ERSKINE, William. Edinburgh 8.11.1773 — Edinburgh 20.5.1852. British (Scottish) Civil Servant and Lawyer. 1804-23 in India. Son of David Erskine (1739?–1791), a lawyer, and Jean Melvin (1753?–1780?). Educated at Royal High School and Edinburgh University (dr. iuris). He “was a lawyer’s apprentice, 1792-9, went to India in 1803-4 with Sir…
ERNŠTEDT (Jernstedt), Petr Viktorovič. Gačina (Hačina) 9.(21.)6.1890 — Leningrad 25.12.1966. Russian Egyptologist. Son of a classical scholar, Viktor Karlovič Ernštedt (d. 1902). Graduated 1913 from St.Petersburg. Magistr 1917, kand. jazykoved. 1935, Dr. filol. nauk 1942. In 1918-50 he worked as naučnyj sotrudnik at Oriental Institute of Russian Academy, also in…
ERNOUT, Alfred Georges. Lille 30.10.1879 — Paris 16.6.1973. French IE and Classical Linguist, mainly Latin Scholar. Son of Léon Ernout, tradesman in Lille, and Célina Louisa Venelle. Educated at Lycée de Lille, studied at Faculté des lettres de Lille (lic.ès lettres 1900) and at Sorbonne (dr.ès lettres 1908) and É.P.H.É.…
ERGARDT, Jan. 1936 — 23.12.1992. Swedish Scholar of Comparative Religion, especially Buddhism. Ph.D. 1970 Lund. He taught at Lund University and died after long illness. He applied his knowledge of modern psychology to interpretation of Buddhism. Publications: Diss. Buddhismen i Västerlandet: Undersökning av engelsk buddhism under 1900-talet. 538 p. Lund…
ERDMANN, Friedrich Franz Ludwig von (Russian Fëdor Ivanovič Èrdman, born Friedrich Franz Ludwig Erdmann). Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg 15.3.1793 (or 1795?) — Kazan 2/14.2.1862. German Historian of Asia in Russia. Son of Johann Ernst Friedrich Erdmann (1759–1814), a vicar, and Luise Adel. Educated in Lübeck, studies at Rostock (O. G. Tychsen) and Göttingen.…
ERDMAN, Axel. Stockholm 6.2.1843 — Uppsala 8.11.1926. Swedish Linguist. Professor of English in Uppsala. Son of the mineralogist Axel J. Erdman (1814–1869) and Sophia Charlotta Nyström, educated in Stockholm. From 1861 studies of classical and modern languages at Uppsala, fil.kand. 1869. Then school-teacher of classical languages and English. In 1871…
ENTWISTLE, Alan William. Weymouth, Dorsett 10.3.1949 — Seattle 28.3.1996. British Indologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Seattle. Son of W. D. Entwistle and Neta D. Whiles. Studies at University of Southampton (B.A. 1971 in French) and S.O.A.S. (M.A. 1975 in Area Studies). In 1976-78 field-work in Vrindaban, India. Ph.D. 1982…
ENTHOVEN, Reginald Edward. Hastings, Sussex 23.11.1869 — Boars Hill near Oxford 21.5.1952 (when 82). British Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of James Henry Enthoven (1823–1913) and Miriam Josephine Mozley. Educated at Wellington College, from 1887 studies at New College, Oxford, in preparation to Indian service. Joined I.C.S. in…
ENGELSMANN, Gabriel. 18?? — 1???. Student of Indology in Austria. Ph.D. 1885 Vienna. Perhaps hailed from a learned Jewish family in what is now Slovakia. One G.E. of Vienna, a journalist, is mentioned in 1902. geni.com knows one Gabor/Gabriel E., the son of Jakob E. and Róza Englander, born c.…
ENDLE, Sidney. Totnes, Devon 1840? — Dibrugarh ?.7.1907. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of a vicar, educated at Totnes Grammar School and at St. Augustine’s College in Canterbury. First arrived at Tezpur in Assam in 1864 and worked 43 years as Anglican missionary and chaplain among Kachari Baras (Bodos).…