AMMANN, Joseph. Kempern 23.3.1804 — 4.1.1854. German Schoolteacher interested in Indology. Student of O. Frank at Munich. From 1836 eighteen years teacher in Landshut (until death), taught religion and Hebrew. Publications: “Über das Studium der Sanskrit-Sprache nebst einigen Bemerkungen über Sanskrit-Literatur, mit einem Anhang Sanskritschrift enthaltend”, Progr. Landshut Stud.-Anst. 1848,…
AMBROSI, Felice Alessandre. 21.11.1841 — 19??. Italian Latin Scholar and Schoolteacher also interested in Indology. In Florence, then Professor of Classics at Ginnasio Superiore in Macerata. Publications: Vâlmîki: Il Lamento del Vânaro Hanumat: episodio del Râmâyana, tradotto in versi. 23 p. Genoa 1886; several works on Latin and Italian philology…
ALTUCHOW, Nicolás (Mikołaj Ałtuchow). Kiev (Kyiv) 12.9.1912 — Montevideo 3.5.1983. Polish Indologist in South America. Born in Ukraina, son of engineer Wladimir Altuchow and Anna Hornung, family moved to Poland in 1917. Student of Stasiak at Lwów (Lviv), in 1936-39 his Assistant. Then emigrated to England. From 1951 he was…
ALTER, Franz Karl. Engelsberg, Austrian Silesia (Andělská Hora in Czechia) 27.1.1749 — Vienna 29.5.1804. S.J. Austrian (Silesian) Orientalist and Greek Scholar. Born in what is now Czech part of Silesia. Educated in Olmütz (Olomouc). Jesuit from 1766, after the suppression of the order taught Greek at a gymnasium, further studies…
ALSDORF, Ludwig Wilhelm. Laufersweiler near Kirchberg in Hunsrück 8.8.1904 — Buchholz-Sprötze, Kr. Harburg 25.3.1978. German Indologist. Professor in Hamburg. Son of a minister, Hermann Alsdorf and Emilie Chelius. In 1911 the family moved to Scheidt in Saarland. He went to school in Saarbrücken (Ludwigs-Gymnasium). Began his studies in 1922 at…
ALPER, Harvey Paul. 1945 — 4.4.1987. U.S. Indologist and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Studied at University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. In 1974-87 he was Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, also taught Sanskrit there. Died suddenly. Publications: Diss. Abhinavagupta’s Concept of Cognitive Power: A Translation…
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 A. and Fredrika Vilhelmina Holmström, educated in Stockholm. Studies at Uppsala from 1856: M.A. 1864, Ph.D. 1866. PD in Arabic in the same year. Further studies in 1867…
ALLEN, Albert Henry. 18?? — 19??, in 1900 in San Francisco. U.S. Indologist? Probably the same A. H. Allen whom University of California Graduates 1864–1905 (1905, p. 58) mentions as A.B. 1898 U.C.L.A. and M.A. 1900 Harvard (English & Sanskrit). Perhaps also the same as book historian Albert Henry Allen…
ALLAN, John. Bolton, East Lothian 8.8.1884 — Edinburgh 26.8.1955. British (Scottish) Numismatician and Indologist. Son of John Gray Allan, a head master, grew up on Longniddry. Educated from 1899 at Royal High School in Edinburgh and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Leipzig. From 1907 working in British Museum, in…
AL-GEORGE, Sergiu Anatol. Tărgu Mureş 13.9.1922 — Bucharest 10.11.1981. Romanian Indologist. Born in Transylvania, son of Vasile Al-George (1895–1960), a lawyer and poet, and Antonina Donos. Educated at military high school in Tărgu Mureş and Chișinău, then in a civil high school in Bucharest From 1941 studied medicine at Bucharest…