SUMMERS, Gertrude M.
SUMMERS, Gertrude M., Miss. 1??? — 19??. Miss. British. Lecturer in Bengali at S.O.A.S. in London in the end of the 1930s and still 1948. Publications: Nothing found. Sources: Mentioned in S.O.A.S. reports.
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SUTHERLAND, J. C. Colebrooke
SUTHERLAND, James Charles Colebrooke. Walcot, Somerset 6.11.1792 — Calcutta 1.2.1844. British Lawyer in India. Son of Andrew Sutherland (d. 1795), an officer, and Louisa Colebrooke, sister of —> H. T. Colebrooke, grew up in the house of his uncle James Edward Colebrooke. Member of I.C.S. and a lawyer, from 1807 in…
STORCK, Wilhelm
STORCK, Friedrich Wilhelm Paul. Letmathe, Kr. Iserlohn, Westfalen 5.7. 1829 — Münster 16.7.1905. German Linguist (German & Romance) interested in Pāli. Son of a teacher, educated in Arnsberg. From 1850 studies of Germanics at Munich, Münster, Bonn and Berlin. In Berlin also student of Bopp and Weber. Ph.D. 1858 Berlin.…
STEINGASS, Franz Joseph (Francis Joseph)
STEINGASS, Franz Joseph (Francis Joseph). Frankfurt/Main 16.3.1825 — ibid. ?.1.1903. German Oriental (Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit) Scholar in the U.K. Born in a Jewish family, studies at Munich. Ph.D. 1846 Munich. Around 1870 moved to England. Professor of Modern Languages at Wakefield Grammar School in Birmingham for five years, then…
SCHOLBERG, Henry Caesar
SCHOLBERG, Henry Caesar. Rushford, Minnesota 11.10.1879 — Daytona Beach, Florida 2.10.1969. Rev. U.S. Methodist Missionary and Hindi Scholar. Born in a modest family of Norwegian immigrants, son of Ole Peter Scholberg and Maren Christine Johnsen. Studies at Methodist Hamline University in St.Paul. Arrived with his wife in India in 1906,…
SCHOTERMAN, Jan Anthony
SCHOTERMAN, Jan Anthony. Amersfoort 27.3.1948 — Amersfoort 29.6.1989. Dutch Indologist. Son of Willem Rudolf Sch. and Randi Oppedal. Educated in Amersfoort. In 1968-73 studies of Indo-Iranian and Dravidian at Utrecht, travelled in South and South-East Asia. Ph.D. 1982 Utrecht (under Bodewitz). Taught Indology at Utrecht, for a while also at…
SCHOMERUS, Hilko Wiardo
SCHOMERUS, Hilko Wiardo. Marienkate, Ostfriesland 7.1.1879 — Halle 13.11.1945. German Missionary and Indologist (Tamil Scholar). In India 1902-12, Professor in Halle. Son of a physician, Cornelius Poppäus Schomerus, and Friederike Sophie Ries. Educated in Emden and from 1897 at missionary seminary in Leipzig, left for India in 1902 following in…
STEVENSON, Margaret
STEVENSON, Alice Margaret (née Adams). Sheldon, Warwickshire 26.12. 1875 — Dublin 11.5.1957. British Missionary and Indologist. Daughter of H. O. Adams and his wife Emily. Educated at The Ladies’ College in Jersey, studies at Somerville College, Oxford, and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1899 Honour, School of Jurisprudence, Oxford. In 1900…
SCHOTT, Wilhelm
SCHOTT, Wilhelm Christian. Mainz 3.9.1807 — Berlin 21.1.1889. German Fenno-Ugric and Central Asian Scholar, and Sinologist. Son of merchant Johann Wilhelm Schott and Elisabeth Wahl. Started as theology student at Giessen in 1819-21, but then switched to Oriental languages and studied them at Halle, first Arabic (Ph.D. 1823), soon also…
SVETOVIDOVA, Irina Anatol’evna
SVETOVIDOVA, Irina Anatol’evna. Leningrad 3.8.1930 — 6.5.1968. Russian Indologist (Bengali scholar). Daughter of an official. Grew up in Leningrad (the family moved there in 1931), during WW II in Udmurtia. Graduated 1955 from Leningrad Oriental Faculty. In 1957-68 naučnyj sotrudnik at Leningrad Oriental Institute, in 1965-68 also taught at Oriental…