WILSER, Ludwig Johann Daniel. Karlsruhe 5.10.1850 — Heidelberg 19.11.1923. German Physician and Racist Theoretician. Son of merchant Ludwig Wilser (1817–1880) and Lydia Baeurle. Gymnasium in Karlsruhe, from 1869 medical studies at Freiburg, Heidelberg and Leipzig. Dr.Med. 1875 Freiburg. Then practising physician in Karlsruhe until 1897, when he moved to Heidelberg…
WIDGERY, Alban Gregory. Bloxwich, Staffordshire 9.5.1887 — Winchester, Va. 22.3.1968. British Scholar of Religion in the U.S.A. Son of Rev. John Thomas Widgery and Ellen Thomas. Studies at Cambridge (St.Catharine’s College, B.A. 1908, M.A. 1912). From 1908-10 taught at Bristol University, 1910-12 further studies at Marburg, Jena and Sorbonne. Then…
WICKI, Josef. Zürich 30.6.1904 — Feldkirch, Vorarlberg 17.2.1993. Fr. S.J. Swiss Historian of Missions. Son of Franz Wicki and Rosa Witprächtiger. Joined S.J. in 1922 in Tisis near Feldkirch. Studied philosophy at Berchmanskolleg in Pullach, Bavaria, and theology at Barcelona and Innsbruck. Dr. Theol. Rome. In 1935-88 worked in the…
WESTPHAL, Heinz. 1912 — 21.12.1984. German Physicist, Mathematician and Photographer. Ph.D. Professor in Staatliche Ingenieur-Schule Gauss. From 1953 husband of —> Sigrid Westphal-Hellbusch (1915–1984) with whom he collaborated in anthropological fieldwork in Iraq, Pakistan and India. Photographer of the team. After 1976 they were living in Oldenburg. No children. Publications:…
WESTCOTT, George Herbert. Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex 18.4.1862 — Allahabad 16.1.1928. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Rev. Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901), then Bishop of Durham, and Sarah Louisa Mary Whithard. Educated at Marlborough College, studies from 1882 at Peterhouse, Cambridge (B.A. 1885, M.A. 1899). Ordained 1886, after…
WEINREICH, Uriel. Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius. Lithuania) 23.5.1926 — New York City 30.3.1967. U.S. (born Polish Jew) Linguist. Son of linguist Max Weinreich (1894–1969), a specialist of sociolonguistics and Yiddish, originally from Courland, and Regina Szabad (1898–1974), a teacher. Came via Denmark to New York with his father in 1940,…
WAUCHOPE, Robert Stuart (until 1920 R. S. Wahab). Bengal 20.3.1887 — 1943. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of a Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab (1855–1921) of Indian army and Catherine Mary Ward (d. 1896). Joined army in 1906, 1910 appointed to Survey of India. After military duties in 1914-21 its…
WARDEN, John. 1805? — after 1853. British Civil Servant in India. Worked as police in Bombay Presidency, later (1845) judge in Bombay and Poona (Pune). Married Ella Maria Smith (1804–1829) and then 1831 in Bombay Harriet Lodwick (1812–1853), four sons and two daughters. Publications: “On the Customs of Gosawees or Gosaeens”,…
WARD, Charles Henry Spurgeon. Halton by Leeds, Yorkshire 21.7.1876 — Wells, Somerset 17.3.1957. Rev. British Missionary in Sri Lanka. Son of Amos Ward (1848–1930) and Zilpah Whitaker. Worked in Ceylon in 1902-35. then returned to the U.K. Married 1906 in Sri Lanka Mabel Jane Straughan Lawrence (1876–1937), children, and as…
WARD, Benjamin Swain. 1786 — Cape Town 19.6.1835. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Francis Swain Ward (1736–1794). Lieutenant of Madras infantry. In 1799-1810 worked under C. Mackenzie in Mysore survey. Together with Ltn. —> P. E. Conner conducted the survey of Travancore and Cochin 1810-21. He was also…