ELLIS, Francis Whyte. 1777? — Ramnad (Ramanathapuram), Tamil Nadu 10.3.1819. British Civil Servant and Pioneer of Indology in India. From 1796 in Madras Civil Service, 1898 Deputy Secretary and 1802 Secretary to the Board of Revenue, 1810 Collector of Madras. Died of cholera (?). He was a pioneer of Dravidian…
ELLIOT, Walter. Edinburgh 16.1.1803 — Wolfelee, Roxburghshire 1.3.1887. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant, Indologist, Epigraphist and Naturalist in India. Son of James Elliot and Caroline Hunter (d. 1824), educated privately and in Cumberland and Doncaster. Appointed into a writership in E.I.C. he came to Haileybury in 1818 and to India…
ELIOT, Charles Norton Edgcumbe. Sibford Gower, Oxfordshire 8.1.1862 — Strait of Malacca 16./17.3.1931. Sir. British Oriental Scholar and Diplomat. Son of Edward Eliot, a curate, and Elizabeth Harriet Wyatt Watling. Educated at Cheltenham College, studies from 1880 at Balliol College, Oxford (classical philology, also Sanskrit, B.A. 1885). Fellow of Trinity…
ELIADE, Mircea. Bucharest 9.3.1907 (his own, others say rather 13.3., Old Era 28.2.) — Chicago 22.4.1986. Romanian Scholar of Comparative Religion in the U.S.A. Son of Gheorghe Eliade (1868–1951), a captain in the Romanian army, and Jeana Vasilescu (Ioana Stoenescu?). The father had changed his original family name, Ieremia, in…
EKVALL, Robert Brainerd. Minion (Min), Kansu 18.2.1898 — King county, Wash. ?.5.1978. U.S. Missionary and Tibetan Scholar. Born in China as a son of a Scottish missionary family, David Paul Ekvall and Helen Galbraith. After his father’s death in 1912 came with his mother to the U.S.A. and graduated from…
EKENSTAM, Fabian Wilhelm af (until 1810 Ekenman). Sålla (Sjögestad, Östergötland) 10.10.1786 — Stora Tona (Västerås stift) 7.2.1868. Swedish Priest interested in Sanskrit. Son of the marine officer Nils Adolph Ekenman (1747–1813, the title of nobility as af Ekenstam was conferred to him in 1810) and Catharina Margareta Götherhielm. School in…
EICHHOFF, Frédéric-Gustave. Le Havre 17.8.1799 — Paris 10/11.5.1875. French (of German background) Linguist. Born as the son of a Hamburg merchant settled in France, Gustave Eichhoff (1738–1818), and Marie Slomé Barthel. Studies in Paris, Ph.D. 1826 (diss. I on Hesiod and diss. II De memoria). From 1827 taught German to…
EGUÍLAZ Y YANGUAZ, Leopoldo. Mazzarrón, prov. Murcia 29.9.1829 — Granada 15.7.1906. Spanish Literate interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Granada. Dr.iuris 1864 Madrid. From 1864 Professor of General and Spanish Literature at Granada University. He was one of the first Spanish scholars interested in Sanskrit, but spent most of his time…
EGGERS, Wilhelm. Magdeburg 23.4.1888 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Son of a contractor (then geh. Baurat). Gymnasium 1898-1908 in Aschersleben, stopped at Unterprima without matriculation. After working one year at local aircraft factory studied in 1909-10 mechanical engineering at Karlsruhe technische Hochschule and in 1910-12 at Kolonialschule in Witzenhausen.…
EGGERMONT, Pierre Herman Leonard. Manado, Celebes 4.2.1914 — Linden, Belgium 11.4.1995. Dutch Indologist and Classical Scholar. Son of a government agent in Indonesia, Pierre August Leonard Eggermont (1886–1964), and Cornelia Johanna Margaretha van Houten. After school in Surabaya came to the Netherlands in 1931 and began studies of Classics, Sanskrit…