STILL, John. Lambeth, London 1880 — Port Arthur, South Africa 9.9.1941. British Tea Planter Author, and Archaeologist in Sri Lanka. Son of Canon John Still (1845–1914) and Anna Nitrill (or Nihill, 1853–1894), educated at Winchester College. In 1897 emigrated to Ceylon and became a tea planter near Dickoya in Central…
STIRLING, Andrew. 13.12.1794 — Calcutta 23.5.1830. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Vice-Admiral Charles Stirling (1760–1833) of Woburn, Surrey and Charlotte Grote, educated at Haileybury, 1811-12. To India in 1813. After College of Fort William 1814 Assistant to Resident in Delhi, then Commissioner’s Secretary in Cuttack until 1828. “Persian…
STEINTHAL, Paul. 18?? — 19??. German Indologist. Ph.D in 1881 Leipzig. One P.St., Ph.D., was living in Heidelberg in the 1920s. Publications: Diss. Specimen der Nāyādhammakahā. 84 p. B. 1881. – Edited: Udānaṁ. 8+104 p. L. 1885 (repr. P.T.S. Text Ser. 142). – “Aus den Geschichten früherer Existenzen Buddhas”, Zeitsch.…
SCHÖHL, Hermann. Rufach, Oberelsass (now Rouffach, Haut-Rhin) 28.4.1882 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Son of the director of an agricultural school. After gymnasium in Colmar (Alsace) studied Germanistics at Freiburg i.B., Munich, Göttingen and Strassburg, where he started Sanskrit under E. Leumann. After graduating in 1905 worked as school-teacher…
SCHOEBEL, Charles (Karl Friedrich). Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Schwerin 20.10.1813 — Paris 8.12.1888 (data.bnf.fr 16.11). German Indologist, Ethnograph and Linguist in France. Lost early his father, the elder Carl Schoebel, the chamberlain of the Grand Duke, who then supported his studies in Berlin. Around 1838 moved to France, first in Toulouse, soon to…
SCHÖNFELD, Karl. Schaffhausen 1878 — Locarno 10.7.1949. Swiss Teacher and former Student of Indology. After school and gymnasium in Winterthur studied in 1897-98 classical and Romanic languages at Neuenburg (Neuchâtel) Academy, then 1898-1900 Sanskrit, IE, classics and Hebrew at Göttingen (Kielhorn) and 1900-03 classics and IE and philosophy at Zürich…
SCHÖNBERG, Ignaz. Baraczhaza, Hungary (now Barateaz in Romania) 7.4.1860 (hardly 1856) — Vienna 29.1.1886. Austrian (or German) Indologist. Son of Markus Schönberg (1820–1898) and Johanna Chaja Katalin. Educated in Temesvar (Timişoara) and Pest, in 1873 the family moved to Vienna. Student of Bühler at Vienna University, Ph.D. 1884. In May…
SCHULZ, Friedrich (Fritz) Eduard (Christoph Friedrich Ludwig Schulz). Darmstadt 12.7.1799 — Kurdistan, near Başkale fall 1829. German Oriental Scholar and Asian traveller. Son of cavalry officer Hermann Christian Schulz (1772–1813) and Felicie Foerster (d. 1807). Studies at Giessen and Göttingen. Ph.D. 1820 Giessen. In 1822 PD and 1823 ao. Professor…
ST. BARBE, Henry Lewis (Louis, born as H. L. St.B. Browne). 1849? — ?.3.1886. British Civil Servant in Burma. Son of Colonel William Browne of Sidmouth, Devon. Educated at Rugby. Studies at Brasenose College, Oxford from 1868 (when 19). In 1870 joined I.C.S. and changed his name. Political Agent at…
STOHR, Paolo. 1907? — 1940? (when 33). Italian Indologist (Sanskrit Scholar), also knew well Classical languages. Carpani calls him Professor, perhaps in a school. Unmarried. Publications: Wrote some articles for the Rivista di Indologia, apparently never published. Sources: Short notice by E.G. Carpani, in IC 6:3, 1940, 367; not in…