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…
RAVEAU, Régine Gisèle Francette. Poitiers (Vienne) 17.5.1922 — Saint-Sébastien-du-Morsent (Eure) 9.12.1997. French Teacher interested in Sanskrit. Daughter of a winegrower. Studied German at Poitiers and Sanskrit in Paris. Ph.D. Librarian of Société asiatique, 1951 in Calcutta. Then schoolteacher of German. From 1936 active communist. Publications: “L’adaptation des lois de Manu chez les…
RASTORGUEVA, Vera Sergeevna. Manor of Storoževskij, Tambovskij Gub. (later Usmanskij rajon in Lipeckaja oblast) 23.5.(5.6.)1912 — 7.11.2005. Russian Iranian Scholar. Daughter of a farmer. Graduated 1938 in Leningrad. Kand. filologičeskih nauk 1944, Docent 1947, Dr. 1964, Professor 1969. In 1942-44 taught Iranian philology at University of Tadzhikistan, in 1945-60 at…
RASSAT, Hans-Joachim. Elbing, Westpreussen 29.1.1926 — Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) 7.1.1999. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1955 Tübingen. Probably worked as journalist. Publications: Diss. Gaṇeśa. Eine Untersuchung über Herkunft, Wesen und Kult der elefantenköpfigen Gottheit Indiens. Manuscript of 5+195 p. Tübingen 1955. – A. Holtzmann; Indische Sagen. Eingeleitet und erläutert von H.J.R.…