STROHAL, Emil Ernst. Klagenfurt 29.7.1874 — Leipzig 7.3.1902. Austrian Student of Indology. The eldest son of Emil Strohal (1844–1914), a legal scholar. Roman Catholic. Gymnasium in Graz. In 1893-94 studied law at Graz, then switched to Indology (Kirste), soon at Göttingen (Kielhorn) and 1895-96 at Vienna (Bühler). A serious illness…
STRONG, Sandford Arthur. Kensington, London 10.4.1863 — London 18.1.1904. British Semitic and Pāli Scholar, also an Art Historian. Son of Thomas Banks Strong, of the War Office, and Anna Lawson. After St.Paul’s school in London worked as clerk at Lloyd’s and attended classes at King’s College in London. From 1881…
STRONG, Dawsonne Melanchthon. Ross, Herefordshire 11.11.1841 — ?.7.1903. British Colonial Officer interested in Buddhism. Son of Clement Dawsonne Strong (1805–1898) and Charlotte Symonds. Served in Bengal Infantry, Major 1879, finally Major-General. Retired, in 1899 living in Edinburgh. Married 1870 Mary Louisa Smith (1848–1915), five sons and three daughters. Publications: Translated…
STRZYGOWSKI, Josef. Biala, Austrian Silesia (now Bielsko-Biała in Poland) 7.3.1862 — Vienna 2.1.1941. Austrian Art Historian. Professor in Vienna. Son of a cloth manufacturer, Josef Strzygowski (1823–1877), and his wife Josefine Fraas, Edle von Friedenfelt (1833–1909), a Roman Catholic of minor nobility. In 1880 took apprenticeship in a weaving plant,…
STÜBE, Rudolf Heinrich Karl. Behren-Lübchin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin 27.7.1870 — 1930. German Historian of Religion. In 1890-94 studies of theology and Oriental languages at Rostock, Halle (i.al. under Pischel) and Berlin. Ph.D.1894 and cand. theol. 1897 Halle. Worked as schoolteacher (Oberlehrer) in Leipzig, continuing his studies. Publications: Diss. 33 p. of Jüdisch-babylonische…
STUMPF, Peter. 26.1.1940 — 26.5.1977. German Tocharian Scholar. School in Berlin and from 1953 in Frankfurt. From 1959 studies of IE and Indology at Frankfurt. Ph.D. 1968 Frankfurt (under W. Thomas). Worked as Assistant at Frankfurt. Negative opinion of Thomas prevented the planned habilitation at Frankfurt. Died young of heart…
SULEJKIN, Dmitrij Aleksandrovič. Gorjačevodskaja, Terskoj oblast 1900 — Leningrad 1948. Russian Indologist. Studies at Leningrad (under Ščerbatskoj), then 1935-38 and again 1945-48 naučnyj sotrudnik at the Oriental Institute of the Soviet Academy of Science in Leningrad. Kand. filologičeskih nauk 1943. He was a Sanskrit scholar interested in state, society and…
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.
SUMMER, Mary (nom-de-plume, really Marie [or Louise-Charlotte] Foucaux, née Filon). Paris 6.12.1842 — Paris 5.6.1902. French Indological Author. Daughter of Charles Auguste Désiré 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…
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.