ZEBROWSKI, Mark Kandel. Springfield, Mass. 11.12.1944 — London 22.8.1999. U.S. Architect and Art Historian in the U.K., Specialist of Mughal Period. Born in a Polish-Italian family, grew up in Enfield, Conn., educated at Dartmouth College. Studied at Harvard. In 1967 served in Peace Corps in India and became interested in Mughal…
ZAFIROPULO, Ghiorghio. Marseille 7.6.1909 — Pâlis (Aube) 18.8.1993. Greek Sculptor in France. Born of Greek parents in France, son of Polybe Zafiropulo (1868–1951) and Sophia Economo von San Serff (1869–1939), grew up in Marseille. In the 1930s living in Paris and Vienna, now began his artistic career. During WW II…
WURM, Paul. Blaubeuren 30.11.1829 — Calw 31.3.1911. Rev. German Lutheran Priest and Scholar of Religion . Son of Julius Friedrich Wurm (1791–1839), a theologian and classical scholar, and Karoline Friederike Faber (1792–1854). Graduated in theology 1851, served as priest in various parts of Württemberg. In 1864-75 taught theology at Missionshaus…
WOODHOUSE, Edmund. Finningley, Nottingham 1841 — Tanga, German East Africa (Tanzania) 1895. This death in Jayasuriya, but ancestry.com claims Warmbaths, Transvaal, South Africa 26.5.1937. British Planter, Writer and Traveller in Sri Lanka. Son of Rev. Gervas Harvey Woodhouse (1802–1882) and Miriam Pigot. Probably came to Ceylon in 1865. Coffee planter…
WHITNEY, Loren Harper. 12.9.1834 — 1912. U.S. Lawyer Interested in Religions. Worked in Chicago (1905). Publications: Life and Teachings of Zoroaster, the Great Persian, including a comparison of the Persian and Hebrew religions, showing that “the word of the Lord” came to the Hebrews by way of Persia. Part second offers…
WEIDENBACH, Hermann. 1901 — 19??. German Student of IE. Ph.D. 1932 Heidelberg. Google knows another diss. Das Geheimnis der Schweren Basis: Das Jery slavenicum!. 31 p. Heidelberg 1928. Publications: Diss. Das Jery indogermanicum. 45 p. Mannheim 1932. Sources: Diss in Janert.
VAUDEVILLE, Charlotte Louise Marie. La Tronche (Isère) 1918 — Poissy (Yvelines) 28.4.2006. Mademoiselle. French Indologist, a Specialist of Bhakti Religion and Poetry. Professor in Paris. Studied classics and Indology in Paris (Bloch and Renou): licence-ès-lettres 1939 Sorbonne (in classics), certificat d’études indiennes (Sanskrit) 1942 and diplome des langues orientales (Hindi) 1943.…
TSEREPES, Georgios N. (Giorgios Tserepis; Γεώργιος Τσερέπης). 1836 — 1908. Greek Linguist. From Cephallonia (?). In 1891 Docent of Sanskrit at Athens. Publications: Translated Meghadūta: Nephelangelos, poiēmation indikon (Νεφελάγγελος, ποιημάτιον ινδικόν). 1878. – Indika meletēmata(Ινδικά Μελετήματα). 1884. – Also wrote on Greek language. Sources: Scanty stray notes in Internet.
TREWEEK, Athanasius Pryor. Sydney 29.12.1911 — Sydney 20.1.1995. Australian Classical Scholar, Linguist and Mathematician. The only child of teacher Walter Henry Treweek (b. 1866 in Cornwall, d. 1920) and nurse Mary Matilda Dwyer (1872–1953). After Saint Ignatius’ College in Riverview he studied classics and mathematics at Sydney. Ph.D. 193?. From…