TREGEAR, Vincent. Truro, Cornwall 1787 — Haslar, Hampshire 24.1.1851 (findagrave.com Gosport, Hampshire 17.1.1851). British Colonial Officer in India. Colonel. Son of Henry Tregear and Elizabeth Doyle. In 1836 elected Honorary Member of A.S.B. One source seems to indicate a connection with Royal Navy. Married 1810 Catherine Sibyl Hodgkinson (1790–1831), seven…
TREBECK, George. Middlesex 1800 — Shah Merdon, Afghanistan 30.8.1825. British Traveller in Central Asia. Son of Charles Trebeck. In 1815 arrived at Calcutta with his father and brother, trained as a solicitor. In 1819 became Moorcroft’s assistant in his travels in Kashmir and Afghanistan. Died a few days after Moorcroft.…
TRAUTMANN, Felix Kurt Reinhold. Königsberg 16.1.1883 — Jena 4.10.1951. German IE and Slavic Linguist. Professor in Leipzig and Jena. Son of a merchant. In 1889-1900 at Gymnasium in Königsberg. In 1900 started study of exegesis at Königsberg, but in 1901 moved to Freiburg i.Br. to study modern languages. Under the…
TOUSSAINT, Gustave-Charles (Gustave Frédéric Charles). Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) 11.1.1869 — Paramé, Saint-Malo 12.10.1938. French Colonial Servant and Tibetan Scholar. Son of Benoît Toussaint, a railway inspector, and Hélène Feutrier. school and law studies in Rennes. In 1887-93 lawyer in Rennes. Then served in New Caledonia (1893-95) and Pondichéry (1895-97), then juge…
TÓTH, Edith. 1932 — India 13.7.1965 (when 33). Hungarian Indologist and Art Historian. Studied at Budapest Tibetan (Ligeti), Indology (Harmatta & Gaál) and Museology (Horváth). Worked in Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern-Asian Art, first under Baktay, then his successor at the Keeper of Indian collection. Died on a visit to…
TORRENS, Henry Whitelock. Canterbury 20.5.1806 — Calcutta 11.8.1852. British Civil Servant and Indologist in India. Son of Major-General Henry Torrens (1779–1828, of Northern Ireland) and Sarah Patton (1781–1863). Educated at Brook Green, the Charterhouse, and Oxford (Christ Church; B.A. 1825). Entered the Inner Temple and served in Foreign Office, but…
TOMSON, Aleksandr Ivanovič (Thomson). Near Dorpat (Tartu), Livonia 3.(15.)6.1864 — Odessa 27.11.1935. Russian (Estonian) Linguist (Phonetician), Scholar of Slavic, Sanskrit and Armenian. Son of Estonian parents, Juhani and Emilia Thomson. From 1882 studies at St.Petersburg, graduated 1887. Further studies in Moscow, under Fortunatov and Korsch, wrote his diss. on Armenian (dr.…
TOLFREY, William. 1778 — Colombo 4.1.1817. British Colonial Officer in India and Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of a colonial official (in India?), grew up in England. He came to the island in 1805, after having served in army in India in 1794–1805, participating in Mysore and Maratha wars.…
TOKARZ, Franciszek. Wronowice 5.2.1897 — Cracow 5.7.1973. Rev. Polish Catholic Priest and Indologist. Son of Maciej Tokarz.and his wife Antonina Educated in Nowy Sącz and Chyrów, then studies at Jesuit Colleges of Nowy Sącz and Cracow. Ordained priest 1924. In 1934 quitted S.J. Worked as priest in Lwów, in 1938…
TOD, James. Islington (London) 20.3.1782 — London 17.11.1835. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer, Indologist and Numismatist in India. Son of James Tod and Mary Heatly, born in London, but educated in Scotland. In 1798 became cadet, with the help of his uncle, 1799 came to Bengal. Lieutenant 1800. In 1801 was…