GUBLER(-ITEN), Theophil. 1874 — 1954. Swiss Teacher, former Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1902/03 Basel, under Wackernagel. Taught Latin, Greek, history, geography and gymnastics at gymnasium in Basel 1906-34. Married Lina Iten, at least one child. Publications: diss. Die Patronymica im Alt-Indischen. 108 p. Göttingen 1903. – Works not related to…
GRÜNWEDEL, Albert. Munich 31.7.1856 — Lenggries bei Bad Tölz, Bavaria 28.10. (or 7.11.?) 1935. German Indologist, Tibetologist, Archaeologist and Art Historian. Museum Director in Berlin. Son of Karl Gr., a painter and lithograph, and Fanny La Roche, educated at Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich. In 1876-79 studied at Munich classical philology and…
GROSSET, Joanny. Lyon (Rhône) 29.3.1862 — 1931. French Pioneer of the Study of Indian Music. From the university of Lyon, a student of Regnaud (who wrote the Preface to the 1898 book). Licencié-ès-lettres. Unfortunately, he shared some ideas of his time, looking for “pure, original Aryan music”. He gave ideas…
GROHMA, Otto. Vienna 4.3.1943 — Paris 4.9.1974. Austrian Indologist. After matriculation in 1962 in Vienna studied there Indology and classical archaeology. Ph.D. 1971 Vienna. From 1972 Assistant at Indological Institute in Vienna. Died suddenly during a visit to Paris, a habilitation dissertation on Vallabha’s Nyāyalīlāvatī remained unfinished. Publications: Diss. Die…
GRILL, Julius Friedrich Ludwig (1903 von Grill). Gaildorf am Kocher, Württemberg 10.4.1840 — Tübingen 10.9.1930. German Indologist and Lutheran Theologian. Professor of Theology in Tübingen. Son of Finanzrat Johann Friedrich Grill (1811–1894) and Julia Franziska Palm. After Seminary in Urach studies of theology at Heidelberg and Tübingen, also Indology under Roth.…
GRIFFITH, Ralph Thomas Hotchkin. Corsley, Wiltshire 25.5.1826 — Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu 7.11.1906. British Teacher and Translator of Sanskrit Literature. More than fifty years in India, 1853-1906. Son of Rev. Robert Clavey Griffith (1792–1844), Rector of Corsley, and Mary Hotchkin. Educated in Westminster, then studies at Uppingham and from 1843 at…
GRIERSON, George Abraham. Glenageary, county Dublin 7.1.1851 — Camberley, Surrey 7.3.1941. Sir. British (Irish) Indologist. Son of the elder G. A. Grierson (1794–1875), LL.D., Queen’s Printer for Ireland, and Isabella Ruxton. Educated at St. Bee’s School and in Shrewsbury, then studied at Trinity College in Dublin, studied mathematics, Hindustani and…
GREENOUGH, James Bradstreet. Portland, Maine 4.5.1833 — Cambridge, MA 11.10.1901. U.S. Classical Scholar and Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Professor at Harvard. Son of James Greenough (1802–1885) and his wife Catharine, the family moved soon to Boston. After Boston Latin School graduated A.B. in 1856 from Harvard College. Studied one year…
GRAY, Louis Herbert. Newark, NJ 10.4.1875 — New York 18.8.1955. U.S. Indologist, Iranian Scholar and Linguist. Professor in New York. Son of Thomas J. Gray and Anna Elizabeth Earl. Studies at Princeton (A.B. 1896) and Columbia (A.M. 1898, Ph.D. 1900, under A. V. Williams Jackson). In 1900-02 chief cataloguer and…
GRAUL, Karl Friedrich Leberecht. Wörlitz bei Dessau 6.2.1814 — Erlangen 10.11.1864. German Indologist (Tamil Scholar) and Lutheran Missionary. Son of Gottfried Graul (d. 1824), a weaver, and Louise Haberkorn (1774–1838), educated at gymnasium in Zerbst and Dessau. From 1834 studies of theology at Leipzig, then visited Italy as a tutor…