JÜLG, Bernhard. Ringelbach bei Oberkirch, Baden 20.8.1825 — Innsbruck 14.8.1886. German Oriental and Classical Scholar in Austria. Professor in Cracow and Innsbruck. Born in a Catholic farmer family, son of Bernhard Jülg and Maria Josepha Peter (1805–1841). Gymnasium from 1839 in Offenburg, 1843-44 in Mannheim. In 1844-45 studied classical philology…
JONG, Jan Willem de. Leiden 15.2.1921 — Canberra 22.1.2000. Dutch Indologist and Buddhist Scholar in Australia. Professor in Leiden and Canberra. After gymnasium in Leiden studies of Chinese, Japanese and Sanskrit at Leiden in 1939-45 (cand. 1945), at Harvard 1946 and in Paris 1947-50, now also Tibetan. During the war the…
JONES, William. Westminster 28.9.1746 — Calcutta 27.4.1794. Sir. British Pioneer of Indology. Judge in Calcutta. He was the youngest child of the mathematician William Jones (1675–1749), originally a Welshman from Anglesey, and Maria Nix. Lost early his father and was raised by mother. Educated from 1753 at Harrow, where he…
JONES, John James. New Quay, Cardiganshire 12.3.1892 — Aberystwyth? 20.2.1957. British (Welsh) Indologist. Son of Thomas J., a saddler, and Elizabeth Williams. After school in New Quay and Aberaeron studies of Classics at University College of Wales in Aberystwyth 1911-14 (M.A.). Worked nine years as school-teacher of Latin in Stockton-on-Tees,…
JOLLY, Julius E. Heidelberg 28.12.1849 — Würzburg 25.4.1932. German Indologist. Professor in Würzburg. Born in a family with strong academic traditions, son of Philipp von Jolly (1809–1884), later Professor of Physics at Munich, and Luise Wüstenfeld. In 1867-71 studies of Oriental, Indo-Iranian and IE linguistics at Munich (Haug), Berlin (Weber)…
JOHNSTONE, Peirce de Lacy Henry. Dublin 25.5.1848 — Edinburgh 26.1.1927. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis William J. and Maria Mahony. Studies at Edinburgh and Oxford (Balliol College), where he was Boden Scholar of Sanskrit 1869. B.A. 1871, M.A. 1876. In 1871 joined Bengal Civil Service,…
JOHNSTON, Edward Hamilton. London 26.3.1885 — Oxford 24.10.1942. British Indologist. Professor in Oxford, in India 1909-24. Son of Reginald Eden J. (1847–1922), a banker, and Rose Alice Eyres (1854–1907), educated at Eton. From 1904 studied at Oxford mathematics, then history. In 1907 joined the I.C.S., came to India in November…
JOHNSTON, Charles. Ballykilbeg, Down County 17.2.1867 — New York 16.10.1931. Irish Theosophist, Author and Translator of Sanskrit Literature in the U.S.A. Son of William J. (1829–1902), M.P. for Belfast, and Georgiana Barbara Hay. Educated in Derby, England, and at Dublin University. In 1886 joined I.C.S., in 1888-90 served in Bombay,…
JOHNSON, John James. 18?? — ?.12.1917. Rev. British Missionary in India. Worked in Benares, for Church Missionary Society. He was known of his excellent command of Sanskrit and called “Pandit Johnson”. Publications: Edited and translated Rāmānuja’s Vedāntatattvasāra in Pandit 9-11, 1887-90. Sources: Farquhar, Rel. Literature 1920, xv briefly.
JOHNSON, Helen Moore. Saint Clair, Franklin County, Missouri (not Osceola?) 14.10.1889 — Osceola, Mo. 26.6.1967. U.S. Indologist, a Specialist of Jainism. Birth place from geni.com, others say she was born in Osceola, Montana. Daughter of Thomas Moore J. and Alice Jackson (or Barr?). Studies at University of Missouri in Columbia,…