EGGERS, Alexander Heinrich. Reval (Tallinn) 3.4.1864 (others 1867) — Karlshorst (Berlin) 13.6.1937. German (of Estonia) Schoolteacher, a former Student of Indology. Son of businessman Alexander Viktor Eggers (1828–1877) and Marie Hiekisch. Educated at Government Gymnasium in Reval (Tallinn) 1880-85. From 1885 studies of medicine and in 1886-91 of Comparative Grammar…
EGGERMONT, Pierre Herman Leonard. Manado, Celebes 4.2.1914 — Linden, Belgium 11.4.1995. Dutch Indologist and Classical Scholar. Son of a government agent in Indonesia, Pierre August Leonard Eggermont (1886–1964), and Cornelia Johanna Margaretha van Houten. After school in Surabaya came to the Netherlands in 1931 and began studies of Classics, Sanskrit…
EGGELING, Hans Julius. Hecklingen bei Staßfurt (Harz) 12.7.1842 — Witten (Westfalen) 13.3.1918. German Indologist. Professor in Edinburgh. Son of landowner Sebastian Eggeling (1808–1842) and Elisabeth Müller. After Gymnasium in Bernburg, studies of classical philology and Sanskrit at Breslau and Berlin. In Breslau he became acquainted with Rhys Davids (they were…
EELSINGH, Herman Frederik. Tienhoven (Zuid-Holland) 17.11.1882 — Utrecht 1909 or Groningen 29.9.1908. Dutch Indologist. Son of Jan Harmannus Haverbult Eelsingh and Elisabeth Edzes. Student of Caland at Utrecht, Ph.D. there 1908. Died young. Publications: Diss. Ṣaḍviṁśabrāhmaṇaṁ vijñāpanabhāṣyasahitam. Het Ṣaḍviṁśabrāhmaṇa van de Sāmaveda uitgegeven met een inleiding, de op naam van…
EDWARDS, James Fairbrother. Bolton, Lancastershire 25.3.1875 — Auburndale, Polk County, Florida 5.12.1951. Rev. British Missionary and Indologist, especially a Marathi Scholar. Son of Isaac Edwards and Sarah Brown. Educated at Wesleyan Methodist Theological College in Handsworth, Birmingham, then 8 years in charge of churches in England. Arrived in India in…
EDMAN, Lars. Kalf (Älfsborg län) 22.11.1824 — 27.5.1921. Swedish Oriental Scholar and Linguist (Germanic), also interested in Sanskrit. Son of a farmer, educated in Gothenburg. From 1847 studies at Uppsala, fil.kand. (Ph.D.) 1857. From 1857 Docent (PD) i österländska språken (Oriental languages) at Uppsala, from 1863 adjunkt (Associate Professor) of…
EDGREN, August Hjalmar. Östanås, Älvsbacka, Värmland 18.10.1840 — Djursholm, near Stockholm 9.12.1903. Swedish Indologist and Linguist, partly in the U.S.A. Professor in Lincoln. Son of Axel Edgren (1813–1864), an estate owner from the middle of Sweden, and Mathilda Berger. School 1849-51 in Karlstad and 1854-57 in Stockholm, where he matriculated…
EDGERTON, Franklin. Lemars, Iowa 24.7.1885 — Laramie, Wyoming 7.12.1963. U.S. Indologist. Professor in New Haven. Son of a civil servant, Charles Eugene Edgerton (1861–1932), and Annie Benedict White, his younger brothers were the lawyer Henry White Edgerton (1888–1970) and the Egyptologist William Franklin Edgerton (1893–1970). Though born in the West,…
EDELBERG, Johan Lorentz Lennart Fraas. Copenhagen 19.5.1915 — Ribe near Esbjerg 11.11.1981. Danish Biologist and Ethnologist, Specialist of Nuristan (Afghanistan). Son of chief engineer (overingeniør) Johannes Ferdinand Edelberg (1870–1949) and Johanne Fraas (1877–1951), grew up in Copenhagen. Studied briefly theology, but then made cand.mag 1943 in natural history and geography.…
ECKSTEIN, Ferdinand d’. Copenhagen 1.9.1790 — Paris 22. or 25.11.1862 (when 71). Baron. French Historian, of Danish/German Origin. Details of his origin are unclear, the title of nobility probably doubtful. “Je ne desire pas me faire l’écho de rumeurs piquantes sur son origine et sa jeunesse” (Mohl). He is said…