SCHMID, Toni (Antonia Elisabeth Magdalena). 25.9.1897 — Uppsala 16.12.1972. Austrian Scholar of Religious History and Tibetan Iconography in Sweden. Daughter of a wealthy mill-owner. Dr.ph. 1922 Vienna. Moved to Sweden and worked in Swedish national archives. Hon. fil.dr. 1931 Lund. Hon. teol.dr. 1958 Uppsala. In 1944-68 eo. Antikvarie in Vitterhetsakademie.…
SCHENKL, Karl. Brünn (Brno) 11.12.1826 — Graz 20.9.1900. Austrian Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Son of a schoolteacher and classical philologist. Studies of classics and law in 1845-49 at Vienna, then also under Curtius at Prague. Ph.D. 1849 Vienna. Worked first as schoolteacher in Prague. In 1857-64 Professor of Classical…
WALDE, Alois. Innsbruck 30.11.1869 — Innsbruck (Prabook: Königsberg) 3.10.1924. Austrian IE and Classical Scholar. Son of Ludwig Walde and Anna Filz, educated in Innsbruck. In 1888-92 studies of Classics and IE at Innsbruck, Ph.D. there 1894 (under Stolz). PD 1895 Innsbruck, also worked in university library, then eo. Professor 1904-09.…
ROCK, Joseph Francis Charles (Josef Franz Karl). Vienna 13.1.1884 — Honolulu 5.12.1962. Austrian-born U.S. Botanist, Geographer and Central Asian Scholar. Son of the steward of a Polish count. In 1905 emigrated to the U.S.A. (naturalized 1913). He settled in Hawaii in 1907 for 13 years, studied and taught botany and…
REICHELT, Hans (Johann). Baden bei Wien 20.4.1877 — Ibid. 11/12.5.1939. Austrian Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor in Graz. Son of Leo R., the owner of a printing press, and Luise Schemel, educated in his home town. In 1896-98 studied IE, classical, Germanic and Indo-Iranian philology (Bühler et al.) at Vienna, then under…
TROYER von Aufkirchen, Anton (Anthony). Klattau, Bohemia (now Klatovy in Czech) 1775 (not 1769!) — Royaumont near Paris 2.6.1865. Austrian Officer and Indologist in India and Paris. Son of Lieutenant Joseph Tr. v. A. of an old family of nobility. From 1787 studied at Military Academy of Wien-Neustadt. From 1791…
TIEFFENTHALER, Joseph. Bozen in South Tyrol (now Bolzano in Italy) 27.4.1710 — Lucknow 5.7.1785. S.J. Father. Austrian Missionary, Astronom and Geographer in India. Jesuit novice in 1729 in Landsberg, Bavaria, trained in Germany. In 1740 to Spain, ordained priest 1743. Still in 1743 left Portugal for Goa, worked and travelled…
TEDESCO, Paul Maximilian. Vienna 5.5.1898 — New Haven 17.12.1980. Austrian Indo-Iranian Scholar in the U.S.A. Professor in New Haven. Son of Oscar Isidor T., a a Slovakian Jew and civil engineer, and Thekla Tiktin. Studies at Vienna. Ph.D. 1920 Vienna (under B. Geiger). In 1924-36 gymnasium teacher in Austria. He…
POSCH, Udo. 1922 — 1965. Austrian Turcologist and Tibetologist in the U.S.A. Originally he was a student of Duda in Turcology at Vienna University, but had quarreled with his teacher. Then he wrote a Tibetological dissertation to R. Bleichsteiner and was conferred Ph.D. 1949 (Vienna). In 1952 he taught at…
POKORNY, Julius. Prague 12.6.1887 — Zürich 8.4.1970. Austrian (Bohemian) IE and Celtic Scholar in Swizerland. Professor in Berlin and Zürich. Son of Samuel Christian P. and Margarete Riegner. Educated in Prague and Kremsmünster. Studies of law (degree 1910), philology and linguistics at Vienna, student of Kretschmer. Ph.D. 1912 (diss. on…