SHARPE, Phoebe Elizabeth (née Lavnder). Bangalore 1888 — 8.1.1941. Miss. British Authoress interested in Indian Society. No scholar. Daughter of Horace William and Alice Lavender. In 1905 married John Charles Sharpe (1877–1943), an officer, but later separated (no formal divorce). She spent more than twenty years in India and was…
SHAKESPEAR, John. Indore 1.9.1861 — 1942. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Colonel Sir Richmond Campbell Shakespear (1812–61, served in India) and Marian Sophia Thompson (1825–1899). “Educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst, entered the Army, 1881, and became Major, 1895. Intelligence Officer, Lushai and Chin-Lushai expeditions, 1888-9, … Superintendent,…
SHAKESPEAR, John (elder). 14.8.1774 — Langley Priory, Leicestershire 14.6.1858. British Oriental (Hindi/Urdu, Arabic and Persian) Scholar. Professor in Addiscombe. Son of a small farmer, John Shakespear, who died when he was 11, and his wife Martha. Educated at the parish school and privately. He studied Arabic in London in order…
SEWELL, Robert. Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight 4.6.1845 — London 30.12.1925. British Civil Servant, Historian, and Indologist in India. Son of Robert Burleigh Sewell, solicitor in Isle of Wight, and Marianne Billingsley Seymour (1815–1849). Educated at St. Peter’s College, Radley. Joined I.C.S. and arrived in India in December 1868, served in…
SENN, Alfred. Blotzheim, Alsace (then Germany) 19.3.1899 — Ashford, CT 9.2.1978. Swiss Linguist of Baltic, German and IE in Lithuania and the U.S.A. Born of Swiss parents in Alsace near Swiss border as the son of a farmer, Alfred Senn and Berta Affolter. School in Goldach and St.Gallen, studied at…
SENART, Émile Charles Marie. Reims 26.3.1847 — Paris 21.2.1928. French Indologist. Private Scholar in Paris. Born in a rich merchant family, son of Jacques Senart (1794–1860) and Elise Colombier (1807–1881). He was educated at lycée in Reims, studied three years at Munich (under Haug) and Göttingen (Benfey). Served in Franco-Prussian…
SELLE, Stefan Hans Götz von. Torgau, Sachsen 28.1.1893 — Göttingen 6.10.1956. German Historian and Iranian scholar. Son of Hans von Selle, an officer (later colonel), and Augusta von Hanstein. After school in Steglitz studied at Berlin, Kiel and Göttingen German history, art history and Iranian. Ph.D. 1920 Göttingen, in history. From…
SELIGMAN, Charles Gabriel (until 1914 Seligmann). London 24.12.1873 — 19.1.1940. British Anthropologist. Originally a physician (pathologist), soon interested in anthropology. The only child of Hermann S., a wine merchant, and Olivian Mendez da Costa, a middle class Jewish family. Educated at St.Paul’s school. Studied pathology in London (M.D.), then worked…
SEIDENSTÜCKER, Karl Bernhard (Girimānanda, Bruno Freydank). Gerbstedt, Mansfeld-Südharz 23.3.1876 — Leipzig 29.10.1936. German Bauddha and Buddhist Scholar. Son of a vicar (Oberpfarrer), Karl S. and his wife Luise (d. 1897), gymnasium in Halle. From 1895 studies of science and medicine at Göttingen, 1900 switched to philosophy and philology at Leipzig…
SEELY, John Benjamin. St.Pancras, London 1786 — India 1826. British Colonial Officer in India. Captain in Bombay Native Infantry. He gave the first detailed account of Elura caves and temples. Son of Lawyer John Seely and his wife Lucinda. He himself tells, to excuse his poor education, that he went…