PONETTE, Pierre August Maria Jozef. Ronse, East Flanders 6.3.1910 — Ranchi 3.2.2000. Father. S.J. Belgian Catholic Missionary in India. Son of René Ponette (1874–1918), textile manufacturer and advocate, and Margareta Van Coppenolle (1882–1969). Joined S.J. in 1927 and 1931 its Indian mission. In 1932-35 studies of language and theology in Shembaganur,…
PINGREE, David Edwin. New Haven, CT 2.1.1933 — Providence, RI 11.11.2005. U.S. Indologist and Historian of Science. Son of Daniel Pingree (1902–1986) and Elizabeth Maconi. Grew up in Providence and attended school there. Graduated 1950 from Phillips Academy in Andover. Studied Sanskrit, classics and mathematics, then also Arabic, at Harvard. Mainly…
PIKE, Albert. Boston 29.12.1809 — Washington, D.C. 2.4.1891. U.S. Author, Poet, Orator, Editor, Lawyer. and Confederate General. Son of Benjamin Pike and Sarah Andrews. Grew up in Byfield and Newburyport, Mass. Self-educated, worked as teacher in Gloucester, North Bedford, Fairhaven and Newburyport. In 1831 left for west, stayed first in…
PIETRASZEWSKI, Ignacy (Ignatius). Biskupiec, Warmia 31.12.1796 — 16.11.1869. Polish Orientalist. Son of Baltazar Pietrazewski (d. 1802) and Barbara Ciecierska. Studied at Vilnius, 1826-31 at St.Petersburg (Turkish, Persian, Arabic). In 1832-40 worked in Russian consulates in Constantinople, Jaffa, Thessalonika and Alexandria. Taught briefly Turkish at St.Petersburg. From 1844 living in Berlin. Ph.D.…
PETROVIĆ, Svetozar. Karlovac 28.6.1931 — Novi Sad 23.10.2005. Croatian Scholar of Literature. Graduated from Zagreb 1956, also studied Indology at Allahabad. Ph.D. 1966 in Croatian literature. In 1959-70 Assistant and Docent of Yugoslavian Literature at Zagreb. In 1970-77 Professor of Literature at Novi Sad and from 1977 at Belgrade. Retired…
PELLY, Richard Lawrence. Coldharbour, Surrey 18.7.1886 — Salisbury, Wiltshire 7.4.1976. Rev. British. Son of Rev. Canon Richard Arnold Pelly (1856–1949) and Margaret Jane Buxton (1859–1903). Educated at Marlborough College. Studies at Cambridge (Clare College), B.A. 1910, M.A. 1912. In 1915-18 served as army chaplain. In 1918-26 Vice-Principal of Bishop’s College…
PARRINDER, Edward Geoffrey Simons. New Barnet, Hertfordshire 10.4.1910 — 16.6.2005. British Scholar of Comparative Religion. Methodist minister. Son of a glove dealer, of a practising Wesleyan Methodist family. Educated in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, when 16 began working as a railway booking clerk. Interested in religion and mission studied 1929-32 at Richmond…
NEUBAUER, Edwin. 1??? — . Austrian Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1931 Vienna. Publications: Diss. Indisches Privatleben im Spiegel der Jātakas.Manuscript 1931. Sources: Diss. in Janert; nothing in internet.
MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich (Fëdor Ivanovič Miller). Herford, Westfalen 29.10.1705 — Moscow 11/22.10.1783. German Historian, Ethnograph and Explorer of Siberia in Russia. Son of gymnasium director Thomas Müller and Anna Maria Bode. Gymnasium in Herford, studied at Rinteln and Leipzig (Greman Wikip., in Russianversion Rinteln and Halle), mainly philosophy and history. In…
MORRETTA, Angelo (Dan Petraşincu). 1910 — 1997. Italian-Romanian Scholar of Religion. Ph.D. From 1951 living in Rome, probably died there. Publications: Gli dei dell’ India: breve enciclopedia illustrata del pantheon indù. 364 p. Milano 1966. – Il pensiero vedanta. 396 p. Studi contemporanei 6.Rome 1968. – La parola e il silenzio. Una…