DIVER, William. Chicago 20.7.1921 — Nantucket, MA 31.8.1995. U.S. Linguist. B.A. 1942 Lawrence College. In WW II served in U.S. Navy. M.A. Harvard, in English. Ph.D. Columbia University, in IE Linguistics. From 1965 taught at Columbia, finally as Professor, emeritus 1989. He is known as the founder of the Columbia…
DIMOCK, Edward Cameron, Jr. Roslindale, Boston 18.3.1929 — Centerville, Barnstable, MA 11.1.2001. U.S. Indologist, specialist of Bengali. Professor in Chicago. Son of E. C. Dimock, Sr. (1903–1989) and Gertrude Caffray. Educated at Roxbury, studies at Yale (B.A. 1950) and Harvard (S.T.B. 1953), ordained priest 1954. First studied architecture. Further S.T.M. 1954,…
DENTON, Lynn Teskey (née Lynn Shirley Teskey). Vernon, British Columbia 7.1.1949 — Hamilton, Ontario 1.3.1995. Canadian Anthropologist. Grew up in a farm in Hamilton, Ontario. Studies at McMaster University in Ontarion, B.A. 1972 in Religious Studies and M.A. 1973 in Anthropology. From 1973 further studies at Oxford (Somerville College), B.Litt. 1974, M.Litt.…
DAVIS, George Washington. Pittsburgh 7.12.1902 — 29.3.1960. U.S. Theologian. Son of Benjamin Ivor Davis, a steel mill union activist, and his wife Katherine Kaiser. Studies at University of Pittsburgh (B.A. 1925) and Rochester Theological Seminary (B.D. 1928, Th.M. 1929). Ordained Baptist priest 1928. Ph.D. 1932 Yale, on missiology. Until 1938 worked…
DAHMEN, Pierre. 18?? — 19??. S.J. Father. Catholic Missionary (probably Belgian) in Madurai (1910/31). Publications: “The Kunnuvans or Mannadis, a Hill-Tribe of the Palnis, South India”, Anthropos 5, 1910, 320-327. – Un jésuite brahme: Robert de Nobili, S.I., 1577-1656, missionnaire au Maduré. 10+103 p. Museum Lessianum 1. Bruges 1924; Robert de…
COSTA, Giulio. Imola 11.11.1901 — Mendal, Tura, Meghalaya 16/17.4.1970. S.D.B. Father. Italian Catholic Missionary in Assam. First a school teacher, but in 1924 decided to become missionary, After one year at missionary college in Ivrea came to Assam in 1925. Noviciate in Shillong, first vows in 1927, ordained priest 1931.…
COSERIU, Eugenio (Eugeniu Coşeriu). Mihăileni, Bălţi (now in Moldova) 27.7.1921 — Tübingen 7.9.2002. Romanian Comparative Linguist in Uruguay and Germany. High school in Bălti. Studies at Iaşi and from 1940 in Rome. Ph.D. 1944 Rome. In 1944-45 taught at Padova, 1945-49 at Milano (second Ph.D. there in philosophy). In 1950-58…
CORNYN, William Stewart. Vancouver 16.7.1906 — 15.3.1971. Canadian Burmese and Russian Scholar in the U.S.A. Son of John Cornyn (1868–1907) and Lillian M. Stewart (1878–1929). In 1922 moved to Los Angeles, worked as stock clerk, hall boy, and bookkeeper, 1924-28 insurance clerk in San Francisco. Studies at U.C.L.A., B.A. 1940,…
COOPER, Roland Edgar. Kingston-on-Thames, London 16.6.1890 — Southend-on-Sea, Essex 31.1.1962. British Botanist. Lost his parents in the age of four and was raised by his aunt Emma Smith (b. 1878) and her husband, botanist William Wright Smith (1875–1958) – but not immediately, they were too young for that. In 1907-10…
CONRAD, Dieter. 1932 — 2001. German Scholar of Indian Law. Dr.iur. 1963 Heidelberg (diss. not on South Asia). Senior Research Fellow at South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, was in Charge of its Department of Law from 1963 until his retirement in 1997. Publications: Diss. publ. Freiheitsrechte und Arbeitsverfassung. 184 p.…