AL-GEORGE, Sergiu Anatol. Tărgu Mureş 13.9.1922 — Bucharest 10.11.1981. Romanian Indologist. Born in Transylvania, son of Vasile Al-George (1895–1960), a lawyer and poet, and Antonina Donos. Educated at military high school in Tărgu Mureş and Chișinău, then in a civil high school in Bucharest From 1941 studied medicine at Bucharest…
ALEXANDER, James Edward. Stirling 16.10.1803 — Ryde, Isle of Wight 2.4.1885. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of banker Edward Alexander and Catherine Glas. Educated at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Sandhurst. In 1821 joined Madras cavalry. In February 1824 he visited the Ajanta Caves (he was not the first,…
ALEMANY Y BOLUFER, José. Cullera near Valencia 1.7.1866 — Madrid 26.10.1934. Spanish Linguist, translator of Sanskrit Texts. Born in a humble family he could only after many hardships begin his education in Valencia, and had again to interrupt it and work in his native village. He went on studying during…
ALEKSANDROV, F. G. 18?? — 19??. Russian (Ukrainian?) Indologist or IE Scholar? He worked at Odessa University, but in 1922 was exiled as a member of KD Party and disappears. Publications: In Russian: “K skloneniju indoevropejskih osnov na -e/o v sanskritskom narečii drevneindijskogo”, Učenye zapiski vysšej školy g. Odessy 2…
ALBRIGHT, Ruth Norton (née Ruth Norton). Elizabeth, Union County NJ 1.6.1892 — Baltimore 1.10.1979. U.S. Indologist. Daughter of Paul Thornley Norton and Caroline Bain. Student of Bloomfield at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Ph.D. 1921 Johns Hopkins. Right after Ph.D., in 1921, she married her fellow-student, the soon well-known Semitic scholar…
AICHELE, Walter Gustav Paul. Höhefeld, Wertheim 27.1.1889 — Hamburg 1.5.1971. German Indonesian and Gipsy Scholar. Ph.D. 1915 Heidelberg, later Indonesian studies under Otto Dempwolff at Hamburg. PD 1946 Hamburg, from 1949-54 apl. Professor and from 1969 ord. of Indonesian languages there. Publications: With M. Block: Zigeunermärchen. 19+344 p. Die Märchen…
AHVLEDIANI, Georgij Saridanovič. Leykumi, Kutaisskij rajon 1.(13.)4.1887 — Tbilisi 9.7.1973. Georgian Indo-Iranian Scholar and Linguist. Son of a farm owner. Graduated 1914 from Harkov University (Kharkiv). Taught Linguistics at Tbilisi University from 1918, Professor from 1932. Corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Science 1939, full member of the Georgian…
AGERSCHOU, Agnes Margrethe. Rudkøbing, Langeland 8.5.1912 — 12.8.1968. Danish Assistant of the C.P.D. Daughter of the bankfuldmægtig (?) Vilhelm Kristian Agerschou and Kristina Maria Sand Valborg Rinder. Matriculated from Randers 1930, M.A. 1940 in Nordic philology at Copenhagen. Assistant of the C.P.D. in 1940-49. Married 1934 Martinus Simonsen (1910–1958, divorce…
ADICEAM, Marguerite E. (née Prost). Bourg 22.7.1911 — Pondicherry 21.10.1989. Mme. French Indologist. Studied classics at Lyon, later also Sanskrit. In 1946-54 teacher at French college in Pondicherry. Back in France student of Filliozat. In 1966-71 scientific member of E.F.E.O. in Pondicherry, then retired. Specialist of Hindu religion, especially of…
ADAM, Matthew Thomson. 17?? — 18??. Rev. British Priest in India and Author of Books on Hindi/Urdu. Ordained 1819, arrived in 1820 at Calcutta with his wife and soon proceeded to Benares, working for London Missionary Society as teacher at Hindu College. He was a keen student of Hindi. In…