JOHN, Christian Samuel. 1746/47 — 1813. Rev. German Pietist Missionary in South India. Worked from 1771 in Tranquebar. He was also interested in nature, collected shells, medicinal plants and other naturalia and sent some specimens to Germany. For this he was given doctorate by Academia Leopoldina. He tried to develop…
HOWELL, William. Madras (?) 1.11.1790 (1789?) — Madras c. 1867. Rev. Missionary. Son of the elder William Howell (d. 1803), a soldier who had arrived in India in 1789, and his wife (died perhaps in 1793). Educated in Madras. When 14 apprenticed as Assistant Surveyor in Madras Survey under Major…
HOOPER, John Stirling Morley. Stirling, Scotland 12.4.1882 — Stratford-upon-Avon 2.5.1974. Rev. British Wesleyan Missionary in India. Son of John Henry Hooper. Studies at Oxford (Corpus Christi College, B.A. & M.A.). Came to India in 1905 and worked as missionary priest in Madras. From 1930 Headmaster of Wesley Higher Secondary School in Madras.…
HENRIQUES, Henrique (-quez, Anrique Anriquez, Aṇṭiṟīkku Aṭikaḷār). Vila Viçosa, Evora 1520 — Punnaikkayal, dt. Tōttukkuṭi 6.2.1600. S.J. Portuguese Priest and Missionary, in India 1546-1600. Born in a Sephardic Jewish family. Rejected by Franciscans because of his Jewish background he studied Canonic Law at Coimbra and in 1545 joined the S.J.…
HAEGHEN, Philippe van der. Brussels 24.2.1825 — Paris 1886. Belgian Scholar interested in Indology. Son of Guillaume van der Haeghen and Marie-Anne-Antoinette-Sophie De Wez. His biography is rather unclear, but he seems to have worked for several members of nobility as librarian, etc. He was a polymath who wrote on…
GRAEFE, Julius Carl Walter. Leipzig-Lindenau 30.7.1900 — Bangalore 16.11.1955. German Lutheran Missionary in India. Son of a merchant, school and studies in Leipzig, then 1921-25 Missionsseminar and 1925-26 studies of Sanskrit and Comparative Religion at Leipzig. Ph.D. 1928, now also ordained priest and left to India. Learned Tamil in Kodaikanal. In…
GARTHWAITE, James Grant Liston. 1833 — Glenelg, South Australia 21.12.1918. British Missionary and Teacher in India. Trained as teacher at Westminster College,London (B.A.). Worked for Basel Mission in Kerala, arrived at Bangalore 1853. From 1857 director of various schools in India. From 1868 Inspector of schools in Malabar and Canara.…
GALLOIS-MONTBRUN, Joseph Armand Pascal Antoine. Monaco 19.3.1793 — Nice 21.12.1875. French Colonial Officer. Son of Pierre Alexandre Gallois-Montbrun and Jeanne de Montalembert. Served in Martinique (1833), Pondichéry, and Réunion. Légion d’honneur 1856. Finally archivist of Alpes-Maritimes. Married 1813 Bathilde Laforest (d. 1828), Chantal Montbrun (d. 1844) and 1846 Gabrielle Parizet,…
FERGUSON, Alastair Mackenzie. Urquhart and Logie Wester (Cannon Bridge?), Rossshire 25.1.1816 — Colombo 26.12.1892. British (Scottish) Journalist in Sri Lanka. Son of John Ferguson and Ann Mackerras, brother of —> William Ferguson (1820–1887). Came to Ceylon in 1837 in the staff of Governor J. A. Stewart Mackenzie. Worked as planter,…
BREITHAUPT, Johann Christian. Dransfeld near Göttingen 26.9.1719 — Vepery, Chennai 17.11.1782. German Missionary in South India. Son of Christoph Breithaupt and his wife Katharina Elisabeth. School and from 1740 studies at Halle. From 1741 worked as teacher, ordained priest 1845 in Wernigerode. From 1746 missionary in Trankebar, 1747 in Cuddalore, from…