GAASTRA, Dieuke

GAASTRA, Dieuke. Dordrecht 18?? — 19??. Mrs. Dutch Indologist. Student of Gallée and Caland. Ph.D. 1906 Utrecht. One D. Gaastra married Arij Roest Crollius. She was born in Workum 7.8.1871 as the daughter of Siemon Gaastra and Catharina Visser, married there 1895 and died in the Hague 9.7.1936. They were…

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GAÁL, László

GAÁL, László. Karcag 22.1.1891 — Karcag 13.6.1964. Hungarian Classical and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Debrecen. Son of László Gal and Zuzsanna Borsos. After gymnasium in Karsag studies of classical and Oriental languages at Kolozsvár University (under Gy. Németh and J. Csengeri), Ph.D. there 1913. Originally he was mainly a classical…

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FURNIKA, Vitalij Petrovič

FURNIKA, Vitalij Petrovič. Dovžanka near Ternopil, western Ukraine 14.10.1940 — 16.4.1993. Ukrainian Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Son of a farmer. From 1965 studies in Leningrad (Rudin) and 1969-70 in Madras. Graduated 1970 from Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1979. From 1975 editor of the Progress and from 1882-89 of the Raduga, then…

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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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