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…
RYBOT, Norman Victor Lacey. Jersey 7.1.1874 — Jersey 18.5.1961. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Colonel G. O. Rybot of Bengal Artillery and Victoria Baker. Joined Indian army in 1897, posted in the Punjab. In 1903-04 participated as Lieutenant in Younghusband’s expedition to Lhasa. In WW I in Suez Canal defence…
ROSITZKE, Harry August. Brooklyn, N.Y. 25.2.1911 — Warrenton, VA 4.11.2002.U.S. Linguist. Educated at Harvard. In 1940 at University of Rochester. In 1947-70 worked as spy for Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.), some time served in India. Married Barbara, children. Publications: “Ein experimenteller Beitrag zu den bengalischen Vokalen und Verschlusslauten”, IF 57, 1940, 239-251. –…
ROSE, Eugen. Barmen, Rheinland 4.7.1909 — Erkrath 5.8.2003. German Priest, former Student of Indology. Son of Walter Rose (d. 1918) and Caroline Schneider. From 1929 studied Theology and Indology at Marburg, Königsberg und Bonn. Ph.D. 1933 Bonn. Ordained 1934, worked as vicar in Deutz, but soon dismissed as member of…