FLEET, John Faithfull. Royston (Chiswick) 1.5.1847 — London 21.2.1917. British Indologist (Epigraphist and Historian). Son of John George Fleet (1818–1902), a wholesale sugar dealer, and Esther Faithful, educated at Merchant Taylor’s School in London. In 1865 he passed the I.C.S. examination and began studies at University College in London, including…
FLECHIA, Giovanni. Piverone (Piemonte) 6.11.1811 — Piverone 3.7.1892. Italian Indologist. Professor in Turin. Son of Carlo Flechia, a physician, and Teresa Mosca. As a young man worked as secretary in a noble family (of conti Balbo) in Turin and attended some courses at University, later also studies in Paris and…
FIÓK, Károly. Nagykároly (now Carei in Romania) 29.4.1857 — Debrecen 21.5.1915. Hungarian Schoolteacher and Translator of Sanskrit Literature. Studies of Classics, IE, Persian and Sanskrit at Berlin and Munich. In 1886-1907 teacher at ev.-reform. Obergymnasium in Budapest (Budapesti Reformatús Főgimnázium), in 1907-15 teacher of Latin at ev.-reform. High School in…
FINOT, Louis. Bar-sur-Aube (Aube) 20.7.1864 — Toulon (Var) 16.5.1935. French Indologist and South-East Asian Scholar. Son of Bernardin-Florentin Finot, a notary, and Marie Valentine Doré. After school in Troyes studies of law and economic history in Paris (licence). From 1890 employed in Bibliothèque Nationale as a stagiaire, from 1892 as…
FILLIOZAT, Jean Lucien Antoine. Paris 4.11.1906 — Paris 27.10.1982. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. Son of a physician, educated in Paris (Lycée Henri IV and Louis le Grand). After studies of medicine in Paris (Dr. med. 1930) he practised as ophthalmologist until 1947. But he became early interested in India…
FIERLINGER, Julius Josef Claudius von. Vienna 15.1.1862 — Baden bei Wien 22.8.1884. Austrian Linguist. Born as the younger son of Julius von Fierlinger (1829–1884), an Austrian politician and finance expert who was knighted in the rank of Freiherr in 1876, and his wife Anna Daben (1830–1900). Apparently studied at Vienna…
FICK, Richard Friedrich. Schwartau near Lübeck 7.2.1867 — Göttingen 18.12. 1944. German Indologist. Son of merchant Adolf Fick and Maria Loewe, went to school in Lübeck and from 1883 in Kiel, matriculated in 1885. Studies of German, English, philosophy and especially Indology (under Pischel and Jacobi) at Kiel. Ph.D. 1888…
FICK, Friedrich Conrad August. Petershagen bei Minden 5.5.1833 — Hildesheim 24.3.1916. German Linguist (IE scholar). Professor in Göttingen and Breslau. Son of Otto Vicke (Fick), later Landesökonomiekommissar, and Wilhelmine Hillefeld. School in Hildesheim. Studies of classical philology (K. F. Hermann), then comparative linguistics, Sanskrit and Avesta (Benfey). also Persian and Armenian…
FERTIG, Michael. Aschaffenburg? 1801 — Landshut 1873. German (Bavarian) schoolteacher. Probably studied at Würzburg (learning Sanskrit from O. Frank). From 1834 Latin teacher in Münnerstadt, then from 1846 in Passau. Occasionally also taught Sanskrit there. From 1855-69 Rector of Hans Carossa Gymnasium in Landshut. Married c. 1849. The Draupadi book…
FERRARIO, Benigno. Italy 21.9.1887 — 1956. Italian Linguist in Uruguay, interested in Sanskrit. Graduated from I.U.O. in Naples. Emigrated to Uruguay in 1923 and worked as translator for the High Court. Finally Profesor de Lenguas Clásicas y Filosofia at Montevideo University, where he occasionally taught Sanskrit in the 1940s. Publications:…