SCHOENER, August Clemens. Bieswang, Bavaria 21.11.1872 — after 1940. German Missionary in South India. After theology studies in 1890-94 at Munich and Erlangen worked as vicar in Passau in 1894-96. In 1896 left for Trankebar (Tharangambadi), from 1898 worked in Negapatam (Nagapattinam), Mayavaram (Mayiladuthurai) and Chingleput, until 1903. Then quitted the…
SCHNEIDER, Karl. Brückrachdorf, Kr. Neuwied 18.4.1912 — Münster 26.12.1998. German Linguist, mainly Anglist and Germanist, but in his early career wrote on IE and Tocharian. Professor in Münster. Studies of English, German, comparative linguistics, and philosophy in 1932-36 at Giessen, Ph.D. 1936 in comparative linguistics. Then two years as German…
SCHMID, Toni (Antonia Elisabeth Magdalena). Fischamend near Vienna 25.9.1897 — Uppsala 16.12.1972. Austrian Scholar of Religious History and Tibetan Iconography in Sweden. Swedish citizen 1927. The only child of a wealthy mill-owner, Georg Josef Leander Schmid, and Antonia Maria Lindemmer. School and studies in Vienna, one year (1921) in Sweden. Dr.ph.…
SCHMID, Ludwig Bernhard Ehregott. Lobeda (now part of Jena) 20.3.1788 — Calicut (Kozhikode) 20.10.1857. Rev. German Missionary in South India. Son of Rev. Rudolf Ludwig Schmid and his wife (d. 1806), brother of —> Deocar Schmid (1791–1828), also a missionary. After gymnasium in Naumburg studied theology 1807-09 at Jena. Worked as tutor and…
SCHANZ, Hugo. Schöneck, Vogtland 8.11.1834 — Bobenneukirchen, Vogtland 30.1.1892. German Missionary in South India. Son of Sigismund Robert Schanz (d. 1849), a lawyer and mayor. School in Schöneck and 1848-53 in Meissen. From 1853 studies of Theology at Leipzig. Ordained in 1861 in Leipzig and left for India. Worked in…
SCHAENZLIN, Gottlieb L. (Schänzlin, later Schanzlin). Pfullingen near Reutlingen 25.5.1877 — Springfield, Clark, Ohio 27.9.1963. Rev. German Methodist Missionary in India, then in the U.S.A. Son of Johann Jakob Schaenzlin. M.A. 1921 Johns Hopkins, in Indology. From 1907 worked in Bengal, from 1914 he was Principal of Collins Institute and…
SCHAEFFER, Heinrich August Eduard. Erfurt 27.6.1842 — Trankebar 30.1.1890. Rev. German Missionary in India. Son of Daniel Gottfried Carl Schaeffer (1808–1884) and Maria Christiana Eilhardt (1807–1849). After mission school studied theology at Leipzig. In 1864 went to India, worked mainly in Trankebar, finally as Principal of Evangelical Lutheran Central High School.…
SANDEGREN, Johannes Teodor Hjalmar. Madurai 20.11.1883 — Uppsala 15.11.1962. Swedish Missionary in South India. Son of Carl Jacob Sandegren (1841–1929), also a missionary in South India (since 1869), and Theodore Kremmer, the daughter of a German missionary. In 1894 sent to Sweden for education, matriculated from Uppsala 1901. In 1906…
SAMMAN, Herbert Frederick. 1871 — 1940. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry Samman (b. 1821) and Georgina Ann. Educated in Stratford-on-Avon, studies at Cambridge (Emanuel College), passed I.C.S. examination in 1890. In 1892-1919 served in Bengal (in the 1890s briefly in Assam). In 1922-35 Lecturer in Bengali at…
RUNKLE, Catharine Bird. Dedham, Norfolk, MA 7.2.1863 — 24.12.1943. U.S. Student of Sanskrit. Daughter of John Daniel Runkle (1822–1902) and Catharine Robbins. Studied from 1886 at Harvard Annex for women (now Radcliffe College), learned Sanskrit under Lanman. In 1922 living in Richmond, MA, unmarried. Buried (and possibly died) in Dorchester, co.…