ZALOSCER, Hilde (Hildegard Zaloszer). Tuzla, Austro-Hungarian empire (now in Bosnia-Hercegovina) 15.6.1903 — Vienna 20.12.1999. Austrian Art Historian and Egyptologist. Professor in Alexandria, Egypt. Daughter of a Jewish lawyer and state official, Jacob Zaloscer (1869–1951) and Bertha Kallach (1881–1939). The family moved in 1918 to Vienna, where she then studied prehistory…
WOODTHORPE, Robert Gosset. Purfleet, Essex 22.9.1844 (or 26.5.) — 28.10.1920 (niceartgallery, Wikidata has 26.5.1898}. British Colonial Officer in India, Explorer and Amateur Artist. Major-General. Son of navy officer John Bolton Woodthorpe and Emily Howard. Educated at Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. In 1865 joined Royal Engineers, soon to India. In…
WOLLASTON, Arthur Naylor. Beulah Hill, Norwood, Surrey 14.10.1842 — Walmer, Kent 8.2.1922. Sir. British Oriental Scholar. Son of Henry Francis Wollaston (1803–1876) and Elizabeth Rumsey Naylor. Educated at Stockwell Grammar School. In 1859 (when only 16) joined Political Department of India Office, worked under John Kaye, later moved to Revenue,…
WIRZ, Paul. Moscow 29.5.1892 — Ulopu, Maprik, Papua New Guinea 30.1.1955. Swiss Ethnologist. Born of Swiss parents in Russia, son of Jakob Wirz (1856–1904), a businessman from Basel, and Louise Nidecker. School in Moscow and Zürich. Studied physics and chemistry at Technische Hochschule in Zürich, but soon turned to Ethnology…
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,…