SULEJKIN, Dmitrij Aleksandrovič

SULEJKIN, Dmitrij Aleksandrovič. 1900 — 1948. Russian Indologist. Studies at Leningrad (under Ščerbatskoj), then employed as naučnyj sotrudnik at the Oriental Institute of the Soviet Academy of Science in Leningrad. He was a Sanskrit scholar interested in state, society and history of ancient India. Publications: A few articles Sources: Briefly…

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SULPIZI, Giuseppe

SULPIZI, Giuseppe. Città della Pieve, Perugia 17.10.1875 — 19??. Italian Scholar. Professor at Florence (Istituto Superiore di Firenze). Still active in 1911. Sources: Translated: L’idillio di Tapati e Samvarana à un episodio leggiadrissimo del Mahábhárata. 7+10 p. Florence 1898. Sources: Rivista Bibliografica Italiana 4, 1899, 64.

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SUMMER, Mary

SUMMER, Mary (nom-de-plume, really Marie [or Louise-Charlotte] Foucaux, née Filon). 1842 — 1902. French Indological Author. Daughter of Auguste Filon (1800–1875), a historian, and Marie Théodorine Sandrie-des-Fosses, wife of —> Ph. Ed. Foucaux (1811–1894). Married in 1862 (one source claims 1859), lived with her husband in Paris. Publications: Les religieuses…

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SUMMERS, Gertrude M.

SUMMERS, Gertrude M., Miss. 1??? — 19??. Miss. British. Lecturer in Bengali at S.O.A.S. in London in the end of the 1930s and still 1948. Publications: Nothing found. Sources: Mentioned in S.O.A.S. reports.

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SUTHERLAND, J. C. Colebrooke

SUTHERLAND, James Charles Colebrooke. Walcot, Somerset 6.11.1792 — Calcutta 1.2.1844. British Lawyer in India. Son of Andrew Sutherland (d. 1795), an officer, and Louisa Colebrooke, sister of —> H. T. Colebrooke, grew up in the house of his uncle James Edward Colebrooke. Member of I.C.S. and a lawyer, from 1807 in…

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SYKES, William Henry

SYKES, William Henry. near Bradford, Yorkshire 25.1.1790 — Kensington, London 16.6.1872. British Colonial Officer in India, with wide scholarly interests. Colonel. Son of Samuel Sykes, an estate owner. Entered as cadet in 1803, Lieutenant in Bombay Army 1805, participated in the siege of Bharatpur. Learned soon Hindī and Marāṭhī and…

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STORCK, Wilhelm

STORCK, Friedrich Wilhelm Paul. Letmathe, Kr. Iserlohn, Westfalen 5.7. 1829 — Münster 16.7.1905. German Linguist (German & Romance) interested in Pāli. Son of a teacher, educated in Arnsberg. From 1850 studies of Germanics at Munich, Münster, Bonn and Berlin. In Berlin also student of Bopp and Weber. Ph.D. 1858 Berlin.…

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STEINGASS, Franz Joseph (Francis Joseph)

STEINGASS, Franz Joseph (Francis Joseph). Frankfurt/Main 16.3.1825 — ibid. ?.1.1903. German Oriental (Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit) Scholar in the U.K. Born in a Jewish family, studies at Munich. Ph.D. 1846 Munich. Around 1870 moved to England. Professor of Modern Languages at Wakefield Grammar School in Birmingham for five years, then…

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SCHOLBERG, Henry Caesar

SCHOLBERG, Henry Caesar. Rushford, Minnesota 11.10.1879 — Daytona Beach, Florida 2.10.1969. Rev. U.S. Methodist Missionary and Hindi Scholar. Born in a modest family of Norwegian immigrants, son of Ole Peter Scholberg and Maren Christine Johnsen. Studies at Methodist Hamline University in St.Paul. Arrived with his wife in India in 1906,…

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STEINKE, Martin (Tao Chuen)

STEINKE, Martin (1933 Tao Chuen / Tao Chün / Dao Jun Zhi Ming). Potsdam 23.1.1882 — Igersheim, Main-Tauber 29.8.1966. German Bauddha. Studied economics and founded his own bank which he directed until 1933. Became early interested in Buddhism and gradually moved from Theravāda to Mahāyāna. In 1922 founded Gemeinde um…

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