JACQUEMONT, Venceslas-Victor. Paris 8.8.1801 — Bombay 7.12.1832. French Botanist and Traveller in India. Born in a wealthy family, father Frédéric-François-Venceslas Jacquemont de Moreau (1757–1836), a high functionary and author of psychological speculations, mother was Rose Laisne. After Lycée Louis-le-Grand (then called (Lycée impérial) he studied natural sciences and medicine at…
JACOBSOHN, Hermann. Lüneburg 30.8.1879 — Marburg a.d. Lahn 27.4.1933. German Linguist (Iranian, IE and Greek Scholar). Professor in Marburg. Son of Moritz Mendel Jacobsohn (1845–1932), a banker, and Betty Heinemann (1859–1934), a non-religious Jewish family. After school in Lüneburg from 1899 studies at Freiburg Br., Berlin and Göttingen. Ph.D. 1904…
JACOBI, Hermann Georg. Köln 11.2.1850 (or 1.2.?) — Bonn 19.10.1937. German Indologist. Professor in Bonn. Son of a steam mill owner, Friedrich Heinrich Otto Jacobi (1803–1880) and Caroline Zeiz. Roman Catholic, educated in Köln. From 1868 studies of mathematics at Berlin, switched soon to Sanskrit and IE. Through Weber he…
JACOB, Philip Whittington. Faversham, Kent 11.1.1804 — Guildford, Surrey 26.12.1889. British Surgeon. Son of Rev. Stephen Long Jacob (1764–1851) and Eliza Susanna Bond (1775–1832), cousin of —> George Le Grand Jacob (1805–1881) and uncle of —> George Adolphus Jacob (1840–1918). Living in Guildford, served four times as mayor. Married 1838…
JACOB, George Le Grand. Glamorganshire near Cardiff 24.4.1805 — London 27.1.1881. Sir. British Colonial Officer and Indologist in India. Fifth son of John Jacob (1765–1840), later known as historian of Channel Islands, and Anna Maria Le Grand (1768–1818), cousin of —> Philip W. Jacob (1804–1889) and uncle of —> Samuel…
JACOB, George Adolphus (not Augustus). Bromsgrove, Worcestershire 21.8.1840 — Redhill, Surrey 9.4.1918. British Colonial Officer and Indologist in India. Colonel, in India 1857-90. Son of Rev. George Andrew Jacob. D.D. (1807–1896) and Susanna Pidsley (1807–1896), nephew of —> Philip Wh. Jacob (1804–1889), of a well-known family of colonial servants and…
JACOB, Georg. Königsberg 26.5.1862 — Kiel 4.7.1937. German Oriental (Arabic and Turkish) scholar also interested in India. Lost early his father and was raised by his mother, Julie Therese Jacob (née Rossbach). After gymnasium in Königsberg he started as a student of theology, but soon turned into Oriental philology. Studies…
JACKSON, Arthur Mason Tippetts. 30.12.1866 — Nasik 21.9.1909. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Son of Mason Jackson (1820–1903) and Lucy Berriman Tippets. M.A. Oxford. Served in the I.C.S. as District Collector in Bombay Presidency, finally chief magitrate of Nasik. Murdered, shot by a seditious Brahman. Bound by his…
JACKSON, Abraham Valentine Williams. New York City 9.2.1862 — New York City 8.8.1937. U.S. Indo-Iranian scholar. Professor in New York. Son of David Sherwood Jackson (1837–1872), a merchant, and his wife Elizabeth. Educated in New York. From 1879 studies at Columbia College and University, began with classics and Anglo-Saxon, but…
IVANOVSKIJ, Aleksej Osipovič. Gdov 8(20).3.1863 — 25.1.(7.2.)1903. Russian Sinologist, Mongolian and Tibetan Scholar. Professor in St.Petersburg. Born in the old nobility of Herson governement, educated in St.Petersburg. From 1881 studies of Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan at Oriental Faculty of St.Petersburg University. Student of Vasil’ev, also listened to Pozdneev, Minaev,…