RYAN, Bryce Finley. Youngstown, Ohio 1911? — Miami 17.4.2005, when 94. U.S. Sociologist. Studied at University of Washington (B.A.), at universities in Texas (M.A.) and Louisiana and at Harvard (M.A. 1937). Ph.D. 1940 Harvard. Taught at Iowa State University, Rutgers University, at University of Ceylon in Peradeniya and Wayne State University.…
RUNDGREN, Gustav Frithiof. Stockholm 25.12.1921 — Uppsala 16.9.2006. Swedish Semitic and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Uppsala. Grew up in Stockholm. From 1939 studied Semitics at Uppsala (Nyberg): fil.kand. (M.A.) 1950, fil.lic. 1951, Ph.D. 1955. In 1949-55 teacher of Hebrew at Uppsala, PD 1955. In 1964-88 Professor of Semitic Languages at…
RÜPING, Klaus. Burg near Magdeburg 8.8.1940 — 7.9.2005. German Indologist. Professor in Münster. Son of economist Erich Rüping and his wife, elementary school teacher Hildegard Rüping, grew up in Bochum, gymnasium there until 1959. Then studies of Classics at Münster, from 1963 also Indology (under Hacker), 1963-64 one year at Bonn.…
ROGER RIVIÈRE, Juan. 1903 — ????. Spanish Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Active as early as 1947. Professor of Indology (or Oriental Art) at Complutense in Madrid in the 1960s. Publications: El pensamiento filosófico de Asia. 533 p. Madrid 1960. – La India. 262 p. Barcelona 1962. – “The problem of…
RÖSEL, Richard. 1.5.1902 — ????. German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1928 Tübingen. Then teacher (Oberstudienrat) in Hof. Publications: Diss. pp. 60-100 of his book Die psychologischen Grundlagen der Yogapraxis. 135 p. Beiträge zur Philosophie und Psychologie 2. St. 1928. Sources: Stray notes in Internet.
RIENCOURT, Amaury de, Marquis. Orléans 18.6.1918 — Bellevue, Switzerland 13.1.2005. French Historian, Indian, South-East Asian and Tibetan Scholar. Born in an old family of nobility, son of Marquis Olivier de Riencourt and Anne Le Bas du Plessis. Graduated from Sorbonne, M.A. Algiers. In 1939-40 served in French navy. In 1947…
RIDGEWAY, Thomas (Tom) Bruce. Chewelah, co. Stevens, WA 30.9.1949 — Seattle 15.4.2005. U.S. Linguist. Son of Colonel Gordon Blais Ridgeway (1918–2003) and Margaret Adelaide Carlock (1922–2015), grew up in Taiwan and Germany. Went to India as a Peace Corps Volunteer. B.A. in chemistry. Ph.D. 1986 University of Washington. Started mainly as…
REUTHER, Oskar August. Herner, Sauerland 20.10.1880 — Heidelberg 5.8.1954. German Historian of Architecture. Son of merchant O. A. Reuther. Studied 1899-1904 architecture at Technische Hochschule Dresden, soon interested in archaeology. Worked as architect in Berlin, in 1905-12 also participated in Koldewey’s excavations in Babylon. Ph.D. 1909 Dresden. Then also in other…
REDARD, Georges. Neuchâtel 4.4.1922 — Kirchlindach 24.1.2005. Swiss IE and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Neuchâtel and Bern. Son of post official Arnold Ernest Redard and Mathilde Kröpfli. Studies at Neuchâtel: 1940 baccalauréat ès lettres (with Hebrew), 1943 licensié ès langues classiques (with Russian, Lithuanian, Persian and Sanskrit); then at Bern…
RAVEAU, Régine Gisèle Francette. Poitiers (Vienne) 17.5.1922 — Saint-Sébastien-du-Morsent (Eure) 9.12.1997. French Teacher interested in Sanskrit. Daughter of a winegrower. Studied German at Poitiers and Sanskrit in Paris. Ph.D. Librarian of Société asiatique, 1951 in Calcutta. Then schoolteacher of German. From 1936 active communist. Publications: “L’adaptation des lois de Manu chez les…