EGGERS, Wilhelm. Magdeburg 23.4.1888 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Son of a contractor (then geh. Baurat). Gymnasium 1898-1908 in Aschersleben, stopped at Unterprima without matriculation. After working one year at local aircraft factory studied in 1909-10 mechanical engineering at Karlsruhe technische Hochschule and in 1910-12 at Kolonialschule in Witzenhausen.…
EGGERS, Alexander Heinrich. Reval (Tallinn) 3.4.1864 (others 1867) — Karlshorst (Berlin) 13.6.1937. German (of Estonia) Schoolteacher, a former Student of Indology. Son of businessman Alexander Viktor Eggers (1828–1877) and Marie Hiekisch. Educated at Government Gymnasium in Reval (Tallinn) 1880-85. From 1885 studies of medicine and in 1886-91 of Comparative Grammar…
EGGELING, Hans Julius. Hecklingen bei Staßfurt (Harz) 12.7.1842 — Witten (Westfalen) 13.3.1918. German Indologist. Professor in Edinburgh. Son of landowner Sebastian Eggeling (1808–1842) and Elisabeth Müller. After Gymnasium in Bernburg, studies of classical philology and Sanskrit at Breslau and Berlin. In Breslau he became acquainted with Rhys Davids (they were…
ECKE, Emil-Wilhelm-Gustav. Bonn 13.6.1896 — Honolulu 18.12.1971. German Art Historian in China and U.S.A. Son of Gustav Ecke (1855–1920), Professor of Theology. From 1914 studies at Bonn, Berlin and Erlangen. Ph.D. 1922, on European art (French surrealism). In 1923 went to China, taught at several universities there: 1923-28 Amoy University,…
EBEL, Hermann Wilhelm. Berlin 10.5.1820 — Misdroy in Pomerania (now Międzyzdroje in Poland) 19.8.1875. German Linguist (IE and Celtic). Professor in Berlin. Son of a teacher, grew up in Berlin. Studies of classical philology (Böckh) and history at Berlin and Halle, soon also comparative linguistics under Pott and Bopp. Ph.D.…
DUTOIT, Julius Franz Gustav. Darmstadt 13.3.1872 — Munich 17.6.1958. German Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Son of a teacher of modern languages. Matriculated from the Gymnasium of Darmstadt in 1890. In 1890-93 studied classical philology at Munich, Giessen, and again Munich (also Indology under E. Kuhn). As student became Roman Catholic. Ph.D.…
DURSCH, Johann Georg Martin. Deggingen, Kr. Göppingen, Württemberg 11.11.1800 — Rottweil, Württemberg 21.2.1881. German Catholic Theologian interested in Sanskrit. Studies at Tübingen, ordained as priest in 1825. Dr.theol. and Ph.D. 1825. Then two and a half year studies of Oriental languages in Paris (under Chézy et al.). After returning he…
DUNCKER, Max(imilian) Wolfgang. Berlin 15.12.1811 — Ansbach 21.7.1886. German Historian and Politician. Son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker (1781–1869), a bookseller and publisher, and Fanny Auguste Levy. After Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium studies at Berlin under Hegel et al., for a while also at Bonn. Ph.D. 1834 Berlin. After some difficulties PD 1839…
DÜNTZER, Johann Heinrich Joseph. Cologne 12.7.1813 — Cologne 16.12.1901. German Librarian and Philologist. Son of merchant Johann Joseph Düntzer and Maria Cäcilia Seydlitz. After Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Cologne studied from 1830 at Bonn and from 1835 at Berlin classical philology and Sanskrit (under Bopp). Ph.D. PD 1837 Bonn. Noting that his…
DOROW, Wilhelm. Königsberg 22.3.1790 — Halle 16.12.1846. German Antiquarian Scholar. A precursor of Indian art history who, according to Mode, did not share the common contempt of Indian art of his times. Lost early his father, educated in Marienburg (Malbork in Poland). For a while studied at Königsberg. Moved 1811…