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.…
VOYSEY, Henry Wesley. Salisbury, Wiltshire 16.10.1791 — Sulkea Ghat 19.4.1824. British Physician, Geologist and Mineralogits in India. Son of Baptist minister Henry Voysey (1753–1829?) and Ann Maria Annesley Ellison (d. 1836). Studied medicine and geology in London and Aberdeen. Dr. In 1815 served as military hospital assistant, then left for India.…
SWINTON, Robert Blair. Bath 1829 — Blackheath, London 23.12.1912. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Colonel William Swinton (1774–1853) and Elizabeth Blair. Came to Indi in 1849, Judge of Madras Civil Service, in 1868 in Bangalore. Retired in 1874 and moved with his family to England. Married 1858 Elizabeth…
SCHULZE, Friedrich Volkmar Paul (Frederick Volkomor P. Schulze). 18?? — 19??. Rev. German (?) Missionary in India (still there in 1931). Publications: A grammar of the Kuvi language. 252 p. Madras 1911. – The Religion of the Kuvi-Konds. 100 p. Madras 1912. – Vocabulary of the Kuvi-Kond Language with short Sentences on General Subjects…
ROBERTS, Roger Elliot. 1753? — London 9.8.1831. British Colonial Officer in India. As Major in 1777 visited Burma, in the mid-1780s called Persian interpreter. In 1798 Lieutenant-Colonel, 180? Colonel. Member of Asiatic Society (1802/10) and Royal Society (1801-31). Also knew Hindustani. According to thepeerage.com one Colonel R.E.R. (the same?) married Mary…
METZ, Johann Friedrich. Lustnau (Tübingen) 1819 — Tübingen 1886 (Sebastian 1895). Rev. German Missionary in India. Served Basel Missionary Society in Mangalore. From 1847 among Todas, at least 24 years there. He is said to have been arrogant towards his hearers and he never had any converts. Also a lay…
GRAETER, Albert. Boston 26.9.1835 — Basel 1909. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India. Son of John Henry Francis Gr. (born in Württemberg) and Elizabeth Mason Goodwin. Went to India as a member of Basel Mission of Mangalore. In 1865-70 schoolteacher in Coorg. Retired, he worked 1870-1908 as teacher of English in…
FUCHS, Stephen. Bruck an der Mur 30.4.1908 — St.Gabriel, Mödling 17.1.2000. S.V.D. Austrian Missionary and Anthropologist in India. Grew up in Graz, in 1922-27 student at S.V.D.’s mission high school in St. Rupert’s in Bischofshofen. Joined the Society of Divine Word in 1927 and studied theology at St.Augustine near Bonn…
FLEX, Oscar (Oskar) Theodor. Dubrau, Oberspreewald-Lausitz 27.8.1840 — 19??. Rev. German Missionary in India. From Silesia. From 1861 in Gossner Mission in Ranchi, working with Kurukh (Oraon). In 1869 ordained priest and married Antonie Flex, children. In 1877 joined Gospel Propagation Society. Later in Europe (1881), then in West Indies.…
DROESE, Ernest (Ernst Dröse). Thorn (now Toruń in Poland) 12.7.1817 — Landour near Mussoorie, Uttarkhand 19.4.1891. Rev. German Missionary in India. He began as apprentice silversmith, but soon turned to missionary career and entered the seminary of Berlin Mission in 1838 and was sent to India in 1842. Worked in…