CAMERON, George Glenn. Washington, PA 30.7.1905 — Ann Arbor 14.9.1979. U.S. Archaeologist and Historian of ancient Iran. Professor in Ann Arbor. Son of William Byers Cameron and Elizabeth Smith. Educated in 1923-25 at Washington and Jefferson College, 1925-27 at Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio (A.B. 1927), then studies at University…
CALMETTE, Jean. Rodez (Aveyron) 5.5.1692 (not 1693) — Chickballapur, Karnataka ?.2.1740 (hardly 1739). S.J. French Missionary and a Pioneer of Indology. He joined the S.J. as novice in Toulouse in 1709 (not in 1720!). Ordained 1725 and left for India in 1726 and worked at Carnatic mission, in Carveypondi (near…
CALMBERG, Ernst Philipp Ludwig. Wasungen, Sachsen-Meiningen 12.4.1794 — Hamburg 29.1.1851. German Schoolteacher and Philologist. Son of a deacon (then minister), educated at village school and Meiningen Lyceum. Studies of theology and philology at Jena. Worked as a tutor and from 1819 as a teacher at Johanneum in Hamburg, where, from…
CALDWELL, Robert. Clady, county Antrim, Northern Ireland 7.5.1814 — Kodaikanal, India 28.8.1891. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary and Indologist. Born in Ireland of poor Presbyterian Ulster Scottish parents, the family moved to Glasgow, where he had to work from the age of nine. When fifteen he moved to Dublin and began…
CALAND, Willem. Brielle (Den Briel), Zuid Holland 27.8.1859 — Utrecht 23.3. 1932. Dutch Indologist. Professor in Utrecht. Son of the water engineer Pieter Caland (1826–1902) and Helena Carolina de Jonge (1828–1893). Educated in the Hague. Studied from 1877 classical philology under Cobet at Leiden, became interested in Kern’s lectures. In…
CAIX DE SAINT-AYMOUR, Amédée, vicomte de. Senlis (Oise) 26.4.1843 — Paris 1.2.1921. French Archaeologist and Historian with early interest in Comparative Linguistics. Studied law and linguistics, later turned to archaeology. Son of Léon de Caix de Saint-Aymour (maire of Ognon) and Louise Marie Eugénie Raffard de Marcilly. In 1869 led an…
CAIN, John. 184? — 17.3.1917. Rev. British Missionary in India. Arrived in India in 1869, from 1874 in Dummagudem in Godavari dt. working there until his death. Married 1880 Sarah Davies (d. 1934), the first Australian missionary in India. He collected notes about Dravidian tribal languages and customs and participated…
CADELL, Patrick Robert. Bhurtpore (Bharatpur), Bengal 6.5.1871 — Frilford Heath, Abingdon, Berkshire 22.11.1961 (when 90). Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India and Historian of Colonial India. Son of colonel Thomas Cadell (1835–1919) and Anna Dalmahoy (1837–1876). Educated at Haileybury, studies at Oxford (Balliol College). Joined I.C.S. in 1891, served…
CACELLA, Estevão. Aviz/Evora 1585 — Shigatse 6.3.1630. S.J. Father. Portuguese Missionary in India and Ladakh. Joined the S.J. in 1604, left for India in 1614. Served first in Malabar mission in Cochin, in 1626 he was sent together with —> J. Cabral to Shigatse (arrived in 1627 via Bhutan, being…
CABRAL, Pedro Álvarez (born Pedro Álvarez de Gouveia). Belmonte, Portugal 1467/68 — Santarém? 1520. Portuguese Sailor. Son of a minor nobleman, Fernão Cabral and Isabel Gouveia, himself in high positions at the court of king Manuel. In 1500 he was given the command of the second Portuguese Indian expedition, a…