SCHÄFFER, Philipp. Königsberg 16.11.1894 — Berlin-Plötzensee 16.5.1943. German Student of Indology, then Sinologist and Activist against Nazism. Son of an officer, grew up in St.Petersburg. Began studies there 1913 (Sanskrit), but 1914 the family was banished, as enemies, to Archangelsk. In 1918 they returned to St.Petersburg, but soon decided to…
SCALIGERO, Massimo (nom-de-plume of Antonio Massimo Sgabelloni). Veroli, Lazio 17.9.1906 — Rome 26.1.1980. Italian Esoterist (Follower of Evola) and Steinerian Anthroposophist, also an Antisemitist. Journalist in Rome, no scholar. Publications: As a friend of Tucci he was the editor of the E & W in 1970-78 and wrote some articles…
SCALABRINO BORSANI, Giuseppina (or G. Borsani Scalabrino). Milano 9.5.1910 — 22.2.1991. Italian Indologist. Professor in Milano. Studied Sanskrit at Catholic University of Milano under A. Ballini, graduated in 1933. Soon Assistant, then Docent, and from 1954 the first woman in Italy with a Sanskrit chair, at Catholic University of Milano,…
SAVIDGE, Frederick William (“Sap Upa”). Stretham near Ely, Cambridgeshire 3.5.1862 — London 26/28.9.1936. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in North-East India. Son of Briggs Savidge, a grocer and draper. B.A., Ph.D. Worked as schoolteacher in London. Arrived in India in 1891. Together with his friend J. H. Lorrain he became the…
SANTA RITA E SOUSA, José de. 1865 — 1940 Apparently an Indian from Konkan, a Catholic Priest and Canon. Professor of Konkani at Esc. Superior Colonial in Lisbon from 1921 and still in the 1930s. Publications: A Civilisação Indo-Árica. 1919. – Elementos gramaticais da língua concani. 181 p. Lisbon 1929. –…
SANTANA RODRIGUES, António Aleixo de. Salsete 1887 — Lisbon 1966. Portuguese (probably Goanese) Physician and Author. Medical studies at Lisbon, worked as physician and Professor of Medicine in Goa. Made Tagore known in Portugal. Publications: The Indian National Movement. 30 p. Lisbon 1923. – A Índia contemporanea. 6+206 p. Lisbon…
SAMPSON, John. Schull, County Cork 25.2.1862 — West Kirkby, Cheshire 9.11.1931. British (Irish) Librarian and Gipsy Scholar. Son of James Sampson, a chemist and mining engineer from Cornwall, and Sarah Anne MacDermott. His father lost all his money in a bank failure 1871 and the family moved to Liverpool, when…
SALVIONI, Carlo. Bellinzona 3.3.1858— Milano 20.10.1920. Swiss Linguist in Italy. Professor in Milano. Son of Carlo Salvioni, a printer and book-dealer, and Martina Borsa. Educated in Lugano (knew there M. Bakunin). Studies at Basel, soon changed medicine into linguistics and in 1878 went to Leipzig. Ph.D. 1883 there under Brugmann.…
SAGI, Alexander. Kispet (now Budapest XIX) 16.5.1929 — Grenzach, dt. Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg 22.7.1993. Hungarian Catholic Priest and Psychologist in Austria and Germany. Son of Stefan Sagi, a mechanician, and Valerie Frank, grew up in deeply religious home. In 1947-52 studies of theology at Vienna. Theol.Dr. (Cath.) 1953 Vienna. Ordained priest.…
SAFAREWICZ, Jan. Daugavpils (Latvia) 8.2.1904 — Cracow 9.4.1992. Polish IE Linguist. Professor at Krakow. Son of tax official, lost early his parentsa and grew up with his uncle, Alexander S., bacteriologist and Professor of Medicine at Wilno (Vilnius), studied there linguistics and classics. Ph.D. 1927 in Indo-European Linguistics. Further studies…