PELLY, Richard Lawrence. Coldharbour, Surrey 18.7.1886 — Salisbury, Wiltshire 7.4.1976. Rev. British. Son of Rev. Canon Richard Arnold Pelly (1856–1949) and Margaret Jane Buxton (1859–1903). Educated at Marlborough College. Studies at Cambridge (Clare College), B.A. 1910, M.A. 1912. In 1915-18 served as army chaplain. In 1918-26 Vice-Principal of Bishop’s College…
PARRINDER, Edward Geoffrey Simons. New Barnet, Hertfordshire 10.4.1910 — 16.6.2005. British Scholar of Comparative Religion. Methodist minister. Son of a glove dealer, of a practising Wesleyan Methodist family. Educated in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, when 16 began working as a railway booking clerk. Interested in religion and mission studied 1929-32 at Richmond…
MORRETTA, Angelo (Dan Petraşincu). 1910 — 1997. Italian-Romanian Scholar of Religion. Ph.D. From 1951 living in Rome, probably died there. Publications: Gli dei dell’ India: breve enciclopedia illustrata del pantheon indù. 364 p. Milano 1966. – Il pensiero vedanta. 396 p. Studi contemporanei 6.Rome 1968. – La parola e il silenzio. Una…
MILBURN, Robert Gordon. 30.5.1870 — 1968. Rev. British Missionary in India. After ordination worked as priest in London. Went to India as missionary, but lost his faith and turned to teaching. Vice-Principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta, 1906-14. Also Lecturer in Logic and Philosophy at Calcutta University. Married Mary. Publications: England and…
MASCARÓ FORNÉS, Joan (Juan Mascaro). Santa Margalica / Santa Margarita, Mallorca 8.12.1897 — Comberton, Cambridge, U.K. 19.3.1987. Spanish (Catalonian) Poet, Translator and Philologist. Son of a farmer family. School in Palma, then worked in British consulate in Palma. Studied English, Sanskrit and Pāli at Cambridge and in Jaffna. From 1933…
ŁUGOWSKI, Andrzej. Warsaw 26.1.1938 — 2006. Polish Indologist. Studied Indology and Germanistics at Warsaw and Poznań. M.A. 1961, Ph.D. 1968 Warsaw (Słuszkiewicz). Then taught at Warsaw. Publications: “Staroindyjskie wersje podania o potopie”, Euhemer 71-72, 1969, 49-54; “Legenda o Śunahśepie”, Euhemer 75, 1970, 17-25; “Fragmenty z Upaniszad”, Studia Filozoficzne 67, 1970, 35-42…
LEARNED, Dwight Whitney. Canterbury, Conn. 12.10.1848 — Claremont, co. Los Angeles, Calif. 19.3.1943. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Theologian. Son of Rev. Dr. Robert Coit Learned (1817–1867) and Sarah Birdseye Whitney (1824–1864), lost his mother when 16. Studies at Williston Seminary and from 1867 at Yale College (B.A. 1870) and University.…
JOHNSON, Willard Lyon. Des Moines, Iowa 30.5.1939 — Pauma Valley, Calif. 29.12.2006. U.S. Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Son of the elder W. L. Johnson and Margerie Elta Hackenberg. Studies at Oberlin College (B.A. 1961) and University of Wisconsin in Madison (M.A. 1966), Ph.D. 1972 there in Indian Languages and…
HYART, Charles. 1913 — 2004. Belgian Philologist. Studies at Liège (also Sanskrit with Fohalle). Taught Russian at Liège. Publications: Les contes de l’Inde. Brussels 1944. – “Le poème Nal’ i Damajanti de V. A. Zukovskij et l’original hindou”, Annuaire de l’Institut de philologie et d’histoire orientales et slaves 12 (= Mélanges…
HAURI, Christoph-Ernst. Binningen near Basel 17.10.1929 — 18.6.2005. Swiss Linguist. Son of a priest, gymnasium in Basel. Studies at Basel, Ph.D. 1960 there. From 1960 chargé de cours at Genève and Lausanne, in 1962-64 taught German at University of Texas in Houston, back in Switzerland from 1965 eo. Professor in…