STEINER, Margaret(he). 1??? — 19??. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1926 Tübingen under Garbe. In 1939 still working under Hauer at Tübingen. Publications: Diss. Verhältnis der Sāṁkhya-tattva-kaumudī zu den älteren Kommentaren zur Sāṁkhyakārikā. Manuscript of 102 p. 1926. – “Der Ahaṁkāra in den ältesten Upaniṣaden”, Festgabe Garbe 1927, 109-114. Sources:…
SCHÖHL, Hermann. Rufach, Oberelsass (now Rouffach, Haut-Rhin) 28.4.1882 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Son of the director of an agricultural school. After gymnasium in Colmar (Alsace) studied Germanistics at Freiburg i.B., Munich, Göttingen and Strassburg, where he started Sanskrit under E. Leumann. After graduating in 1905 worked as school-teacher…
SCHOEBEL, Charles (Karl Friedrich). Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Schwerin 20.10.1813 — Paris 8.12.1888 (data.bnf.fr 16.11). German Indologist, Ethnograph and Linguist in France. Lost early his father, the elder Carl Schoebel, the chamberlain of the Grand Duke, who then supported his studies in Berlin. Around 1838 moved to France, first in Toulouse, soon to…
SCHÖNFELD, Karl. Schaffhausen 1878 — Locarno 10.7.1949. Swiss Teacher and former Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1909/10 Zürich. After school and gymnasium in Winterthur studied in 1897-98 classical and Romanic languages at Neuenburg (Neuchâtel) Academy, then 1898-1900 Sanskrit, IE, classics and Hebrew at Göttingen (Kielhorn) and 1900-03 classics and IE and…
SCHÖNBERG, Ignaz. Baraczhaza, Hungary (now Barateaz in Romania) 7.4.1860 (hardly 1856) — Vienna 29.1.1886. Austrian (or German) Indologist. Son of Markus Schönberg and Johanna Chaja Katalin. Educated in Temesvar (Timişoara) and Pest, in 1873 the family moved to Vienna. Student of Bühler at Vienna University, Ph.D. 1884. In May 1884…
STOHR, Paolo. 1907? — 1940? (when 33). Italian Indologist (Sanskrit Scholar), also knew well Classical languages. Carpani calls him Professor, perhaps in a school. Publications: Wrote some articles for the Rivista di Indologia, apparently never published. Sources: Short notice by E.G. Carpani, in IC 6:3, 1940, 367; not in Porru…
STRACHAN, John. Brae near Keith, Banffshire 31.1.1862 — Prestwich, Lancashire 25.9.1907. British (Scottish) Classical and Celtic Linguist. Son of farmer Jacob Strachan and Ann Kerr. After school in Keith, studies of Classics from 1877 at Aberdeen (M.A. 1881) and Cambridge (Pembroke College, B.A. 1885, Fellow 1886, M.A. 1889), then IE…
STROHAL, Emil Ernst. Klagenfurt 29.7.1874 — Leipzig 7.3.1902. Austrian Student of Indology. The eldest son of Emil Strohal (1844–1914), a legal scholar. In 1896-97 studied medicine at Leipzig, then switched to Indology. Ph.D. 1900 Göttingen (under Windisch). Died preparing his habilitation. Publications: Diss. Bhāskararāya’s Śivanāmakalpalatālavāla. Herausgegeben, übersetzt und erklärt. 1.…
SULEJKIN, Dmitrij Aleksandrovič. 1900 — 1948. Russian Indologist. Studies at Leningrad (under Ščerbatskoj), then employed as naučnyj sotrudnik at the Oriental Institute of the Soviet Academy of Science in Leningrad. He was a Sanskrit scholar interested in state, society and history of ancient India. Publications: A few articles Sources: Briefly…
SULPIZI, Giuseppe. Città della Pieve, Perugia 17.10.1875 — 19??. Italian Scholar. Professor at Florence (Istituto Superiore di Firenze). Still active in 1911. Sources: Translated: L’idillio di Tapati e Samvarana à un episodio leggiadrissimo del Mahábhárata. 7+10 p. Florence 1898. Sources: Rivista Bibliografica Italiana 4, 1899, 64.