RIX, Helmut

RIX, Helmut. Amberg 4.7.1926 — Colmar, Alsace 3.12.2004. German Linguist (IE and Italic). Son of a teacher, Hans Rix and his wife Susanne. In WW II served in navy, then studies of IE, classics and history at Würzburg and Heidelberg. Ph.D. 1950 Heidelberg. In 1951-55 Assistant of Krahe at Tübingen,…

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NEUMANN, Käthe

NEUMANN, Käthe. Berlin 14.7.1903 — Emmerich am Rhein 14.8.1989. German Scholar of Religion and former Student of Indology. Daughter of Otto Neumann and his wife Minna. Studies of Germanistics and Indology at Greifswald and Berlin, then comparative religion at Marburg. Ph.D. 1933 Marburg (under Nobel). From 1937 curator in charge…

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MARSCHNER, Käthe

MARSCHNER, Käthe. 1904 — ????. German Student of Indology. Pupil of O. Strauss in Breslau. Ph.D. there 1933 (under Strauss). Publications:diss. Zur Verfasserfrage des dem Śaṁkarācārya zugeschriebenen Bṛhadāraṇyakopa­niṣad-Bhāṣya. 5+86 p. Breslau 1933. Sources: Nothing found except the diss.; birth year in Hathitrust catalogue.

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LEVY, Robert I.

LEVY, Robert Isaac. New York 1.6.1924 — Asolo, Italy 29.8.2003. U.S. Anthropologist with Psychoanalytic background. Son of Nathan Levy and Miriam Israelson. He was trained as a psychoanalytic psychiatrist (dr.med. 1947) and had a private practice in psychiatry for several years, before turning to anthropology. In 1961 and 1962-42 Fieldwork…

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KRÁSA, Miloslav

KRÁSA, Miloslav. Libočany 6.1.1920 — 16.4.2004.  Czech Indologist. Studied Hindi under Pořízka at Prague 1943-47 and in 1947-48 at Allahabad, graduated 1953. In 1954-97 taught at Prague. Publications: The Temples of Angkor. Monuments to a Vanished Empire. 272 p. London 1963. – Unending Discoveries of Eastern Cultures. 208 p. Prague 1966.…

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JOHNSON, Edwin Lee

JOHNSON, Edwin Lee. Mount Vernon, Ill. 25.10.1874 — Nashville, Tennessee 15.10.1947.  U.S. Linguist. Son of Rev. Adam Clarke Johnson (1832–1899) and Margaret Ann Sweeney (1846–1898). High School in Oxford, Miss. Studied at Mississippi University (A.B. 1894) and Vanderbilt University (A.M. 1900). Ph.D. 1910 Vanderbilt. Taught Latin and Greek at Quitman…

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JAMESON, Michael H.

JAMESON, Michael Hamilton. London 15.10.1924 — Stanford 18.8.2004. U.S. Classical Scholar. Born in London where his parents, Raymond D. Jameson and Rose Perel. were visiting from Peking, where his father was Professor of Western Literature. Grew up in Peking and London. A.B. 1942 University of Chicago in Greek. In 1943-46…

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HORSLEY, William Henry

HORSLEY, William Henry. Teddington, Middlesex 28.10.1812 — England 8.2.1893.  British Colonial Engineer Officer. Son of of George Henry Horsley of Middlesex and Frances Elizabeth Harding. After Addiscombe a year of specialist training at Chatham and then joined Madras Engineers. Mainly involved with civil engineering projects, especially in Travancore. Finally Lieutenant-Colonel.…

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HARLE, James (Jim) C.

HARLE, James (Jim) Coffin. Santa Monica, Calif. 5.4.1920 — 27.6.2004. U.S. Art Historian in the U.K. Son of James Wyly Harle and Elfrieda Frances Baumann. Educated at St George’s School in Newport, RI, studies at Princeton (B.A. 1942). In 1942-46 in war service in U.S.N.R., Aviation Branch, retired as Lieutenant.…

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HARDY, Friedhelm E

HARDY, Friedhelm Ernst (Fred). Köln 4.3.1943 — Reading 4.8.2004. German Indologist and Scholar of Indian Religion in the U.K. Brought up by his mother as father had died in the end of war. Started studies of Indology at Münster (under Hacker) and Heidelberg. In 1966 came to the U.K. and…

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