SCHINDLER, Jochem. Amstetten, Niederösterreich 8.11.1944 — Prague 24.12.1994. Austrian IE Linguist. Educated in Linz. Studies of IE and Romance Linguistics at Vienna and Würzburg (Kronasser). Ph.D. 1972 Würzburg. In 1972-74 Assistant at Vienna. In 1974-76 Assistant Professor, 1976-78 Associate Professor and from 1978 Professor at Harvard, but in 1987 returned…
ROSENBAUM, Ernst (nom-de-plume Dr. Ernst Roenau). Vienna 6.11.1888 — 1938?. Austrian Translator. Son of Ignáz Rosenbaum and Hermine Zuckerbäcker. Dr.iuris. Worked in graphic industry of his family (“Brüder Rosenbaum”) and translated narrative literature as E. Roenau (apparently adapted for children). Married Adelheid. Publications: Ein Sanskritmärchen nacherzählt. 79 p. Vienna &…
MŽIK, Hans von. Rzeszów, Galicia (now in Poland) 24.7.1876 — Vienna 4.3.1961. Austrian Historian of Geography. Son of an officer, gymnasium in Troppau (now Czech Opava) Studied at Vienna law, soon Oriental languages, history and geography. Ph.D. 1904. From 1903 worked in Vienna Hofbibliothek (then National Library). PD 1917 Vienna…
MELZER, Uto (Utho) Ottomar von, Edler von Tapferhaim. Graz 18.10.1881 — 22.2.1961. Austrian Iranian Scholar. Son of Ignaz Melzer (1817–1906), an officer, and Sara Heinrike Nagy (1854–1927). Educated in Graz and from 1900 worked as schoolteacher. He wrote pan-German nationalistic poetry and served in WW I in Russian and Italian…
SCHÖNBERG, Ignaz. Baraczhaza, Hungary (now Barateaz in Romania) 7.4.1860 (hardly 1856) — Vienna 29.1.1886. Austrian (or German) Indologist. Son of Markus Schönberg (1820–1898) and Johanna Chaja Katalin. Educated in Temesvar (Timişoara) and Pest, in 1873 the family moved to Vienna. Student of Bühler at Vienna University, Ph.D. 1884. In May…
STREITER, Friedrich Amadeus Johann Maria. Bozen (Bolzano) 2.11.1833 — Bozen 28.1.1894. Austrian Industrialist, former student of Indology. Born in the then Austrian South Tiroli, son of Joseph Maria Johann Bernhard Streiter (1804–1873) and Johanna Katharina Anna Holer (1802–1837). After school in Bozen and Innsbruck he entered military college in Graz,…
SCHRAM, Robert Gustav. Lemberg (L’viv) 18.1.1850 — Vienna 23.12.1923. Austrian Astronomer and Geodecist. Born in the then Austro-hungarian part of Ukraine, son of lawyer Adolf Schram. After gymnasium in Cracow from 1869 studies at Vienna. Ph.D. and PD 1874 Vienna. In 1872-73 briefly Assistant at Geneva observatory, then Th. von Oppolzer’s…
STROHAL, Emil Ernst. Klagenfurt 29.7.1874 — Leipzig 7.3.1902. Austrian Student of Indology. The eldest son of Emil Strohal (1844–1914), a legal scholar. Roman Catholic. Gymnasium in Graz. In 1893-94 studied law at Graz, then switched to Indology (Kirste), soon at Göttingen (Kielhorn) and 1895-96 at Vienna (Bühler). A serious illness…
STRZYGOWSKI, Josef. Biala, Austrian Silesia (now Bielsko-Biała in Poland) 7.3.1862 — Vienna 2.1.1941. Austrian Art Historian. Professor in Vienna. Son of a cloth manufacturer, Josef Strzygowski (1823–1877), and his wife Josefine Fraas, Edle von Friedenfelt (1833–1909), a Roman Catholic of minor nobility. In 1880 took apprenticeship in a weaving plant,…
SPRENGER, Aloys. Nassereith, Ober-Innthal, Tyrol 3.9.1813 — Heidelberg 19.12.1893. Austrian Oriental Scholar, in India 1842-56. then Professor in Bern. Son of a customs officer, Christoph Sprenger, and Therese Dietrich, gymnasium in Innsbruck. Studied from 1832 medicine and Oriental languages at Vienna (Hammer-Purgstall), then from 1836 in London. British citizen 1838.…