GITEAU, Madeleine. Nantes 7.6.1918 — Chilly-Mazarin (Essonne) 25.2.2005. Mlle. French Art Historian, Specialist of Khmer Art. After studies of history and geography, she went in 1946 to Cambodia as teacher. Interested in local art and archaeology, on a furlough in Paris in 1951 started the study of Sanskrit (certificat 1961),…
GANIVET Y GARCÍA, Ángel. Granada 13.12.1865 — Riga, Latvia (then part of Russia) 29.11.1898. Spanish Writer and Diplomat. Son of mill-owner Francisco Ganivet Morcillo (d. 1875) and Angeles García Siles. In 1880-88 studied law and philosophy at Granada and 1888-89 at Madrid. Ph.D. and licence in law 1890 Granada. In 1892 entered…
GAEFFKE, Hans Peter Theodor. Breslau 6.12.1927 — Philadelphia 30.3.2005. German Indologist (Hindī scholar) in the U.S.A. Professor in Philadelphia. Son of engineer Albert Gaeffke. School in 1938-44 in Breslau, then military service 1944-45 and time as war prisoner. In 1947-48 studied history and Germanistics at Regensburg Hochschule, from 1948 Linguistics at…
ENSINK, Jacob (Jaap). Hilversum 5.6.1921 — ?.9.2005. Dutch Indologist and Old Javanese Scholar. Professor in Groningen. Son of Klaas Ensink (1891–1980) and Margarethe Josine van Gelder. Studied Classics, Indology and Indonesian philology (under Gonda and Bosch) at Utrecht, 1952 Ph.D. there. In 1954-62 Lecturer (lektor) of Indology at Groningen, from 1962…
EMENEAU, Murray Barnson. Lunenburg, Nova Scotia 28.2.1904 — Berkeley, CA 29.8.2005. Canadian Indologist and Anthropologist in the U.S.A. U.S. citizen 1941. Professor in Berkeley. Son of Archibald Emeneau (1871–1912) and Ada Helena Barnson (1875–1961). Father’s early death left the family in poor conditions, but a scholarship helped him to college.…
CHAVARRIA-AGUILAR, Oscar Luis. San José, Costa Rica 21.8.1922 — San José, Costa Rica 10.9.2005. Costa Rican Linguist in the U.S.A. Son of Francisco José Ricardo de Jesús Chavarría Flores (1892–1937) and Adela Joaquina María Aguilar Mathé. School in San José. Came to the U.S.A. in 1942. In 1942-45 served in U.S. Air…
ČAVČAVADZE, Tinatin Aleksandrovna. Tbilisi 29.4.1928 — 1997. Georgian Indo-Iranian scholar. Daughter of an official, graduated 1949 from Oriental Faculty of Tbilisi University. Kand. filol. nauk 1954, dr. filol. nauk 1987. In 1956-58 taught at Tbilisi University, 1957-60 naučnyj sotrudnik at Linguistic Inst. (Inst. Jazykoznanija) and from 1960 at Oriental Institute…
BURTON-PAGE, John Garrard. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex 19.9.1921 — Church Knowle, Dorset 13.6.2005. British Indologist (Sanskrit and Hindi Scholar and Historian). Music studies (horn) at Royal College of Music were interrupted after one term through war service in India and Burma, learned now Hindi and Nepali and after war studied from 1946 Sanskrit…
BUCCA, Salvador (Salvatore Bucca). Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto near Messina in Sicily 30.10.1920 — Buenos Aires 30.12.2005. Argentinian (Italian-born) Linguist interested in the Upanishads. Born in Sicilly, studied at Pisa (graduated in classics 1944), then collaborator in the Lexicon Etruscum in Florence, moved to Argentina in 1948. Taught classics and Sanskrit…
BRUNNER-LACHAUX, Helène (née H. Lachaux). L’Hérault 20.5.1920 — Lausanne 27.3.2005. French Indologist. Studied first mathematics and physics, CAPES 1942, and taught them at school in 1942-62, first in France, then 1951-53 Berchtesgaden, 1953-55 Addis Abeba and 1955-62 at Pondichéry French lycée. Now became interested in Śaivism and joined Filliozat’s Śaivasiddhānta team. Also…