SCHELLER, Meinrad. Zürich 17.5.1921 — 24.4.1991. Swiss Sanskrit and IE Scholar. Professor in Zürich. Grew up in Zürich. Studies from 1940 at Zürich under M. Leumann, Pokorny and Risch, also in Paris. Ph.D. 1948 (under Leumann). Further studies 1949-51 in Paris, some time also at Prague. In 1951-54 worked for…
SCHÄFFER, Philipp Nikolai Woldemar. Königsberg 16.11.1894 — Berlin-Plötzensee 16.5.1943. German Student of Indology, then Sinologist, Communist 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…
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. Lost early his mother and was raised by his uncle, journalist Pietro Scabelloni. Pupil of Evola when 20, soon also of Steiner. From 1932 worked as…
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 (1835–1921), a Baptist grocer and draper, and Sarah Clarke. B.A., Ph.D. Worked as schoolteacher in London. Arrived in India in 1891. Together with his friend —>…
SÃO MIGUEL, Gaspar de. 1595? — 1647. Father. Born in Portugal. Franciscan priest and missionary in India. Publications: Manuscript works: Arte da lingoa Canarim (lost?); Dictionarium et ars lingua Canarinae; Vocabulario da Lingua Portugues e Canari. – Sintaxis copiosissima na lingoa Bramana e Pollida: a syntax of standard Konkani. 154…
SANTA RITA E SOUSA, José de. 1865 — 1940. Father 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. Vernã, Salsete 4.7.1887 — Lisbon ?.9.1966. Portuguese (probably Goanese) Physician and Author. After school in Panaji studied at Escola Médica de Nova Goa, graduated 1910. Futher medical studies in Lisbon, M.D. 1919. Worked as physician and Professor of Medicine in Goa. Made Tagore known in…
SANTA ANNA (Santana), Francisco Xavier de (Francesco Saverio di Sant’ Anna, lay Raffaello Pescetto). Celle Ligure near Savona 25.4.1771 — Bombay 7.12.1844. Father. O.C.D. Italian Carmelite Missionary and Konkani Scholar in India. Joined the order in 1790. Finally 1831 titular Archbishop of Sardes and in 1831-44 Apostolic Vicar in Verapoly…
SANGERMANO, Vincentius (Vincenzo). Arpino, Lazio 22.4.1758 — Arpino (or Leghorn?) 28.7.1819. Father. Italian Barnabite Missionary in Burma, a Scholar of Pāli and Burmese. Became novice in 1774. Sent to Burma in 1782. After brief stay in Ava worked long time in Rangoon as Principal of a missionary school. He knew…