TORRENS, Henry Whitelock. Canterbury 20.5.1806 — Calcutta 11.8.1852. British Civil Servant and Indologist in India. Son of Major-General Henry Torrens (1779–1828, of Northern Ireland) and Sarah Patton (1781–1863). Educated at Brook Green and the Charterhouse, from 1823 studied at Oxford (Christ Church; B.A. 1825). Entered the Inner Temple and served…
TORP, Alf. Stryn 27.9.1853 — Kristiania (Oslo) 26.9.1916. Norwegian Linguist and IE Scholar. Professor in Kristiania (Oslo). Son of a captain of infantry, Fredrik Torp (1816–1869), and Gjerthruf Ravn (1830–1876). Educated in Bergen (matriculation 1877), then studies of Classics, Old Norse and Sanskrit at Kristiania (Bugge), M.A. 1877. From 1878-80…
TOMSON, Aleksandr Ivanovič (Thomson). Near Dorpat (Tartu), Livonia 3.(15.)6.1864 — Odessa 27.11.1935. Russian (Estonian) Linguist (Phonetician), Scholar of Slavic, Sanskrit and Armenian. Son of (Lutheran) Estonian parents, Juhani and Emilia Thomson. From 1882 studies at St.Petersburg, graduated 1887. Further studies in Moscow, under Fortunatov and Korsch, wrote his diss. on Armenian…
TOMAŠEVSKIJ, Vsevolod Bronislavovič. St.Petersburg 13.(25.)9.1891 — Leningrad 14.2.1927. Russian Linguist. Son of Bronislav V. Tomaševskij (1850–1908), a physician, and Vera Ivanovna Cvetkova. From 1909 studies at St.Petersburg (under Baudouin de Courtenay and Scherzl). In 1914 joined the Bolshevist party. Participated in WW I in navy. From 1920 taught at Baku…
TOLMAN, Herbert Cushing. South Scituate (others Norwell, co. Plymouth), MA 4.11.1865 — Nashville, TN 24.11.1923. U.S. Philologist, specialized in Greek and Old Persian. Professor in Nashville. Son of James Tolman (1820–1896), a tack manufacturer, and Mary T. Briggs. Graduated 1884 from Rockland High School. Studies at Yale (A.B. 1888). Ph.D.…
TOLFREY, William. 1778 — Colombo 4.1.1817. British Colonial Officer in India and Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of a colonial official (in India), grew up in England, in 1794 to India.. He came to the island in 1805, after having served in army in India in 1794–1805, participating in…
TOKARZ, Franciszek. Wronowice, Lesser Poland 5.2.1897 — Cracow 5.7.1973. Rev. Polish Catholic Priest and Indologist. Son of Maciej Tokarz.and his wife Antonina Educated in Nowy Sącz and Chyrów, then studies at Jesuit Colleges of Nowy Sącz and Cracow. Ordained priest 1924. In 1934 quitted S.J. Worked as priest in Lwów,…
TOD, James. Islington (London) 20.3.1782 — London 17.11.1835. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer, Indologist and Numismatist in India. Son of James Tod, former owner of an indigo plantation in India, and Mary Heatly, born in London, but educated in Scotland. In 1798 became cadet, with the help of his uncle, 1799…
TISDALL, William St.Clair. Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire 19.2.1859 — East Ashford, Kent 1.12.1928. Rev. British Missionary in Iran and India. Originally from Pembroke in Wales, son of Major William St.Clair Tisdall (1831–1892, from Dublin) and Maryanne Josephine Cecilia Caulfield. In 1862 the family moved to Auckland, New Zealand. Studied theology in…
TIEFFENTHALER, Joseph. Bozen in South Tyrol (now Bolzano in Italy) 27.4.1710 — Lucknow 5.7.1785. S.J. Father. Austrian Missionary, Astronom and Geographer in India. Jesuit novice in 1729 in Landsberg, Bavaria, trained in Germany, beside theology learned mathematics, astronomy and geography. In 1740 to Spain, ordained priest 1743. Still in 1743…