VILLE, Frans de. 1??? — 19??. Belgian Schoolteacher interested in Indology. Called Professor, probably ar a school. Perhaps he is the same F. de Ville whom myheritage.com mentions as born in Zandbergen 31.1.1877 and married with Maria Finantia Lafourt. Publications: Transl. Çakuntalâ. 94 p. Coll. Lebégue 3:31. Bruxelles 1943; Une…
VÉRTESY, Desző. Pásztó 24.6.1881 — Budapest 12.7.1917. Hungarian Greek and Sanskrit Philologist. Son of Gyula Vértesy, an advocate, and Izabella Patzek, educated in Debrecen and Budapest. Studies at Budapest, Ph.D. 1902. Schoolteacher in Budapest. Publications: Diss. on Peleus-Thetis myth, 1902 (in Hungarian); translated Theocritus. – Translated excerpts from the Hitopadeśa,…
VENIS, Arthur (born Arthur Venis Lazarus). Calcutta 4.10.1857 — Uttarkhand 5.6.1918. British (Anglo-Indian) Educator and Indologist in India. Professor in Varanasi and Allahabad. Son of Edward John Lazarus, a converted Jew with Indian background, a physician also interested in Sanskrit. After studies at Edinburgh and Oxford (Balliol College, B.A. 1878,…
VAUGHAN, John Luther. Leicester St. Martin 6.3.1820 — Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent 2.1.1911. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Rev. Edward Thomas Vaughan (1777–1829) and Agnes Pares (1785–1878), educated at Rugby. Joined Indian Army in 1840, served in Maharajpur. In 1855 in Crimea. In 1857 commanded a Field…
VASIL’EV, Vasilij Pavlovič (Wassilieff). Nižni-Novgorod 20.2.(4.3.)1818 — St.Petersburg 27.4.1900. Russian Sinologist and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in St.Petersburg. Son of a minor civil servant. After school in Nižnij-Novgorod he studied from 1834 Tatar and Mongolian at Kazan University (under Èrdman, Kowalewski, et al.), Kand. 1837. Now studied Chinese under Archimandrite Daniil. Learned…
VASCONCELOS (DE) ABREU, Guilherme Augusto (de). Coimbra 20.5.1842 — Lisbon 1.2.1907. Portuguese Indologist. Professor in Lisbon. Son of Victor Madail de Abreu (1811–1868), an official and liberal activist, and Guilhermina de Vasconcellos Abreu. School in Coimbra and 1854-56 in Porto, then some time in Brazil, also visited India. Then studied then…
VALVANNE, Hugo (until 1906 H. Wegelius). Pietarsaari 18.7.1894 — Funen, Denmark 25.7.1961. Finnish Student of Indology and Diplomatist. Son of Henrik Eliel Wegelius (1853–1933), a vicar, and Hanna Häggman, brother of theosophist author Väinö Valvanne (1887–1919). Matriculated from Porin lyseo in 1912. Studied Indology (under Reuter) and other subjects at…
VALLAURI, Mario. Viareggio (Lucca) 31.7.1887 — Dronero (Cuneo) 19.9.1964. Italian Indologist. Professor in Turin. Born in an old Piemontese family, son of Giuseppe Vallauri (1840–1902) and Maddalena Pronetti. Studied Indology at Naples under Kerbaker(degree 1911). Further studies in 1912 at Florence under Pavolini and 1913-14 at Würzburg under Jolly, concentrating…
URAY, Géza. Budapest 16.8.1921 — Vienna 17.7.1991. Hungarian Tibetan Scholar. Professor in Budapest. Reluctantly following his father’s wish he enrolled the Military Academy in 1939, but in 1940 moved to university. First studied law, from 1942 Tibetan under Ligeti. In 1944 forced to take military service. In 1947 continued his…
UNKRIG, Wilhelm Alexander. Köslin, Pomerania (now Koszalin in Poland) 1883 — Traisa near Darmstadt 24.6.1956. German Mongolian and Lamaist Scholar. Son of a crofter. From 1908 he was trained for missionary work among the Mongols at Religious Academy in Kazan and in 1912 became Russian Orthodox priest. The World War…