GREENOUGH, James Bradstreet. Portland, Maine 4.5.1833 — Cambridge, MA 11.10.1901. U.S. Classical Scholar and Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Professor at Harvard. Son of James Greenough (1802–1885) and his wife Catharine, the family moved soon to Boston. After Boston Latin School graduated A.B. in 1856 from Harvard College. Studied one year…
GREAVES, Edwin. London 5.12.1854 — Melvern 18.9.1941. British Missionary in India. Educated in Islington and Western College. Served London Missionary Society in N.W.P. Principal of the society’s college in Benares, then of Missionary Language School in Lucknow, from 1882 at the new station in Kachwa, Mirzapur, finally in Calcutta. Retired…
GRAY, Louis Herbert. Newark, NJ 10.4.1875 — New York 18.8.1955. U.S. Indologist, Iranian Scholar and Linguist. Professor in New York. Son of Thomas J. Gray and Anna Elizabeth Earl. Studies at Princeton (A.B. 1896) and Columbia (A.M. 1898, Ph.D. 1900, under A. V. Williams Jackson). In 1900-02 chief cataloguer and…
GRAY, James. 1849 — 1905. British Indologist (Pāli Scholar) in Burma. From 1872 teacher at Akyab school under H. D. Gray, possibly his father, later on schoolmaster in Moulmein (1878). Then taught many years as Professor of Pāli at Rangoon High School. No further details found. Publications: First lessons in…
GRAUL, Karl Friedrich Leberecht. Wörlitz bei Dessau 6.2.1814 — Erlangen 10.11.1864. German Indologist (Tamil Scholar) and Lutheran Missionary. Son of Gottfried Graul (d. 1824), a weaver, and Louise Haberkorn (1774–1838), educated at gymnasium in Zerbst and Dessau. From 1834 studies of theology at Leipzig, then visited Italy as a tutor…
GRASSMANN, Hermann Günther. Stettin (now Szczecin) 15.4.1809 — Stettin 26.9.1877. German Indologist and Mathematician. Schoolteacher in Stettin. Son of Justus Günther Grassmann (1779–1852) a teacher of mathematics, and Johanne Fredericke Louise Medenwaldt, educated in Stettin. From 1827 studies of theology at Berlin under Schleiermacher, also philology under Böckh and privately…
GRASBERGER, Lorenz (Laurentius). Grosshartpennig, Upper Bavaria 9.6.1830 — Würzburg 23.1.1903. German Classical Philologist interested in Sanskrit. Studies of classical philology at Munich. Ph.D. 1856 Munich (diss. on Lucretius). From 1856 worked as schoolteacher in Würzburg. PD 1860 Würzburg (hab.diss. on Elder Pliny). From 1864 ao., 1868 ord. Professor at Würzburg.…
GRANT-DUFF, James Cunningham (born James Grant). Banff, Aberdeenshire 8.7.1789 — Fife 23.9.1858. British (Scots) Colonial Officer and Historian in India. Son of John Grant (1736–1799) and Margaret Duff (1757–1824), educated at Marischal College in Aberdeen. Joined the E.I.C.’s military service in Bombay in 1805. He “was at the storming of…
GRANDJEAN, J.-M. 18?? — 1???. French Linguist. Student of Regnaud at Lyon (still there 1888). Maxime Ravel writes to me that the BNF Catalogue identifies him as Jean-Marie Grandjean (born Lyon 31.7.1855), a physician who wrote about medical subjects (1892), but he finds this, probably rightly, as suspect, possibly a…
GRAEFE, Christian-Friedrich (von) (Gräfe, Russian Fëdor Bogdanovič Grefe, Latin Fredericus Graefius). Chemnitz 1.7.1780 — St.Petersburg 12.12.1851. German Linguist in Russia. Son of Johann Gotthelf Graefe (1750–1821), a minister, and his wife Christine Friederike (who died two days after his birth). After Lyceum in Chemnitz studied from 1796 theology and Greek…