BALFOUR, Francis. Fife 1744? — Fernie estate, Monimail, Fife 7.5.1818. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Son of Arthur Balfour (d. 1746), an officer, and Janet Peterson. Dr.Med. 1767 Edinburgh. From 1769 Assistant Surgeon in E.I.C.’s service in India, mainly in Calcutta, full surgeon 1777. He was a friend of Warren…
ARNOT, Sandford. 1797? — London 21.6.1834. British (Scottish) Indologist (Hindi/Urdu Scholar). From 1821 (then already in India, but still young) Assistant editor of the Calcutta Journal. He wrote an article considered offensive to Government and was banished from India to Singapore, where Raffles arranged his journey to England. The quarrels…
ANQUETIL-DUPERRON, Abraham Hyacinthe. Paris 7.12.1731 — Paris 18.1.1805. French Orientalist, Pioneer of Iranian and Indian Studies. Travelled in India 1755-61, then member of the A.I.B.L. in Paris. He was the son of a spice merchant from Paris, Pierre Anquetil, and Marie Angélique Coignard, and brother of historian Louis-Pierre Anquetil de…
ANDREAS, Friedrich Carl. Batavia (Jakarta) 14.4.1846 — Göttingen 3.10.1930. German Iranian Scholar. Professor in Göttingen. Born in Dutch East India as the son of a military physician with Armenian background and German mother, he was sent to Hamburg for school in the age of seven. Matriculated from Geneva. Studies of…
ANDERSON, Robert. 1792 — March 1843. Rev. British Civil Servant and Tamil Scholar in India, Madras Presidency. Born of a wealthy family, educated at Harrow and Haileybury. Learned Sanskrit, Persian and Bengali at East India College, went to India (Madras Civil Service), but after nine years was forced to return…
ALMKVIST, Herman Napoleon (born Almqvist). Stockholm 28.4.1839 — Uppsala 30.9.1904. Swedish Oriental Scholar. Professor in Uppsala. Son of city cashier Per Johan Almqvist and Fredrika Vilhelmina Holmström, educated in Stockholm. Studies of Arabic, Persian and Turkish at Uppsala from 1856: M.A. 1864, Ph.D. 1866. PD in Arabic in the same…
ALEXANDER, James Edward. Stirling 16.10.1803 — Ryde, Isle of Wight 2.4.1885. Sir. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of banker Edward Alexander and Catherine Glas. Educated at colleges in Edinburgh and Glasgow and at Sandhurst. In 1821 joined Madras cavalry. In February 1824 he visited the Ajanta Caves (he…
ABRAMJAN (Abramian), Ruben Tadesovič (Arm. Ruben T‘adēosi Abrahamyan). Gnišik, Turkish Armenia 9.(21.)2.1881 — 26.10.1951. Armenian Iranian and Armenian Scholar. Son of a civil servant. After gymnasium in Yerevan studied at Kiev, Leipzig and St.Petersburg, in 1911 graduated from Oriental Faculty in St. Petersburg. In 1912-21 teacher in Tiflis (Tbilisi), then…