SCERBO, Francesco. Marcellinara (Catanzaro, Calabria) 7.10.1849 — 13.10.Rome 1927. Italian Linguist and Oriental (Hebrew & Sanskrit) Scholar. Professor in Florence. Of modest origin, son of Giacinto Pietro Scerbo and Maria Riglione. From 1863 studies at seminary of Nicastro. Ordained priest 1873. Continued his studies at Florence concentrating on Semitics, but…
ŠČERBATSKOJ, Fëdor Ippolitovič (Theodor Scherbatskoy). Kielce, Poland 19.9.(1.10.)1866 — Borovoe, Kazakhstan 18.3.1942. Russian Indologist, specialist of Buddhist Philosophy. The name is somewhat problematic, but according to Russian colleagues (Vasil’kov) -koj (instead of -kij) seems well attested. Born in the then Russian part of Poland where his father, Ippolit Fëdorovič Šč.…
SAUNDERS, Virginia. 18?? — 19??. U.S. Indologist. Living in New York City. Publications: “Portrait Painting as a Dramatic Device in Sanskrit Plays”, JAOS 39, 1919, 299-302; “Some Literary Aspects of the Absence of Tragedy in the Classical Sanskrit Drama”; JAOS 41, 1921, 152-156; “Magic in Sanskrit Drama”, JAOS 45, 1925,…
SAUNDERS, Kenneth James. Cape Town 10.1.1882 — 1937 (findagrave knows K.J.S. 1883 – 19.11.1937, buried in Eastbourne, Sussex). British (?) Missionary and Buddhist Scholar in Sri Lanka and India, finally in the U.S.A. Studies at Cambridge (Emmanuel College): B.A. 1905, M.A. 1912. In 1908-12 Vice-Principal of Trinity College in Kandy.…
SAUNDERS, Arthur Leslie. London 7.3.1862 — 31.10.1935. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Indian Religions. Son of Arthur William Saunders. Studies at Oxford (Balliol College), joined I.C.S. 1880. Served in Central Provinces and United Provinces in 1882-1917, then 1918-23 in Financial Department of India Office. Retired and probably lived…
SAUER, Wilhelm. 18?? — 1???. German Schoolteacher. Gymnasium Professor in Stuttgart. In his study he compared Indian and German epic legends. Publications: Mahabhárata und Wate. Eine indogermanische Studie. 74 p. Progr. des Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart 1892-93. St. 1893. Sources: Untraced, except the study scanned by HathiTrust (this at least showed that…
SASSETTI, Filippo. Florence 26/28.9.1540 — Goa 3.9.1588. Italian Traveller. Son of a wealthy merchant, he studied at Pisa 1568-73 and thus knew Latin and Greek. In 1578 he went to Spain and Portugal and then 1583 to India as the agent of a Florentine spice syndicate. On way to India…
SALYS, Antanas. Reketė, North-West Lithuania 21.7.1902— Philadelphia 31.7.1972. Lithuanian IE and Baltic Linguist, later in the U.S.A. Educated in Telsini. Studies at Kaunas and Leipzig (Trautmann). Ph.D. 1929 Leipzig. In 1930-39 PD of IE at Vytautas University in Kaunas, developed experimental phonetics of Lithuanian. In 1941-44 the first Director of…
SALOMONS (Prooije-S.), Henriette Johanna Wilhelmina. Rotterdam 20.5.1882 — the Hague 23.8.1959. Dutch Indologist. Daughter of Constant Theodoor Salomons, director of a gas factory, and Trinette Maria Kortman. From 1901 studies of Dutch at Leiden (i.a. under Uhlenbeck), with little progress, after B.A. moved to Utrecht and took Sanskrit under Caland.…
SALISBURY, Edward Elbridge. Boston, Mass. 6.4.1814 — New Haven, Conn. 5.2.1901. U.S. Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Professor in New Haven. Son of Josiah S. (1781–1826) and Abigail Breese (1780–1866), a learned American family. Educated by his father, then at Boston Latin School. Studies ofGreek and Hebrew atYale, graduated 1832. After…