FUMI, Fausto Gherardo

FUMI, Fausto Gherardo. Montepulciano (Tuscany) 17.10.1840 — Genoa 1915. Italian Linguist interested in Sanskrit Literature. Studies at Pisa (under Bardelli, diplome 1862), Florence and Leipzig. First teacher in Liceo di Reggio-Calabria, then taught at University of Palermo in 1887-90 and from 1890 at Genoa, where he became ord. Professor of…

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FUGLSANG, Niels Studsgaard

FUGLSANG, Niels Studsgaard. Holeby, Laaland (Lolland) 19.11.1759 — Slagelse, Sorø 29.12.1832. Danish Priest in India. Son of Herman Fuglsang (1700–1777), a vicar, and Lucie Abelone Studsgaard. After school in Aalborg studied from 1778 philology, medicine and theology at Copenhagen. Ordained priest 1792. Minister of the Danish Lutheran congregation in Trankebar…

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FÜRST, Alfons

FÜRST, Alfons. Sulzdorf/O.-A. Aalen near Ulm 21.2.1892 — 19??. German student of Indology. Son of a farmer, educated in Hüttlingen, at Latinschule in Rottenburg and 1907-11 at Gymnasium of Ehingen. From 1911 studies of philosophy, theology and philology at Tübingen, soon Indology under Garbe. Ph.D. 1915 Tübingen. Publications: Diss. Der…

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FÜHRER, Alois Anton

FÜHRER, Alois Anton. Limburg an der Lahn 26.11.1853 — Binningen near Basel 5.11.1930. German Indologist and Archaeologist in India. Studies of Catholic Theology and Oriental lan­guages at Würzburg. Ordained priest 1877. Ph.D. 1879 Würzburg (apparently under Jolly), soon to India. After a while as Professor of Sanskrit at St. Xavier…

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FUCHS, Rudolf

FUCHS, Rudolf. Heidelberg 19.1.1877 — 1941. German Student of Indology. Son of Lazarus Fuchs, a Professor of Mathematics (1833–1902; originally a Jew from Posen, converted in 1860), and Marie Anders. Educated in Heidelberg and several Gymnasiums in Berlin, where his father had got a chair. Studied at Berlin classical and…

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FRYER, George Edward

FRYER, George Edward. India 25.11.1832 — Kensington, London 1891. British Colonial Officer and Pāli Scholar in India and Burma. Son of Colonel George Fryer (1802–1870), of Madras army. School at Rugby, in the age of 20 joined Indian army, and Sarah Moore. Served eight years in regiment and, after a…

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FRY, A. H.

FRY, Morton Allan Harrison. London, U.K. 13.2.1910 — New York ?.4.1979. U.S. Indologist. Son of Morton Harrison Fry (1888–1971), a banker, and Julia Gladys Angell. The family lived from 1917 in Montclair, NJ. After Montclair High School studies at Princeton (A.B. 1932, A.M. 1933, Ph.D. 1935). In 1935-37 further studies…

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FRYE, John Percival

FRYE, John Percival. London 1807 — Berhampore, West Bengal 16.4.1856. British Colonial Officer in India. Served in Madras Infantry. Lieutenant 1839. From 1844 as Lieutenant Assistant to the Agent in Ganjam, from 1849 Assistant to the Agent, then in 1858 (?) as Lieutenant in charge of the Agency in the…

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FROHNMEYER, L. Johannes

FROHNMEYER, Leonhard (or rather Ludwig?) Johannes. Ludwigsburg (Württemberg) 12.12.1850 — Basel 16.3.1921. Rev. German Missionary and Malayalam scholar. Son of Johann Gottlieb Frohnmeyer (1813–1880) and Luise Henrieke Reuther. After teacher training in Nürtingen worked as teacher in Calw. Became missionary and worked for the Basel Mission in Kerala from 1876 until…

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FRITZSCHE, Richard

FRITZSCHE, Adolf Richard. Leipzig 6.11.1851 — 19??. German Teacher and Indologist. Schoolteacher and Principal in Schneeberg. Son of Johann Gottfried Fritzsche and Agneta Reiz. After gymnasium in Leipzig studies of classics at Leipzig (Ritschl, Curtius), also Indology under Brockhaus. Ph.D. 1873 Leipzig. Teacher at Gymnasium of Chemnitz 1876-88, then principal…

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