GUMILËV, Lev Nikolaevič. Carskoe Selo 18.9.(1.10.)1912 — St.Petersburg 15.6.1992. Russian Historian of Central Asia, Archaeologist and geographer, also writer and translator. Son of Nikolaj Stepanovič G. (d. 1921) and Anna Ahmatova (1889–1966), both well-known poets who divorced when he was still a child. Because of his parents he was not…
GULJAMOVA, Rano Hodžiakbarovna. Tashkent 20.1.1940 — 11.11.1985. Uzbekistanian Indologist (Hindi). Daughter of an official. Graduated 1962 Tashkent. Kand. filol. nauk 1976. In 1962-85 taught at Oriental Faculty, Tashkent University. Publications: Kand.diss. Višnu Prabhakar – prozaik i dramaturg. Manuscript of 168 p. M. 1976. – “Nekotorye idejno-hudož. osobennosti romana Višnu Prabhakara ‘Nišikant’”,…
GULIK, Robert Hans van. Zutphen, Guelderland 9.8.1910 — the Hague 24.9.1967. Dutch Sinologist, Diplomat and Author, began his career as an Indologist. Son of Willem van G., a physician serving in colonial army, and Bertha de Ruiter, spent the years 1914-23 in Surabaya and Batavia (Jakarta) in Java. Then school…
GUIEYSSE, Georges. Paris 1.1.1869 — 17.5.1889. French Indologist. Son of Eugène G. (d. 1889), a physician, sister’s son to the engineer-Egyptologist Paul G. (1841–1914). Educated at Lycée Henri IV, then studies of Indology and IE under S. Lévi, Bréal, Bergaigne, de Saussure, and Darmesteter. One of the first students of…
GUETH, Anton Walter Florus (Nyānatiloka Mahāthera). Wiesbaden 19.2.1878 — Colombo/Ceylon 28.5.1957. German Bauddha and Buddhist scholar in Sri Lanka. Son of Anton G., principal of gymnasium, and Paula Auffahrt, the family was Roman Catholic. School and gymnasium in Wiesbaden. In 1897 briefly at monastery, Maria Laach. Studies of music and…
GUERRINI BIONE, Pia. Ravenna 1884 — Bologna 1971. Italian Student of Indology. In 1903-07 studies at Scuola Normale Superieure, Pisa. Dr.phil. Living in Ravenna (1910). Publications: Edited: Mādhavānalakāmandakandalākathā. 117 p. Annali della Scuola normale 21. Pisa 1908. – “Silenzi epici (Aiace, Bidone, Paolo)”, A Vittorio Cian i suoi scolari dell’…
GUÉRINOT, Armand Albert. Messon (Aube) 25.11.1872 — 1940?. French Indologist. Studied under Regnaud at Lyon, Ph.D. there 1900. Apparently also dr.med. Further studies at Bonn under Jacobi. In 1909 he was “correcteur pour la typographie orientale” in Imprimérie nationale, in 1924 no longer a member of Société asiatique. Mainly a…
GÜNTERT, Hermann Georg Konrad. Worms 5.11.1886 — Heidelberg 23.4.1948. German IE scholar. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of a Roman Catholic merchant and Protestant mother of Huguenot background, himself followed mother. Educated in Weinheim and, after father’s death in 1897, in Worms. In school he learned Hebrew and privately Sanskrit. Matriculated…
GUBLER(-ITEN), Theophil. 1874 — 1954. Swiss Teacher, former Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1902/03 Basel, under Wackernagel. Taught Latin, Greek, history, geography and gymnastics at gymnasium in Basel 1906-34. Married Lina Iten, at least one child. Publications: diss. Die Patronymica im Alt-Indischen. 108 p. Göttingen 1903. – Works not related to…
GRÜNWEDEL, Albert. Munich 31.7.1856 — Lenggries bei Bad Tölz, Bavaria 28.10. (or 7.11.?) 1935. German Indologist, Tibetologist, Archaeologist and Art Historian. Museum Director in Berlin. Son of Karl Gr., a painter and lithograph, and Fanny La Roche, educated at Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich. In 1876-79 studied at Munich classical philology and…