ADICEAM, Marguerite E. (née Prost). Bourg 22.7.1911 — Pondicherry 21.10.1989. Mme. French Indologist. Studied classics at Lyon, later also Sanskrit. In 1946-54 teacher at French college in Pondicherry. Back in France student of Filliozat. In 1966-71 scientific member of E.F.E.O. in Pondicherry, then retired. Specialist of Hindu religion, especially of…
ABS, Josef Maria. Öspel, Saarland 20.1.1889 — 19??. German Catholic Priest, Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Son of Friedrich Abs and Maria Kessler. From 1897 member of the Capuchin order and attended its school in Tyrol. Then missionary in India, in 1914 appointed to a Professorship in Calcutta, but soon…
ABRAMJAN (Abramian), Ruben Tadesovič. Gnišik, Turkish Armenia 9.(21.)2.1881 — 26.10.1951. Armenian Iranian and Armenian Scholar. Son of a civil servant. In 1911 graduated from Oriental Faculty in St. Petersburg. Dr. philol. nauk 1935. In 1935-46 he taught at Tehran University, in 1946-51 naučnyj sotrudnik at Linguistic Institute of Armenian Academy…
ABEGG, Emil. Küsnacht near Zürich 11.1.1885 — Zürich 12.2.1962. Swiss Indologist. Professor in Zürich. Son of merchant Emil Abegg (d. 1894) and Fanny Guggenbühl, school and teacher’s college in Küsnacht. Learned Sanskrit first by himself, then from 1904 studied Germanistics, psychology, Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit (under Kaegi) at Zürich University.…
ABBOTT, Justin Edwards. Portsmouth, NH 25.12.1853 — Summit, NJ 19.6. or 16.9.1932. Rev. U.S. Presbyterian Missionary and Indologist (Marathi Scholar). B.A. Son of missionary parents, Rev. Amos Abbott and Anstice Wilson, he came with them in 1857 to Rahuri (Ahmednagar dt.) and grew up in Maharashtra. Studies in the U.S.A.,…
AARNE, Antti Amathus (born Limnell). Pori 5.12.1867 — Helsinki 5.2.1925. Finnish Folklorist. Son of master smith Johan Limnell and Maria Ahlqvist, lost early his father and as schoolboy also his mother. Matriculated from Porin lyseo 1889. Studies at Helsinki University, student of Kaarle Krohn. M.A. 1893. In 1895-98 in Moscow…
AALTO, Pentti. Pori 22.7.1917 — Helsinki 30.11.1998. Finnish Classical Scholar, Linguist, Altaist and Indologist. Son of shop assistant Martti Johannes Aalto and Martta Elisabeth Lindroos. Matriculation from Porin lyseo in 1935, then studies of comparative, oriental and classical philology at Helsinki University: M.A. 1939, Lic. Phil. 1949, Ph.D. 1949. During…
AA, Jean Baptiste van der. Brussels 11.6.1843 — 1900?. S.J. Flemish Jesuit Father, Missionary in Sri Lanka. Educated at Collège Saint-Michel, entered S.J. when 17. Ordained priest in 1875, taught philosophy at Louvain (Leuven). In 1895 he went to Sri Lanka and worked as teacher at the Papal Seminarium in…