SELTMANN, Friedrich. Stuttgart 21.2.1912 — 3.9.1997. German Indian and South-East Asian Scholar, specialist of Theatre Traditions (especially shadow puppetry). Studied Comparative Religion, Ethnology and Indology at Tübingen, Ph.D. 1960. Based in Stuttgart, in the 1970s and 80s several study travels to India and South-East Asia. In the late 1980s in…
SCHUMACHER, Karl. 1??? — ????. German Student of Religion. Ph.D. 1928 Tübingen. Publications: Diss. Ein Vergleich der buddhistischen Versenkung mit den jesuitischen Exerzitien. 8+78 p. Stuttgart 1929. Sources: Diss. in Janert.
SCHOFIELD, Sylvia Anne (née Terry-Smith, then Matheson). London 20.5.1916 — Javea, Spain 2.3.2006. British Archaeologist. Daughter of William Horace Smith, an architect and chartered surveyor, and Annie Terry, a Salvation Army officer, educated at Wimbledon Technical College. A free journalist from the age of 16, during WWII in BBC. She…
SCHMID, Deocar. Lobeda (now part of Jena) 14.11.1791 — Calcutta 3.12.1828. Rev. German Missionary in India. Son of Rev. Rudolf Ludwig Schmid and his wife (d. 1806), brother of —> Bernhard Schmid (1788–1857), also a missionary. After gymnasium in Naumburg studied 1808-13 theology at Jena. Worked as tutor, decided to…
SCHARBAU, Carl Anders (soon C. A. Skriver-Scharbau). Garstedt 8.12.1903 — 24.3.1983. German Priest and former Student of Indology/Religion. Became interested in Buddhism in 1920. A heart defect slowered his career, but later also saved him from war service in the army. Ph.D. 1932 Tübingen. Ordained 1933 in Hamburg. In 1934-58…
SALET, Pierre. Paris 10.11. or 9.3.1875 — Paris 20.11.1936. French Astronomer interested in religions. Son of Georges Salet (1844–1894) and Louise Zélie Roger d’Hostel. From 1899 student of astronomy at Paris Observatory, aide-astronome 1906, astronome adjoint 1912, astronome titulaire 1927. Married 1906 Marie Thérèse Bazin (1881–1970), three sons. Publications: Les…
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…