AUSTIN, Jack. Caerleon, Newport, Wales 16.7.1917 — 15.8.1993. British Bauddha. Reading of Edwin Arnold turned him into Buddhism. Joined A. Govinda’s Arya Maitreya Mandala, led its British branch. Living in London. Friend of Christmas Humhreys. Married 1949, four children. Publications: Translated: The Dhammapada, a New Version. L. 1945, 6th ed. 72…
AUROUSSEAU, Léonard Eugène. Cannes 12.7.1888 — Yerres, Île-de-France 24.1.1929. French Sinologist. Son of Paul Jules Aurousseau and Anaïs Stéphanie Forestier. Educated at colleges of Montluçon (Allier) and Montbéliard (Doubs), then at Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. Studied Chinese at É.P.H.É. (Chavannes) and É.L.O.V. In 1909 to Indochina as soldier, also allowed…
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…
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.
TATE, George Passman. Bengal 22.7.1856 — Bengal 1941. British (Anglo-Indian?) Civil Servant in India. As Assistant Superintendent of the Surveyor General of India he conducted critical surveys in Afghanistan such as Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission (1895-96) and Seistan Arbitration Mission (1903-05). In 1899-1900 in similar office in Hong Kong, then again…
TALAMO, Vincenzo. Ardore, Reggio Calabria 7.3.1914 — 2006. Italian Physician interested in Buddhism. In 1925 family moved to Turin, then back in Reggio. Interested early in Buddhism, but studied medicine at Naples and Florence. In the war served in Liguria and Balkan as medical officer. At armistice joined Tito’s partisans,…