CAMPBELL, Donald

CAMPBELL, Donald. Argyll 1751 — Hurron, Essex 5.6.1804. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer. Son of an E.I.C. officer, politically a Hanoverian family. A cavalry officer, travelled to India via Venice, Aleppo, Baghdad, Bushire, and Bombay. On way to Madras he was shipwrecked and captured ny soldiers of Hyder Ali, but released…

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CALMEYER, Peter

CALMEYER, Peter. Halle 5.9.1930 — Berlin 22.11.1995.  German Archaeologist and Iranian Scholar. Son of Hans Georg Calmeyer, an attorney-at-law, and his wife Ruth, grew up in Osnabrück. After matriculation from Osnabrück studied from 1950 classical archaeology at Münster and Munich, from 1955 Near Eastern archaeology at F.U.Berlin. Ph.D. 1965. Then…

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BUSSON, Andrée

BUSSON, Andrée. Paris 25.2.1910 — Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) 9.12.1985. Mme. French Art Historian. Joined Société asiatique in 1949. In 1978 in Paris. In 2019 described as “licenciée ès lettres, chargée de mission au Musée Guimet”. Married Dr. André Busson (1902–1968). Publications: “Les fouilles françaises dans l’Inde du Sud (1949-1952)”, Arts as. 1,…

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BURTON-PAGE, John

BURTON-PAGE, John Garrard. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex 19.9.1921 — Church Knowle, Dorset 13.6.2005. British Indologist (Sanskrit and Hindi Scholar and Historian). Music studies (horn) at Royal College of Music were interrupted after one term through war service in India and Burma, learned now Hindi and Nepali and after war studied from 1946 Sanskrit…

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BURKE, Marie Louise (Sister Gargi, Pravrajika Prajnanaprana)

BURKE, Marie Louise (Sister Gargi, Pravrajika Prajnanaprana). 23.6.1911 — San Francisco 20.1.2004.  U.S. Author and Devotee of Ramakrishna Order. Introduced to the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda movement in 1948 by Swami Ashokananda (1893–1969). Took took her vows of Brahmacharya in 1974 in India. Died of cancer. Publications: Swami Vivekananda in the West: New Discoveries.…

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BUCCA, Salvador

BUCCA, Salvador (Salvatore Bucca). Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto near Messina in Sicily 30.10.1920 — Buenos Aires 30.12.2005. Argentinian (Italian-born) Linguist interested in the Upanishads. Born in Sicilly, studied at Pisa (graduated in classics 1944), then collaborator in the Lexicon Etruscum in Florence, moved to Argentina in 1948. Taught classics and Sanskrit…

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BRUNNER-LACHAUX, Helène

BRUNNER-LACHAUX, Helène (née H. Lachaux). L’Hérault 20.5.1920 — Lausanne 27.3.2005. French Indologist. Studied first mathematics and physics, CAPES 1942, and taught them at school in 1942-62, first in France, then 1951-53 Berchtesgaden, 1953-55 Addis Abeba and 1955-62 at Pondichéry French lycée. Now became interested in Śaivism and joined Filliozat’s Śaivasiddhānta team. Also…

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BRUIN, Cornelis de

BRUIN, Cornelis de (Bruyn, C. De Bruijn). the Hague 1652 — Utrecht 1727. Dutch Painter and Traveller. Son of Jan de Bruin. In 1672-1693 he went through Italy to Turkey, then to Syria and Egypt, coming back through Venice. The second trip began in 1701 when he first went via Archangelsk…

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BOURGEOIS, Danielle

BOURGEOIS, Danielle. 19?? — 2005. Belgian Alpinist. Married 1967 Jean Bourgeois (b. 1938). In 1969 they travelled in Afghanistan and found in Laghmān an Aramaic Aśokan inscription.  In 2000 they were living in Dinant. Publications: With J. Bourgeois: “Les inscriptions et dessins rupestres de la Vallée du Laghman”, Afghanistan 24:2-3, 1350…

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BONVALOT, Gabrie

BONVALOT,  Pierre Gabriel Édouard. Épagne (Aube) 13.7.1853 — Auteuil, Paris 10.12.1933. French Central Asian Explorer. Son of Pierre Bonvalot and Louise-Félicie Congniasse des Jardins, school in Troyes. In 1880-82 and 1886-87 expeditions to Russian Central Asia. In 1889-90 with Prince Henri of Orléans through Russia to Chinese Central Asia, then through…

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