STEGMILLER, Frumentius. Bavaria 16.6.1880 — 2.2.1929. S.D.S. Father. German Catholic Missionary in India. Entered Salvatorian order in 1894, ordained priest in 1903. In 1906-11 worked in Assam (now Meghalaya). Back in Germany, served in WW I as priest in Western Front. Publications: “Aus dem religiösen Leben der Khasi”, Anthropos 16-17, 1921-22,…
STANLEY, Patricia Cotman. Morton, Texas 5.9.1933 — 5.3.2003. U.S. Linguist. Daughter of John Pat Cotman and Pauline Martin. Studies at Chicago (B.A. 1966) and Austin, one year in India. Ph.D. 1972 University of Texas, Austin. Taught at Washington State University, University of Łódź in Poland (1976-78), University of Texas at…
SOKOLOVA, Valentina Stepanovna. Kronštadt 11.(24.)2.1916 — Emel’janovo, Tverskaja obl. 7.9.1993. Russian Iranian Scholar. Daughter of a farmer. Graduated 1938 from Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1944. Dr. filol. n. 1955. Docent 1947. From 1939 taught at Leningrad University, from 1941 naučnyj sotrudnik at Instituta jazykoznanija, Leningrad (AN SSSR), 1950 staršij n.…
SLATER, Gilbert. Plymouth 27.8.1864 — Oxford 8.3.1938. British Economist and Social Reformer. Son of a school teacher, Daniel Slater. Studied economics (M.A.), one of the first doctors of the London School of Economics. In 1909-15 Principal of Ruskin College in Oxford. From 1915 the first Professor of economics at Madras…
SEDDON, Felix John Vaughan. Pendleton, Lancashire 1798 — Murshidabad 25.11.1865.British Oriental Scholar. Son of attorney William S. (1757–1808) and Penelope Watson (1761–1826), educated in Manchester. In 1815 left for India. From 1820 Registrar of Rangpur, 1824-25 accompanied the army in Burmese war as translator, knew Assamese and Manipuri, also Persian and…
SEBEOK, Thomas Albert (Hungarian Tamás Sebők). Budapest 9.11.1920 — Bloomington 21.12.2001. U.S. (born Hungarian) Linguist and Semiotician. Son of Dezső Sebők and Vera Perlmann. After school in Budapest moved to the U.S.A. when 17, naturalized 1944. B.A. 1941 University of Chicago. M.A. 1943 Princeton, in anthropological linguistics (under R. Jakobson).…
SCOTT WARING, Edward Warren Hastings. England 1783 — India 1821. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Major John Scott Waring (1747–1819) and Elizabeth Blackrie (1745–1796), nephew of —> Jonathan Scott. In Bengal Civil Service, worked in Bundelkhand. “Collector at Futteyghur.” From 1801 Assistant Professor of Hindustani at Fort William…
SCHWARZ, Franz Ferdinand. Graz 26.12.1934 — Graz 8.5.2001. Austrian Classical Scholar interested in Indology. Professor in Graz. Studied at Graz Classical Philology, Comparative Linguistics and Indology (under Brandenstein). Ph.D. 1961. Worked as schoolteacher of Latin at a gymnasium in Graz. Further studies in 1971-72 at Center for Hellenic Studies in…
SCHLERATH, Bernfried. Leipzig 15.5.1924 — Berlin 30.5.2003. German Indo-Iranian Scholar. The only child of literary editor Dr. Franz Schlerath and Karoline Suter, in 1928 the family moved to Frankfurt. Matriculated 1943, briefly student at Frankfurt, in 1944-45 in the army as wireless operator. Studies of IE, Iranian and Indology at…
SCHIMMEL, Annemarie. Erfurt 7.4.1922 — Bonn 26.1.2003. German Oriental Scholar in the U.S.A., a Specialist of Islamic South Asia. Professor in Bonn and Harvard. Daughter of post official Paul Schimmel (1889–1945) and Anna Ulfers, educated in Erfurt. From 1939 studies at Berlin (i.al. under H. H. Schaeder). Ph.D. as early…