STUTTERHEIM, Willem Frederik

STUTTERHEIM, Willem Frederik. Rotterdam 27.9.1892 — Batavia (Jakarta) 10.9.1942. Dutch Scholar of Indonesian Philology and Archaeology. Son of Christiaan Lodewijk Willem Stutterheim (1847–1917) and Jacoba Sack. After school in Rotterdam studied 1911-14 Dutch at Utrecht. In 1914-18 military service. After war studies at Leiden. Ph.D. there 1924 under Krom. In…

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STURSBERG, Otto

STURSBERG, Otto. 1871 — 19??. German Missionary in India. Ph.D. 1907 Berlin. Priest and missionary in Berhampore, India, in 1896-1938. Mentioned as living in 1943. Married 1897 Luise Alma Hummel (1877–1939), six children. Publications: Diss. Das Caitanyacaritāmṛta des Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja. Eine altbengalische Lebens­geshichte Caitanyas. 54 p. B. 1907. – 100 years in Berhampore.…

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STUBBS, Francis William

STUBBS, Francis William. Dundalk, Ireland 1828 — Cork 2.8.1911. British (Irish?) Colonial Officer in India. After Addiscombe joined E.I.C.’s army in 1847, served in Bengal Horse Artillery until 1878. Major, 1859 in Attock, in 1895 Major-General of Royal Artillery. Member of A.S.B. from 1859. Married Caroline Euphemia Forbes (1845–1901), six…

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STRUTT, Edward

STRUTT, Edward. Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire 1853 — St.Columb, Newquay, Cornwall 1911. Rev. British Wesleyan Missionary in Sri Lanka. Son of master bootmaker George Strutt (1807–1899) and Elizabeth Housley, a pious Wesleyan family. Working in Ceylon at Jaffna (1876-78), Kalmunai (1878), Trincomalee (1879-81) and Colombo (1881-87) concentrating on Tamils. In 1887…

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STEPHENS, H. Morse

STEPHENS, Henry Morse. Edinburgh 3.10.1857 — Berkeley 16.4.1919. British Historian in the U.S.A. Professor in Berkeley. Son of John Edward Stephens, of Indian army, and Emma Morris. Educated from 1871 at Haileybury College, studies from 1877 at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1880, M.A. 1892). Lecturer in Indian History at Cambridge, 1892-94.…

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STEPHENS, Celeus Leon

STEPHENS, Celeus Leon. Westminster 11.1.1847 — Bogn, Bengal 21.12.1919. Rev. British Calvinist Missionary in India. Son of George Stephens and Mary Franklin Arnold, grew up in Carmarthen (Wales). Educated at Trevecca College in Pembroke. Ordained priest 1870. Pastor in Pembrokeshire 1870-72 and London 1872-78. Member of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists’…

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STEEL, Flora Annie

STEEL, Flora Annie (née Fl. A. Webster). Sudbury, Middlesex 2.4.1847 — Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire 12.4.1929. Mrs. British Author, spent 22 years in India. Daughter of George Webster and Isabella MacCallum. In 1867 married Henry William Steel (1840–1923) of I.C.S. and left for India. They lived mainly in the Punjab until 1889, then…

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STAUDE, Wilhelm

STAUDE, Wilhelm. Vienna 1904 — Vienna ?.3.1977. Austrian Art Historian and Anthropologist in France. Son of a merchant, lost very early his father. Gymnasium in Vienna, matriculated 1923. Studies of Oriental Art History at Vienna, Leipzig and Munich. Ph.D. 1935 Munich. From 1932 stayed mainly in Paris. During the war…

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STAMM, Friedrich

STAMM, Friedrich. Schwarzenraben, Kr. Lippstadt 22.8.1889 — 19??. German Student of IE Linguistics. Ph.D. 1919 Münster. Worked in Münster University Library, from 1921 in Göttingen Uni­versity Library. Publications: Diss. Die denominativen Verben primären Charakters in den indogermanischen Sprachen. 3+80 p. Münster 1919. Sources: Birth and work places in Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 1919, 290…

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SPRUNG, Mervyn

SPRUNG,  George Mervyn Carter (also known as George M. C. Sprung). Winnipeg 1913 — Peterborough, Ontario 5.1.2000. Canadian Buddhist Scholar. Son of Benjamin Franklin Sprung (1871–1937) and Elizabeth Ann Carter. Studies at Manitoba (B.A.), Toronto (M.A.) and Berlin (Ph.D. 1939). Back in Canada volunteered in army and, speaking fluent German, was…

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