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…
DORN, Johann Albrecht Bernhard (Boris Andreevič) von. Scheuerfeld bei Koburg 11.5.1805 — St.Petersburg 19.5.(31.5.)1881. German Oriental (Iranian) Scholar in Russia. Son of Heinrich Wilhelm Dorn (1770–1836), a minister, and Susanna Friederike Bühl. Gymnasium in Coburg. Studies from 1822, first Theology, soon Oriental languages, at Halle and Leipzig. Ph.D. and PD…
DILLMANN, Christian Friedrich August. Illingen bei Maulbronn 25.4.1823 — Berlin 4.7.1894. German Semitic Scholar, famous Pioneer of Ethiopian Studies. Professor in Berlin. Son of Elias Dillmann (1794–1877), a school principal, and Christiana Louisa Wiemeg (1790–1835). Studied theology and philology at Tübingen, mainly under Ewald, but also Roth and Schleicher. Ph.D.…
DIETZ, Friedrich Reinhold. Königsberg 12.1.1805 — Königsberg 5.6.1836. German Physician and Philologist (Historian of Greek and Oriental Medicine). School and from 1823 studies of medicine and philology at Königsberg, Dr. med. there 1826. With a scholarship by the government travelled in France, Italy, England and Spain studying Greek, Arabic and…
DEUSSEN, Paul Jakob. Oberdreis/Westerwald, Kr. Neuwied 7.1.1845 — Kiel 6.7.1919. German Indologist and Philosopher. Professor in Kiel. Son of Adam Deussen (1801–1887), a minister, and Jakobine Ingelbach. Attended Gymnasium in Elberfeld and Landesschule in Pforta, where his classmate and future life-long friend Friedrich Nietzsche introduced him to Schopenhauer’s philosophy. In…
DENECKE, Walter. 18?? — 19??. German Indologist. Apparently student of Jacobi and Schubring. Ph.D. Hamburg 1923. Publications: Diss. Digambara-Texte. Eine Darstellung ihrer Sprache und ihres Inhalts. Manuscript of 95 p. Hamburg 1923 (8 p. summary printed). – “Mitteilungen über Digambara-Texte”, Festgabe H. Jacobi 1926, 160-168. Sources: Diss. in Janert; not…
DELIUS, Nikolaus. Bremen 19.9.1813 — Bonn 18.11.1888. German Linguist. Professor of English in Bonn. Son of a merchant, Everhard Delius (1777–1866) and Magdalena Gloystein (1793–1833), educated at Gymnasium in Bremen. Then studies of classical and Indian philology at Bonn (von under Schlegel and Lassen) and Berlin (Bopp). Ph.D. Bonn 1838,…