ZACHARIAE, Theodor Victor Hugo. Großkmehlen bei Liebenwerda, Brandenburg 3.2.1851 — Halle 5.5.1934. German Indologist. Professor in Halle. Son of Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal (1812–1894), a specialist of Byzantine law and second generation nobleman. Educated 1864-70 at the same school in Pforta as Nietzsche, Deussen, and the only 2 years…
YATES, William. Loughborough, Leicestershire 15.12.1792 — on sea 3.7.1845. Rev. British Missionary and Indologist in India. Son of elder William Yates, a Baptist shoemaker, and his wife Ann, went to school in Leicestershire. He intended to follow in his father’s profession, but became engaged in religion and started in the…
XAVIER, Jerónimo (J. Javier, Hieronymus Xaverius, Jerónimo de Ezpeleta y Goñi). Buro, Diocese of Pamplona, Navarra 1549 — Goa 27.6.1617. Father. S.J. Spanish Missionary in India. Grand-nephew of —> Francisco Xavier (1506–1552), son of Miguel de Ezpeleta y Azpilcueta and Leonor Goñiy de la Torre. Born in his father’s castle.…
OVSJANIKO-KULIKOVSKIJ, Dmitrij Nikolaevič (Ukr. Dmitro Mikolajovič O.-K.). Kahovka, Herson oblast 23.1.(4.2.)1853 — Odessa 9.10.1920. Ukrainian Linguist, Indologist and Literary Critic. Professor in Harkiv (Kharkiv), Academician in St.Petersburg. Born in a noble family, son of Nikolaj Nikolaevič Ovsjaniko-Kulikovskij and Varvara Nikolaevna Rud’. After gymnasium in Simferopol studies of Sanskrit and linguistics…
OUSELEY, Joseph Walker Jasper. Limerick 21.6.1800 — 21.11.1889. British (Anglo-Irish) Colonial Officer and Oriental Scholar in India. Colonel. Son of Major Ralph Ouseley (1739–1803) and Mary Collins. He was half-brother of the Persian scholar Sir William Ouseley (1767–1842), whose son was —> John Ralph Ouseley (1801–1850), and of diplomat Sir…
OTTO, Rudolf Louis Karl. Peine, Hannover 25.9.1869 — Marburg 6.3.1937. German Lutheran Theologian and Scholar of Religion. Professor in Marburg. Son of Friedrich Wilhelm Otto (1809–1882), a factory owner, and Katharine Karoline Henriette Sophie Reupke (1818–1911), lost his father in the age of 12. Matriculated 1888 from Hildesheim, studied theology…
OTRĘBSKI, Jan Szczepan. Silica, Silesia 8.12.1889 — Poznań 25.4.1971. Polish IE and Balto-Slavic Scholar. Professor in Wilno (Vilnius) and Poznań. Son of Stanisław Otrębski and Helena Gasińska. Educated in Kielce, studies at Warsaw (briefly medicine, after few months Slavic, graduated 1913) and Leipzig (Windisch, Leskien and Brugmann). During WW I…
OSTHOFF, Caspar Carl Heinrich Gottfried Emil Franz Hermann. Billmerich bei Unna, Westfalen 18.4.1847 — Heidelberg 7.5.1907. German IE Scholar. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of Franz Osthoff, an estate owner, and Lisette Theodore Birnberg. Gymnasium in Gütersloh. Studies of Classics and Sanskrit at Bonn (Gildemeister), then at Tübingen (Roth) and Berlin…
OSTER, Ludwig. Mannheim 27.3.1888 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Son of postmaster, Geh. Oberpostrat Ludwig Oster After school in Berlin, gymnasium 1897-1901 in Erfurt and 1901-05 Konstanz. In 1905-08 studies at Berlin, of classical philology, linguistics and especially Indology under Pischel, after Pischel’s death continued at Heidelberg under Bartholomae…
OSSOWSKI, Juliusz Jan. Danzig (Gdansk) 4.11.1855 — Königsberg 4.2.1882. Polish Student of Indo-Iranian Linguistics. Son of Henryk Ossowski (d. 1868), a smith, and Marianna Skibińska. After gymnasium in Chełmnie began 1875 studies at Breslau: Classics, German and Sanskrit (Stenzler). In 1877 interrupted because of health problems. After a while as…