ASBOE, Walter B. Hopedale, Labrador 1895 — Dublin 1965. Rev. British (Canadian) Missionary. Son of Andrew Asboe. From 1921 (or 1925?) Moravian missionary in Kyelang (Lahul), then in Ladakh from 1939 to 1947, director of an industrial school in Leh. Minister in East Tytherton, Wiltshire from 1948-52. Married 1924 in…
ARVON, Henri (né Heinz Aptekmann). Bayreuth 9.3.1914 — Antony (Haut-de-Seine) 2.12.1992. French (born German Jew) Philosopher. Matriculated 1933 from Bayreuth, but could not begin studies in Nazi Germany. He moved to France with his fiancée and began studies at Strasbourg. In 1937 to military service and obtained French citizenship. After army…
ANDERSON, John. Edinburgh 4.10.1833 — Buxton, Derbyshire 15.8.1900. British (Scottish) Zoologist In India. Son of Thomas Anderson., Secretary of National Bank of Scotland, and Jane Cleghorn. School and medical studies in Edinburgh. M.D. 1862 (with zoological diss.). Two years Professor of Natural History at Free Church College in Edinburgh, then…
ARBUTHNOT, Alexander John. Killaloe, Clare county, Ireland (or Farmhill, Mayo county) 11.10.1822 — 10.6.1907. Sir. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Alexander Arbuthnot (1768–1828), the Anglican Bishop of Killaloe, and Margaret Phoebe Bingham. Educated at Rugby and Haileybury. Joined I.C.S. 1842, served in Madras. As Director of Public…
ANATRIELLO, Pasquale. 1912 — 1986. Father. Italian Missionary of P.I.M.E. (Pontificio Istituto Missionari Estere) and Burmese Scholar. Ph.D. Rome 1969. In 1951-60 parish priest of Loikaw in Karen area. Then at Pontificio Istituto Missioni Estere Trentola Ducenta in Caserta. Publications: “‘Vipassana’ un metodo di meditazione buddista”, Rivista di ascetica e…
AITKEN, Edward Hamilton. Satara, Maharashtra 16.8.1851 — Edinburgh 11.4.1909. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. James Aitken, a missionary of Free Church of Scotland, educated in Bombay by his father. Studies at Bombay University, B.A. and M.A. In 1870-76 Reader in Latin at Deccan College. Then served…
ADAM, Leonhard. Berlin 16.12.1891 — Bonn 9.9.1960. German Ethnologist in Australia (naturalized 1956). Son of Meinhardt Michael Adam and Katharina Clare Rosa Schmidt. Gymnasium in Berlin. From 1912 studied law, economics, ethnology and Sinology at Berlin and Greifswald, LL.D. 1916 Greifswald. Worked as judge in Berlin, but kept his interest…
ABERIGH-MACKAY, George Robert. Bengal (?) 25.7.1848 — Indore 12.1.1881. British (Scottish) Teacher in India. Son of Rev. Dr. James Aberigh-Mackay, D.D. (1820–1908) and Lucretia Livingston Reed, educated privately in Scotland. Studies at Oxford (Magdalen College School) and Cambridge (St.Catherine’s College). Joined Indian Education Department in 1870 in Bareli, 1873 Professor…
PEAL, Samuel Edward. Marylebone, Middlesex 31.12.1834 — Moran, Sibsagar, Assam 29.7.1897. British Lay Ethnographer and Botanist. Son of Abraham Samuel Peale (1799–1838) and Sarah Elizabeth Penson. Originally an artist, in 1862 went to India and became a tea-planter near Sibsagar, on the edge of the flood plain of the Brahmaputra.…
ZISTL, Karl Georg. Hengersberg, Bavaria 1885 — Friedrichshafen 1953. German Librarian. Studied Indology (E. Kuhn) and Musicology at Munich, but in 1911 began as wissenschaftlicher Hilfsarbeiter in the Munich university library. Military service in WW I, seriously wounded. Returned to library in 1919. Catalogued Oriental and Slavic collections. Retired 1952. Married…