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 Anna 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.…
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, PA 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 (diss. on missiology). Until…
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 Bălţi. Studies at Iaşi and from 1940 at Sapienza in Rome. Ph.D. 1944 Rome. In 1944-45 taught at Padova, 1945-49 at Milano (second Ph.D. there in philosophy).…
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, then back to Los Angeles.…
COOPER, Roland Edgar. Kingston-on-Thames, London 16.6.1890 — Southend-on-Sea, Essex 31.1.1962. British Botanist. Son of Harry Conrad Cooper, an auctioneer who after divorce (November 1890) moved to Australia and died there 1912, and Jessie Huntsman (d. 1893). Lost early his parents and from 1905 was raised by his aunt Emma Smith…
CONRAD, Dieter (Dietrich). 1932 — 1.6.2001. 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. Married, at least one son. Publications: Diss.…
CLEMEN, Carl Christian. Sommerfeld bei Leipzig 30.3.1865 — Bonn 8.7.1940. German Protestant Theologian and Historian of Religion (especially Iranian). Professor in Bonn. Son of Oberkirchenrat Christian August Julius Clemen (1838–1920) and Helene Voigt, educated at Fürstenschule in Grimma. Studies of theology at Leipzig, Tübingen, Halle and Berlin. PD 1892 Halle. From…