AUSTIN, Jack. Caerleon, Newport, Wales 16.7.1917 — 15.8.1993. British Bauddha. Reading of Edwin Arnold turned him into Buddhism. Joined A. Govinda’s Arya Maitreya Mandala, led its British branch. Living in London. Friend of Christmas Humhreys. Married 1949, four children. Publications: Translated: The Dhammapada, a New Version. L. 1945, 6th ed. 72…
AUROUSSEAU, Léonard Eugène. Cannes 12.7.1888 — Yerres, Île-de-France 24.1.1929. French Sinologist. Son of Paul Jules Aurousseau and Anaïs Stéphanie Forestier. Educated at colleges of Montluçon (Allier) and Montbéliard (Doubs), then at Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. Studied Chinese at É.P.H.É. (Chavannes) and É.L.O.V. In 1909 to Indochina as soldier, also allowed…
WOODHOUSE, Edmund. Finningley, Nottingham 1841 — Tanga, German East Africa (Tanzania) 1895. This death in Jayasuriya, but ancestry.com claims Warmbaths, Transvaal, South Africa 26.5.1937. British Planter, Writer and Traveller in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Gervas Harvey Woodhouse (1802–1882) and Miriam Pigot. Probably came to Ceylon in 1865. Coffee planter…
VAUDEVILLE, Charlotte Louise Marie. La Tronche (Isère) 1918 — Poissy (Yvelines) 28.4.2006. Mademoiselle. French Indologist, a Specialist of Bhakti Religion and Poetry. Professor in Paris. Studied classics and Indology in Paris (Bloch and Renou): licence-ès-lettres 1939 Sorbonne (in classics), certificat d’études indiennes (Sanskrit) 1942 and diplome des langues orientales (Hindi) 1943.…
TSEREPES, Georgios N. (Giorgios Tserepis; Γεώργιος Τσερέπης). 1836 — 1908. Greek Linguist. From Cephallonia (?). In 1891 Docent of Sanskrit at Athens. Publications: Translated Meghadūta: Nephelangelos, poiēmation indikon (Νεφελάγγελος, ποιημάτιον ινδικόν). 1878. – Indika meletēmata(Ινδικά Μελετήματα). 1884. – Also wrote on Greek language. Sources: Scanty stray notes in Internet.
TREWEEK, Athanasius Pryor. Sydney 29.12.1911 — Sydney 20.1.1995. Australian Classical Scholar, Linguist and Mathematician. The only child of teacher Walter Henry Treweek (b. 1866 in Cornwall, d. 1920) and nurse Mary Matilda Dwyer (1872–1953). After Saint Ignatius’ College in Riverview he studied classics and mathematics at Sydney. Ph.D. 193?. From…
TOPOROV, Vladimir Nikolaevič. Moscow 5.7.1928 — Moscow 5.12.2005. Russian Indologist and IE Linguist. Son of an official. Graduated 1951 from Moscow University ( student of M. N. Peterson). Kand. filol. nauk 1955. From 1954 naučnyj sotrudnik at Instituta slavjanovedenija AN SSSR in Moscow, 1960 staršij naučnyj sotrudnik. Hon. Dr. filol.…
THORDARSON, Fridrik (Friđrik þórđarson). Reykjavik 7.3.1928 — 2.10.2005. Icelandic Iranian Scholar in Norway. Son of Thordar Gudmundson and Gudrun Sigurdadottir. After school in Reykjavik came to Norway 1951 and studied classical philology at Oslo (with Indology as minor), graduated 1963. From 1965 taught Classics at Oslo as Lecturer, from 1994…
TALAMO, Vincenzo. Ardore, Reggio Calabria 7.3.1914 — 2006. Italian Physician interested in Buddhism. In 1925 family moved to Turin, then back in Reggio. Interested early in Buddhism, but studied medicine at Naples and Florence. In the war served in Liguria and Balkan as medical officer. At armistice joined Tito’s partisans,…
STANLEY, M. Victor. near Omro, Wisc. 1866 — 19??. U.S. Studied at Lawrence University, 1887-1892, then at University of Wisconsin (B.A. 1893) and University of Oregon (M.A. 1894, LL.B. 1904). Ph.D. 1895 Yale. In 1900 admitted to bar, for a while practised in Portland, Oregon. Then teaching Latin, soon Supervising-Principal…