STANG, Christian Schweigaard. Christiania (Oslo) 15.3.1900 — Kirkenes 2.7.1977. Notwegian IE and Blato-Slavic Linguist. Professor in Oslo. Son of lawyer, politician and academic Fredrik Stang (1867–1941) and Caroline Schweigaard (1871–1900). Studied Germanistics and Classics at Oslo (also Sanskrit under Konow and Church Slavonian) and 1920-21 Paris (Meillet). In 1924-25 fieldwork…
SILBURN, Aliette. Paris 29.4.1921 — 2005. French. Daughter of English father, Walter John Silburn (1883–1928), and French mother, Berthe Hélène Dupuis (1880–1953), younger sister of —> Lilian Silburn (1908–1993). Apparently studied Sanskrit, but probably did not continue it further. She was living in Paris in her original home with her…
RÜPING, Klaus. Burg near Magdeburg 8.8.1940 — 7.9.2005. German Indologist. Professor in Münster. Son of economist Erich Rüping and his wife, elementary school teacher Hildegard Rüping, grew up in Bochum, gymnasium there until 1959. Then studies of Classics at Münster, from 1963 also Indology (under Hacker), 1963-64 one year at Bonn.…
ROGER RIVIÈRE, Juan. 1903 — ????. Spanish Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Active as early as 1947. Professor of Indology (or Oriental Art) at Complutense in Madrid in the 1960s. Publications: El pensamiento filosófico de Asia. 533 p. Madrid 1960. – La India. 262 p. Barcelona 1962. – “The problem of…
RIDGEWAY, Thomas (Tom) Bruce. Chewelah, co. Stevens, WA 30.9.1949 — Seattle 15.4.2005. U.S. Linguist. Son of Colonel Gordon Blais Ridgeway (1918–2003) and Margaret Adelaide Carlock (1922–2015), grew up in Taiwan and Germany. Went to India as a Peace Corps Volunteer. B.A. in chemistry. Ph.D. 1986 University of Washington. Started mainly as…
RAVEAU, Régine Gisèle Francette. Poitiers (Vienne) 17.5.1922 — Saint-Sébastien-du-Morsent (Eure) 9.12.1997. French Teacher interested in Sanskrit. Daughter of a winegrower. Studied German at Poitiers and Sanskrit in Paris. Ph.D. Librarian of Société asiatique, 1951 in Calcutta. Then schoolteacher of German. From 1936 active communist. Publications: “L’adaptation des lois de Manu chez les…
RASSAT, Hans-Joachim. Elbing, Westpreussen 29.1.1926 — Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) 7.1.1999. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1955 Tübingen. Probably worked as journalist. Publications: Diss. Gaṇeśa. Eine Untersuchung über Herkunft, Wesen und Kult der elefantenköpfigen Gottheit Indiens. Manuscript of 5+195 p. Tübingen 1955. – A. Holtzmann; Indische Sagen. Eingeleitet und erläutert von H.J.R.…
QUECKE, Kurt. 19?? — 1975. German Physician and Indologist. Ph.D. 1947 Marburg, under Nobel. Also Dr.med. In 1959 Kreismedizinalrat in Marburg. In 1972 apparently in Giessen. Perhaps he is K. Quecke of Essen, born 15.7.1924, student at Tübingen from 1943. Publications: Diss. Die Lehre von den drei Körpern Buddhas (Trikāya).…
PINGREE, David Edwin. New Haven, CT 2.1.1933 — Providence, RI 11.11.2005. U.S. Indologist and Historian of Science. Son of Daniel Pingree (1902–1986) and Elizabeth Maconi. Grew up in Providence and attended school there. Graduated 1950 from Phillips Academy in Andover. Studied Sanskrit, classics and mathematics, then also Arabic, at Harvard. Mainly…
PETROVIĆ, Svetozar. Karlovac 28.6.1931 — Novi Sad 23.10.2005. Croatian Scholar of Literature. Graduated from Zagreb 1956, also studied Indology at Allahabad. Ph.D. 1966 in Croatian literature. In 1959-70 Assistant and Docent of Yugoslavian Literature at Zagreb. In 1970-77 Professor of Literature at Novi Sad and from 1977 at Belgrade. Retired…