WYLIE, Turrell Verl (“Terry”, also called Ellwyn Turrell Wylie). Durango, Colorado 20.8.1927 — Seattle 25.8.1984. U.S. Tibetologist. Professor in Seattle. Son of Vernon Glenn Wylie (1889–1942) and Myrtle Lucy Davis (1894–1975). Graduated B.A. in 1952 at University of Washington, Ph.D. 1958 there in Chinese Language and Literature. As student also…
WOLFENDEN, Stuart Norris. London 1889 — Berkeley, Calif. 28.12.1938 (when 47). British Tibeto-Burman Linguist in the U.S.A. Son of physician Richard Norris Wolfenden and Jessie Stuart Jardine, born with somewhat crippled hip. Parents separated in practice 1892 (formally 1902) because of mother’s alcoholism, grew up with his father in Pangbourne,…
WENZEL, Heinrich Christian Ferdinand. Mainz 7.6.1855 — London 16.6. 1893. German Indologist and Tibetan Scholar in England. Son of Karl August Wenzel (1820–1894), a physician, and Amalia Ida Gabriele Michel (d. 1887). Educated in Mainz, matriculated 1874. Studies from 1874 at Jena, briefly at Leipzig and from 1876 at Tübingen.…
WELLER, Friedrich. Markneukirchen, Vogtland 22.7.1889 — Leipzig 19.11.1980. German Indologist. Professor in Leipzig. The only child of Friedrich Wilhelm Weller (1854–1944), a violin maker, and Marie Wettengel (1860–1953). Educated at local village school and from 1901 at Realgymnasium in Plauen. From 1909 studied at Leipzig, first Romance and Germanic philology,…
WALSH, Ernest Herbert Cooper. Derbyshire 7.3.1865 — 30.4.1952 (when 87). British Civil Servant in India, Numismatist and Tibetan Scholar. Son of the Wesleyan minister of Riddings, Thomas Harris Walsh (1821–1886), and Catherine Jane Tull (1823–1895). Educated at Trent College. Studied law at University College, London. In 1884 joined I.C.S. From…
WALLESER, Max Gebhard Lebrecht. Mannheim 18.6.1874 — Wiesloch (Baden) 15.4.1954. German Indologist, specialist of Buddhism. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of a schoolteacher (gymn.professor) Jacob Martin Walleser and Maria Magdalena Lend.Gymnasium in Mannheim.From 1891 studies at Heidelberg, Freiburg i. Br. and Geneva. In 1895/96 passed the Staatsexamen and started working as…
WALDSCHMIDT, Ernst Heinrich Franz. Lünen, Westfalen 15.7.1897 — Göttingen 25.2.1985. German Indologist and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in Göttingen. Son of Friedrich Ernst Waldschmidt (1870–1897), a bookbinder and merchant, and Elise Helene Goormann, the father died two months before his birth. Grew up with his mother and her parents in Lünen…
WADDELL, Laurence Austine. Cumbernauld, Dumbartonshire 29.5.1854 — 20.9.1938. British (Scottish) Physician and Tibetan Scholar in India. Son of Rev. Thomas Clement Waddell (1813–1880), a teacher and author, and Jean Chapman. Studied medicine and chemistry at Glasgow University, graduated in 1878 and worked two years as surgeon in Gasgow. In 1879…
ROSS, Edward Denison. London 6.6.1871 — Istanbul 23.9.1940. Sir. British Oriental (Persian) Scholar in India. Professor in London. Son of Rev. Alexander J. Ross, D.D., the vicar of St.Philip’s in Stepney, educated in Marlborough, studies at University College, London. Further studies of Arabic and Persian in Paris (under Scheferand Renan)…
ROERICH, Georg N. (Jurij Nikolaevič Rërih, George Nicolas de Roerich). Okulovka, Valdajskij raion, obl. Novgorod 3.(16.)8.1902 — Moscow 21.5.1960. Russian Tibetologist, lived long time in India. Professor in Moscow. Son of —> N. K. Roerich (1874–1948) and Elena Ivanovna Šapošnikova (1879–1955), grew up in St.Petersburg. When 15 began to study…