senlis (Oise) 26.4.1843 — Paris 1.2.1921. French Archaeologist and Historian with early interest in Comparative Linguistics. After school in Senlis studied law and linguistic in Paris (É.P.H.É. & É.L.O.V.), later turned to archaeology. Son of Léon de Caix de Saint-Aymour (maire of Ognon) and Louise…
CADELL, Patrick Robert. Bhurtpore (Bharatpur), Bengal 6.5.1871 — Frilford Heath, Abingdon, Berkshire 22.11.1961 (when 90). Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India and Historian of Colonial India. Son of colonel Thomas Cadell (1835–1919) and Anna Dalmahoy (1837–1876). Educated at Edinburgh Academy (1881-82) and Haileybury, studies at Oxford (Balliol College). Joined…