SUMMERS, Gertrude M.
SUMMERS, Gertrude M., Miss. 1??? — 19??. Miss. British. Lecturer in Bengali at S.O.A.S. in London in the end of the 1930s and still 1948. Publications: Nothing found. Sources: Mentioned in S.O.A.S. reports.
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SVETOVIDOVA, Irina Anatol’evna
SVETOVIDOVA, Irina Anatol’evna. Leningrad 3.8.1930 — 6.5.1968. Russian Indologist (Bengali scholar). Daughter of an official. Graduated 1955 from Leningrad Oriental Faculty. In 1957-68 naučnyj sotrudnik at Leningrad Oriental Institute, in 1965-68 also taught at Oriental Faculty. About 20 publications, e.g.: Publications: Translated: “R. Tagor, Posledmjaja poèma”, R. Tagor, Sočinenija. 3.…
SPENCER, Arthur Marshman
SPENCER, Arthur Marshman. Calcutta 19.9.1886 — Calcutta 14.4.1943. British (?) Missionary in Bengal. Son of William Marshmn Sp. and Elizabeth Tasker Williams. Educated at Kingwood School and Headingly College, Leeds. In 1911-32 worked in Sarenga, then in Calcutta. Married 1915 Beatrice Mary Day. Publications: Transl. from Bengali with E. J.…
WILKINS, Charles
WILKINS, Charles. Frome, Somerset bapt. 21.6.1749 (not 1750!) — London 13.5.1833. Sir. British Pioneer of Indology. In India 1770-86. Son of Hugh W. (Sengupta Walter W.)and Mary Wray, a modest family. Joining the E.I.C.’s service he came to India as a Writer in July 1770 and served in 1770-72 as…
WENGER, John
WENGER, John (Johann). Schwarzeneck near Bern 31.8.1811 — Calcutta 20.8.1880. Rev. Swiss Missionary in India. Son of Christian W. (d. 1816) and his wife, née Fischer. From 1824 gymnasium and 1827 studies of classics and theology at Bern. Adopted Baptism in 1832. In 1833-38 in Greece as tutor in an English…
WAGNER, Reinhard
WAGNER, Reinhard. 1??? — 19??. German Specialist of Bengali. Dr. Schoolteacher (Studienrat). As Docent taught Bengali at Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin in 1929–44/45.. Publications: A Bengali grammar in German. – Translated: Bengalische Erzähler. Der Sieg der Seele. 287 p. B. 1926. – Bengali Texte in Urschrift und Umschrift.…
RÖER, Eduard
RÖER, Johann (Hans) Heinrich Eduard. Braunschweig 26.10.1805 — Braunschweig 17.3.1866. German Indologist in India. Studies of philosophy at Königsberg and Berlin, Ph.D. 1833. Then PD of Philosophy at Berlin until 1838, now also studied Sanskrit and became interested in India, but soon abandoned missionary plans. He joined E.I.C.’s service and…
RIDDING, C. Mary
RIDDING, Caroline Mary. Meriden, Warwickshire 30.8.1862 — Cambridge 9.11.1941. Miss. British Indologist. Daughter of Rev. William R. and Caroline Selina Caldecott. Studied classics and Sanskrit (under Cowell) at Cambridge, for a while scholar of Girton College (1883-86). Then further studies financed by tutoring. Living in Clapton (1892) and London (1897).…
TUBJANSKIJ, Mihail Izrailevič
TUBJANSKIJ, Mihail Izrailevič. St.Petersburg 6.(18.)1893 — Leningrad 24.11.1937 (not 1943). Russian Indologist (Sanskrit and Bengali) and Tibetologist. Son of a Jewish official. Graduated 1919 from Oriental Faculty, Petrograd, student of Ščerbackoj and Vladimircov (Mongolian). In 1920-27 and 1937 taught Bengali at Institute of Living Oriental Languages and at Oriental Institute,…
THOMPSON, Edward J.
THOMPSON, Edward John. Hazel Grove, Stockport near Manchester 9.4.1886 — Bledlow, Buckinghamshire 28.4.1946. British Wesleyan Missionary and Author in India. Son of John Moses Th. (d. 1894), a missionary in South India, and his wife Elizabeth, born during the family’s furlough in England. Educated in Bath, for a while worked…