GANIVET Y GARCÍA, Ángel. Granada 13.12.1865 — Riga, Latvia (then part of Russia) 29.11.1898. Spanish Writer and Diplomat. Son of mill-owner Francisco Ganivet Morcillo (d. 1875) and Angeles García Siles. In 1880-88 studied law and philosophy at Granada and 1888-89 at Madrid. Ph.D. and licence in law 1890 Granada. In 1892 entered…
GAEFFKE, Hans Peter Theodor. Breslau 6.12.1927 — Philadelphia 30.3.2005. German Indologist (Hindī scholar) in the U.S.A. Professor in Philadelphia. Son of engineer Albert Gaeffke. School in 1938-44 in Breslau, then military service 1944-45 and time as war prisoner. In 1947-48 studied history and Germanistics at Regensburg Hochschule, from 1948 Linguistics at…
FRERE, Mary Eliza Isabella. Bitton, Gloucestershire 11.8.1845 — St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex 26.3.1911. British Author. Daughter of —> Bartle Frere (1815–1884) and Catherine Arthur. Educated at home in Wimbledon. In the age of 18 joined her father in Bombay 1863, participated in his official travels and began collecting folklore, supported in this…
ENSINK, Jacob (Jaap). Hilversum 5.6.1921 — ?.9.2005. Dutch Indologist and Old Javanese Scholar. Professor in Groningen. Son of Klaas Ensink (1891–1980) and Margarethe Josine van Gelder. Studied Classics, Indology and Indonesian philology (under Gonda and Bosch) at Utrecht, 1952 Ph.D. there. In 1954-62 Lecturer (lektor) of Indology at Groningen, from 1962…
EMENEAU, Murray Barnson. Lunenburg, Nova Scotia 28.2.1904 — Berkeley, CA 29.8.2005. Canadian Indologist and Anthropologist in the U.S.A. U.S. citizen 1941. Professor in Berkeley. Son of Archibald Emeneau (1871–1912) and Ada Helena Barnson (1875–1961). Father’s early death left the family in poor conditions, but a scholarship helped him to college.…
COOK, Walter Anthony. Washington, DC 17.2.1922 — Washington, DC 27.4.1999. S.J. U.S. Linguist. Son of Patrick Michael Cook and Catherine Lavinia Gaskins. B.A. 1945 Woodstock College, in teaching of mathematics. In 1949-62 teacher in Jamshedpur, Bihar. Also studied theology at De Nobili College in Poona and St. Mary’s College in…
CHAVARRIA-AGUILAR, Oscar Luis. San José, Costa Rica 21.8.1922 — San José, Costa Rica 10.9.2005. Costa Rican Linguist in the U.S.A. Son of Francisco José Ricardo de Jesús Chavarría Flores (1892–1937) and Adela Joaquina María Aguilar Mathé. School in San José. Came to the U.S.A. in 1942. In 1942-45 served in U.S. Air…
ČERNIKOVA, Sofija Aleksandrovna. v g. Satke Čeljabinskoj obl. 16.11.1936 — 1995. Russian Indologist (Urdu). Daughter of an official, graduated 1958 from Vost. Fak. of Taškent University. In 1963-64 further studies at Delhi University. Kand. filol. n. 1965 (Moscow). Teaching at Vost. Fak. of Taškent University from 1965. Docent 1970. Publications:…
ČAVČAVADZE, Tinatin Aleksandrovna. Tbilisi 29.4.1928 — 1997. Georgian Indo-Iranian scholar. Daughter of an official, graduated 1949 from Oriental Faculty of Tbilisi University. Kand. filol. nauk 1954, dr. filol. nauk 1987. In 1956-58 taught at Tbilisi University, 1957-60 naučnyj sotrudnik at Linguistic Inst. (Inst. Jazykoznanija) and from 1960 at Oriental Institute…
CARDONA, Giorgio Raimondo. Rome 7.1.1943 — Rome 14.8.1988. Italian Linguist. Professor in Rome. Son of Giacinto Cardona. Studied at La Sapienza in Rome. From 1968 Assistant and 1980-88 ord. Professor of Linguistics at La Sapienza. A specialist of sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics. Publications: “Per una etimologia di Toc. A. pātsānk, B. patstsāṅk ‘finestra’”,…