AULOVA, Rena Aronovna (née Sandova). Samarkand 30.1.1927 — Tashkent ?.10.1997. Uzbekistanian Hindi Teacher. Daughter of an official, Aron Ribievič Sandov. In 1949 she was the first to graduate from Taškent in Oriental Studies. Kand. ped. nauk 1973. Docent 1979, teaching at Dept. of Indian Philology, Oriental Faculty, Taškent. Married journalist…
ATKINS, Samuel De Coster. Madison, N.J. 25.10.1910 — Pomona, Calif. 20.3.2002. U.S. Indologist and IE Scholar. Professor at Princeton University. Son of Oscar A. Atkins. After Morristown High School studies at Princeton: A.B. 1931, A.M. 1932, Ph.D. 1935. In 1935-37 Assistant at Baylor, then at Princeton: Instructor in Classics and…
ASMUSSEN, Jes Peter. Aabenraa, North Slesvig 2.11.1928 — Copenhagen 5.8.2002. Danish Iranian Scholar, Specialist of Judeo-Persian Literature. Son of engineer Asmus Heinrich Asmussen (1894–1959) and Eline Petersen (888–1960). Matriculated from Aabenraa in 1948, then studied theology at Copenhagen University: Cand.Theol. 1954. After amy service as military chaplain in Greenland (learned…
ARVON, Henri (né Heinz Aptekmann). Bayreuth 9.3.1914 — Antony (Haut-de-Seine) 2.12.1992. French (born German Jew) Philosopher. Matriculated 1933 from Bayreuth, but could not begin studies in Nazi Germany. He moved to France with his fiancée and began studies at Strasbourg. In 1937 to military service and obtained French citizenship. After army…
ARBUTHNOT, Alexander John. Killaloe, Clare county, Ireland (or Farmhill, Mayo county) 11.10.1822 — 10.6.1907. Sir. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Alexander Arbuthnot (1768–1828), the Anglican Bishop of Killaloe, and Margaret Phoebe Bingham. Educated at Rugby and Haileybury. Joined I.C.S. 1842, served in Madras. As Director of Public…
ANATRIELLO, Pasquale. 1912 — 1986. Father. Italian Missionary of P.I.M.E. (Pontificio Istituto Missionari Estere) and Burmese Scholar. Ph.D. Rome 1969. In 1951-60 parish priest of Loikaw in Karen area. Then at Pontificio Istituto Missioni Estere Trentola Ducenta in Caserta. Publications: “‘Vipassana’ un metodo di meditazione buddista”, Rivista di ascetica e…
AITKEN, Edward Hamilton. Satara, Maharashtra 16.8.1851 — Edinburgh 11.4.1909. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. James Aitken, a missionary of Free Church of Scotland, educated in Bombay by his father. Studies at Bombay University, B.A. and M.A. In 1870-76 Reader in Latin at Deccan College. Then served…
ABAEV, Vasilij Ivanovič (Oss. Vaso Abajty). Kobi, rajon Kazbeg, Georgia 15(28).12.1900 — Moscow 18.3.2001. Russian Iranian and Caucasian Scholar, himself of Ossetian Origin. Born in a village, in 1910-18 school in Tbilisi, then elementary school teacher in Kobi. From 1922 studied at the Oriental Faculty in St.Petersburg, graduated 1925 in…
ZISTL, Karl Georg. Hengersberg, Bavaria 1885 — Friedrichshafen 1953. German Librarian. Studied Indology (E. Kuhn) and Musicology at Munich, but in 1911 began as wissenschaftlicher Hilfsarbeiter in the Munich university library. Military service in WW I, seriously wounded. Returned to library in 1919. Catalogued Oriental and Slavic collections. Retired 1952. Married…
ZINKGRÄF, Willy. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 23.10.1903 — 19??. German Teacher and former Student of Indology. Son of Friedrich Zinkgräf and Elisabeth Beinder. Gymnasium in Mannheim. Student of Walleser at Heidelberg as early as 1922, also studied Germanistics. In the 1930s worked at Walleser’s institute. Ph.D. 1939 Heidelberg. In 1940 living…