PHILLIPS, Maurice. Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire 11.4.1839 — Southport, Merseyside 27.8.1910. Rev. British (Welsh) Missionary in India. Studies at Bedford College, in 1861 left for Madras. From 1862 worked for London Missionary Society in Salem, Coimbatore and from 1891 in Madras, retired 1908 and returned to the U.K. Fellow of Madras University…
PHEAR, John Budd. Earl Stonham, Suffolk 9.2.1825 — Exmouth, Devon 7.4.1905. Sir. British Lawyer in India. Son of Rev. J. Phear, a rector, and Catherine Wreford. Educated privately, studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850), then Fellow, Lecturer of Mathematics and Assistant Tutor at Clare College, Cambridge. “Senior…
PHAYRE, Arthur Purves. Shrewsbury 7.5.1812 — Bray near Dublin 14.12.1885. Sir. British (Irish Protestant) Colonial Officer and Burmese Scholar. In Burma 1834-74. Son of Richard Phayre (1761–1830) and Mary Ridgeway. “Educated in Shrewsbury, entered the Bengal Army, 1828. Served in the administration of Burma, 1834-48, in the Panjab, 1848-9; Commissioner…
PFUNGST, Arthur Joseph. Frankfurt a.M. 9.3.1864 — Frankfurt a.M. 3.10.1912. German Industrialist, Poet and Bauddha. Son of Jewish parents, Julius Pfungst (1834–1899), a tobacco merchant, and Rosette Bertha Oppenheim (1839–1922). Studied chemistry and mathematics at Leipzig (Ph.D. 1886). Succeeded his father as one of the owners of Naxos-Union (manufacturing grinding…
PEZZI, Domenico. Turin 20.4.1844 — Turin 24.10.1905. Italian IE Scholar. Professor in Turin. Studies at Turin, among other things Sanskrit under Flechia. Ph.D. 1865. Taught at Turin University (Facolta di lettere): from 1871 aggregato alla Facoltà, from 1876 incaricato del corso di grammatica greca, from 1878 Professore straordinario di grammatica…
PETTAZZONI, Raffaele. San Giovanni in Persiceto, near Bologna 3.2.1883 — Rome 8.12.1959. Italian Anthropologist, Archaeologist and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Professor in Rome. Son of Cesare Pettazzoni and Maria Luigia Minezzi. Studies of archaeology, etc. at Bologna and Rome. Ph.D. 1905 Bologna. From 1909 worked at Sardinian Department of Antiquities…
PETERSON, Peter. Edinburgh 12.1.1847 — Bombay 28.10.1899. British (Scottish) Indologist in India. Professor in Bombay. Son of merchant John Peterson and Grace Mountford Anderson. Father was a native of Shetland Islands, therefore also the son often described himself as Shetlander. Educated in Edinburgh, then studies of Indology, etc., at Edinburgh…
PETER, His Royal Highness, Prince of Greece and Denmark (Πέτροϛ). Paris 3.12.1908 — London 15.10.1980. Greek Anthropologist. Son of Georg, Admiral of Greece and Denmark (1869–1957) and Marie Bonaparte (1882–1962), younger brother of King Constantin I of Greece. Himself Royal Admiral of Greece. Grew up in France (he never lived…
PERTSCH, Ludwig Karl Wilhelm. Coburg 19.4.1832 — Gotha 17.8.1899. German Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Librarian in Gotha. Son of Ludwig Pertsch, a lawyer, lost early his father. After Coburg Gymnasium studied from 1850 at Berlin Oriental languages, especially Sanskrit under Weber. After one term under Roth at Tübingen returned to…
PERTOLD, Otakar. Jaroměř, Hradec Králové 21.3.1884 — Prague 3.5.1965. Czechoslovakian Indologist and Anthropologist. Professor in Prague. Born in Northern Bohemia as the son of Jan Pertold, a chemist and owner of a sugar factory. Educated in Slany 1894-1902, then studies of classical philology, philosophy, Oriental languages (under Zubatý et al.)…