CROOKE, William. Macroom, co. Cork 6.8.1848 — Cheltenham, Gloucestershire 25.10.1923. British (Irish) Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Eldest son of Warren Crooke (1814–1896), M.D., of an originally English family long resident in Ireland, and Elizabeth Pyne Lindsey. Educated at the grammar school in Tipperary, studied at Trinity College in…
COXE, William Henry. 1840 — 18.12.1869, when 29. British Classical Scholar. The eldest son of Henry Octavius Coxe (1811–1881), the Librarian of Bodleiana, and Charlotte Esther Turner (1804–1895). From 1858 studies of Classics and Sanskrit at Balliol College, Oxford. Characterised as a Sanskrit scholar, but from 1861 worked in British…
COX, Arthur Ditmas. 21.3.1870 — Bournemouth (?) 3.5.1939. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of Henry William Cox, of Madras army, and Lucy Emma Halliday. Served in the Punjab (1917). Married with Evelyn (1875–1944), one son. Publications: Notes on Pushtu Grammar. 12+84+70 p. L. 1911. Sources: Not in Br.…
COWGILL, Warren Crawford. Crangeville, Idaho 19.12.1929 — New Haven 20.6.1985. U.S. IE Linguist. Professor at Yale. Son of George Dewey Cowgill (1898–1975) and Ruby Eugenia Smith. Educated at Stanford (B.A. 1952 in classics, under H. Fraenkel) and, now studying IE and linguistics under Tedesco, Thieme et al., at Yale (M.A.…
COWELL, Edward Byles. Ipswich 23.1.1826 — Cambridge 9.2.1903. British Indologist. Professor in Cambridge. In 1856-64 in India. Son of Charles Cowell (a merchant, d. 1842) and Marianne Byles. Educated in Ipswich, as a schoolboy already attracted to Sir William Jones’ Persian grammar. After the school he followed his late father…
COUVREUR, Walter. Antwerpen 25.7.1914 — Edegem, Prov. Antwerpen 17.9.1996. Belgian Linguist and Scholar of Tocharian. After school in Antwerpen studies at Leuven, also under Sieg at Göttingen. Ph.D. Leuven 1936 in Oriental languages and 1938 in Classics. In 1938-44 researcher of Nationaal Fonds van Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek in Brussels. From 1945…
COURTILLIER, Gaston. Buoy-Luxembourg (Aube) 20.4.1877 — ?.12.1933. French Indologist. From 1897 student of Lévi and Finot at É.P.H.É. In 1912 apparently teacher in Bastia, Corsica. In the early 1920s he was Professor at the lycée of Mulhouse, then at Lycée Fustel de Coulanges in Strasbourg and in 1924-34 also Chargé…
COURBIN, Henri. 1??? — ????. French Teacher interested in Sanskrit. In 1931 teacher in a secondary school (lycée de Lyon) in Paris. Both Edgerton (Language 8, 1932, 304) and Rylands (BSOS 6:4, 1932, 1029) found the grammar rather acceptable as elementary book. Publications: Grammaire élémentaire du sanscrit classique. 1-2. 128+119…
COULSON, Michael. 1936 — 1975. British Indologist. Educated at St.Paul’s School in London, studies at Trinity College, Oxford (B.A.). D.Phil. 1966 Oxford. Then in 196?-72 Lecturer and Head of Sanskrit Department at University of Edinburgh. Paul Dundas (1952–2023) was his student. Publications: Diss. manuscript 1966, publ. as A critical edition…
COTTON, Gérard. 1??? — 19??. Belgian Author, Classical Scholar and Indologist. Ph.D. 1930, in Sanskrit student of Mansion. At the university of Liège. Publications: Meghaduta, le Nuage messenger. Mons 1923. – “La Kena Upaniṣad”, Le Muséon 44, 1931, 343-357; “La revanche du Brahman”, Mélanges de philologie orientale publiés à l’occasion du…