CHEN (Ch’en), Kenneth Kuan-Sheng. Honolulu 20.9.1907 — 25.4.1993. U.S. Indologist (Buddhist scholar). Son of Hua-hsiu Ch’en, who had moved to Hawaii from South China and bought a rice plantation, and his wife Chu See. Studies at University of Hawaii (A.B. 1931), at Harvard-Yenching University in Peking (M.A. 1934), at University of…
MØLLER-KRISTENSEN, Frede. Nr. Herlev 6.1.1933 — 21.2.2003. Danish Indologist. Daughter of Kristian Møller-Kristensen and Anna Graversen. M.A. 1960 Copenhagen. She contributed to the C.P.D. in the 1950s and was its editor in the 1960s. In 1966-72 also lecturer in Pāli at Copenhagen University. Then Director of Oriental Department of Kongelige…
IGGLEDEN, Robert E. W. London 11.6.1913 — 21.3.1981. British Bauddha. Worked in optical profession. After WW II pupil of Sayadaw U Thittila until 1952 (when Sayadaw returned to Burma). Under him trained as a specialist of Abhidhamma and Secretary of the P.T.S. until 1976. Married Claudine, who wrote a life of Thittila…
CORNYN, William Stewart. Vancouver 16.7.1906 — 15.3.1971. Canadian Burmese and Russian Scholar in the U.S.A. Son of John Cornyn (1868–1907) and Lillian M. Stewart (1878–1929). In 1922 moved to Los Angeles, worked as stock clerk, hall boy, and bookkeeper, 1924-28 insurance clerk in San Francisco, then back to Los Angeles.…
PÉREZ-REMÓN, Joaquín.1922 — 1985. S.J. Father. Spanish Buddhist Scholar. Jesuit missionary in India. Then taught Oriental philosophy at Universidad Jesuita de Deusto in Bilbao. M.A., Ph.D. In his 1980 book he tried to show anatta being a late concept in the Nikāyas. Publications: Agua bendita del Ganges. El siglo de las misiones.…
NOAKES, G. M. 18?? — 19??. Miss. Friend of C. A. F. Rhys Davids. In 1904-05 she transliterated the Pāli text of the Dukapaṭṭhāna from the Thai printed edition for the P.T.S. Then similar work with the both Niddesas Both were then used as the basis, collated with several manuscripts, for the P.T.S. editions of these texts…
MISIEWICZ, Władysław. Lemberg (L’viv) 11.4.1910 — 1.11.1997. Polish Bauddha. After matriculation worked in various clerical posts, finally as the head of a reference library in Radom (retired 1977). In the WW II served in cavalry, then German war prisoner in Austria. During imprisonment became interested in Buddhism and later began…
MARTINI, François. Can Tho, Vietnam, near Cambodian border 20.5.1895 — 18.6.1965. French Indologist and South-East Asian Scholar. Son of Corsican father and Cambodian mother. Studied law and philosophy, participated in the WW I (wounded) and after war studied languages in Paris, soon Sanskrit under S. Lévi. Diplom of Thai at…
MARKGRAF, Lothar August Walter (Samaṇero Dhammānusari). 1865 — Flanders fall 1915. Swiss Bauddha. In 1907 went to Burma. Ordained samaṇera 1908 in Rangoon by Nyāyatiloka, but returned after half a year to lay life and returned to Europe. From 1909 ran his own publishing house in Breslau, publishing Buddhist books by…
LUDOWYK-GYOMROI, Edith (born E. Gelb, 1899 E. Győmröi). Budapest 8.9.1896 — London 11.2.1987. Hungarian Psychoterapist, Communist and Pāli Scholar in Sri Lanka. Born in a Jewish family, daughter of Mark Gelb (from 1899 András Győmröi), a furniture manufacturer, and Ilona Pfeifer. In 1914 married Erwin Renyi, a chemical engineer, had one…