SINCLAIR, Albert Thomas. Brighton, Middlesex, Mass. 4.12.1844 — Boston, Mass. 21.4.1911. U.S. Lawyer and Gipsy Scholar. Son of Thomas Sinclair (1805–1883) and Caroline Abby Tracy. Worked as lawyer in Brighton, then in Boston. Married 1889 Mary Terrell Ross (1863–1902), three daughters. Publications: “An American-Romani vocabulary, by Albert Thomas Sinclair; comp. and…
SILBURN, Aliette. Paris 29.4.1921 — 2005. French. Daughter of English father, Walter John Silburn (1883–1928), and French mother, Berthe Hélène Dupuis (1880–1953), younger sister of —> Lilian Silburn (1908–1993). Apparently studied Sanskrit, but probably did not continue it further. She was living in Paris in her original home with her…
SHARP, Ralph Norman. Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire 23.6.1896 — Chippenham, Wiltshire 11.9.1995. Rev. British Missionary and Iranian Scholar. Son of John Emilius Ernest Steigenberger Sharp (1847–1951), Keeper of the Public Records, and Mary Elizabeth Ballance. After school in Westminster studied Theology and Classics at Cambridge (Queen’s College), M.A. Worked 40 years…
SCHARBAU, Carl Anders (soon C. A. Skriver-Scharbau). Garstedt 8.12.1903 — 24.3.1983. German Priest and former Student of Indology/Religion. Became interested in Buddhism in 1920. A heart defect slowered his career, but later also saved him from war service in the army. Ph.D. 1932 Tübingen. Ordained 1933 in Hamburg. In 1934-58…
SAZANOVA, Natal’ja Mihajlovna. Moscow 19.1.1932 — 17.4.2006. Russian Indologist (Hindi Literature). Daughter of official. Graduated 1954 from Moscow in history. Kand. filol. nauk 1962, Dr. filol. nauk 1984. From 1958 taught at Institute of Oriental Languages, Moscow University. Professor’s title 1989. Publications: At least 50 items, e.g. kand.diss. Problematika dramaturgii…
RUNDGREN, Gustav Frithiof. Stockholm 25.12.1921 — Uppsala 16.9.2006. Swedish Semitic and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Uppsala. Grew up in Stockholm. From 1939 studied Semitics at Uppsala (Nyberg): fil.kand. (M.A.) 1950, fil.lic. 1951, Ph.D. 1955. In 1949-55 teacher of Hebrew at Uppsala, PD 1955. In 1964-88 Professor of Semitic Languages at…
RÜPING, Klaus. Burg near Magdeburg 8.8.1940 — 7.9.2005. German Indologist. Professor in Münster. Son of economist Erich Rüping and his wife, elementary school teacher Hildegard Rüping, grew up in Bochum, gymnasium there until 1959. Then studies of Classics at Münster, from 1963 also Indology (under Hacker), 1963-64 one year at Bonn.…
ROGER RIVIÈRE, Juan. 1903 — ????. Spanish Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Active as early as 1947. Professor of Indology (or Oriental Art) at Complutense in Madrid in the 1960s. Publications: El pensamiento filosófico de Asia. 533 p. Madrid 1960. – La India. 262 p. Barcelona 1962. – “The problem of…
RIDGEWAY, Thomas (Tom) Bruce. Chewelah, co. Stevens, WA 30.9.1949 — Seattle 15.4.2005. U.S. Linguist. Son of Colonel Gordon Blais Ridgeway (1918–2003) and Margaret Adelaide Carlock (1922–2015), grew up in Taiwan and Germany. Went to India as a Peace Corps Volunteer. B.A. in chemistry. Ph.D. 1986 University of Washington. Started mainly as…
REDARD, Georges. Neuchâtel 4.4.1922 — Kirchlindach 24.1.2005. Swiss IE and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Neuchâtel and Bern. Son of post official Arnold Ernest Redard and Mathilde Kröpfli. Studies at Neuchâtel: 1940 baccalauréat ès lettres (with Hebrew), 1943 licensié ès langues classiques (with Russian, Lithuanian, Persian and Sanskrit); then at Bern…