ZIMMER, Heinrich Robert. Greifswald 6.12.1890 — New Rochelle, N.Y. 20.3.1943. German Indologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of —> Heinrich Zimmer the elder (1851–1910) and Martha Sophie Hirt. Matriculated in Berlin in 1909, then studied Hebrew, Germanistics, art history and soon Indology (Lüders) at Berlin. Ph.D. 1914 Berlin. He…
ZIESENISS, Wilhelm Alexander. Börnsen bei Lauenburg 11.3.1899 — Breslau 11.4.1945. German Indologist and South-East Asian (Malay and Javanese) Scholar. Son of merchant Karl Hermann Zieseniss and Mary Matthew (from Scotland). Matriculated in 1917 from Hansa-Schule in Bergedorf. After brief military service studied at Heidelberg Arabic (Bezold) and Sanskrit (Liebich), a…
ZAEHNER, Robert Charles. Sevenoaks, Kent 8.4.1913 — Oxford 24.11.1974. British Scholar of Comparative Religion, especially Iranian and Indian. Professor in Oxford. Son of Swiss-German immigrants to England. Educated at Tonbridge School. From 1932 studied at Christ Church College, Oxford, i.al. classics, Persian and Iranian, also Sanskrit and Arabic, 1936-37 Middle Persian…
ZACHARIAE, Theodor Victor Hugo. Großkmehlen bei Liebenwerda, Brandenburg 3.2.1851 — Halle 5.5.1934. German Indologist. Professor in Halle. Son of Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal (1812–1894), a specialist of Byzantine law and second generation nobleman. Educated 1864-70 at the same school in Pforta as Nietzsche, Deussen, and the only 2 years…
YATES, William. Loughborough, Leicestershire 15.12.1792 — on sea 3.7.1845. Rev. British Missionary and Indologist in India. Son of elder William Yates, a Baptist shoemaker, and his wife Ann, went to school in Leicestershire. He intended to follow in his father’s profession, but became engaged in religion and started in the…
OVSJANIKO-KULIKOVSKIJ, Dmitrij Nikolaevič (Ukr. Dmitro Mikolajovič O.-K.). Kahovka, Herson oblast 23.1.(4.2.)1853 — Odessa 9.10.1920. Ukrainian Linguist, Indologist and Literary Critic. Professor in Harkiv (Kharkiv), Academician in St.Petersburg. Born in a noble family, son of Nikolaj Nikolaevič Ovsjaniko-Kulikovskij and Varvara Nikolaevna Rud’. After gymnasium in Simferopol studies of Sanskrit and linguistics…
OUSELEY, Joseph Walker Jasper. Limerick 21.6.1800 — 21.11.1889. British (Anglo-Irish) Colonial Officer and Oriental Scholar in India. Colonel. Son of Major Ralph Ouseley (1739–1803) and Mary Collins. He was half-brother of the Persian scholar Sir William Ouseley (1767–1842), whose son was —> John Ralph Ouseley (1801–1850), and of diplomat Sir…
OTTO, Rudolf Louis Karl. Peine, Hannover 25.9.1869 — Marburg 6.3.1937. German Lutheran Theologian and Scholar of Religion. Professor in Marburg. Son of Friedrich Wilhelm Otto (1809–1882), a factory owner, and Katharine Karoline Henriette Sophie Reupke (1818–1911), lost his father in the age of 12. Matriculated 1888 from Hildesheim, studied theology…
OTRĘBSKI, Jan Szczepan. Silica, Silesia 8.12.1889 — Poznań 25.4.1971. Polish IE and Balto-Slavic Scholar. Professor in Wilno (Vilnius) and Poznań. Son of Stanisław Otrębski and Helena Gasińska. Educated in Kielce, studies at Warsaw (briefly medicine, after few months Slavic, graduated 1913) and Leipzig (Windisch, Leskien and Brugmann). During WW I…
OSTHOFF, Caspar Carl Heinrich Gottfried Emil Franz Hermann. Billmerich bei Unna, Westfalen 18.4.1847 — Heidelberg 7.5.1907. German IE Scholar. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of Franz Osthoff, an estate owner, and Lisette Theodore Birnberg. Gymnasium in Gütersloh. Studies of Classics and Sanskrit at Bonn (Gildemeister), then at Tübingen (Roth) and Berlin…