CUTTAT, Jacques-Albert (pseudonym Jean Thamar). Delémont, canton Jura 1909 — Bern 5.6.1989. Swiss Diplomat, Lawyer and Esotericist. Son of a wealthy banker. School in Basel. Studies at Bern, London and Paris. Dr. (of Law?). From 1935 worked as diplomat, also PD of Commercial Law at Bern. For a while taught…
SCHELLER, Meinrad. Zürich 17.5.1921 — 24.4.1991. Swiss Sanskrit and IE Scholar. Professor in Zürich. Grew up in Zürich. Studies from 1940 at Zürich under M. Leumann, Pokorny and Risch, also in Paris. Ph.D. 1948 (under Leumann). Further studies 1949-51 in Paris, some time also at Prague. In 1951-54 worked for…
SALVIONI, Carlo. Bellinzona 3.3.1858— Milano 20.10.1920. Swiss Linguist in Italy. Professor in Milano. Son of Carlo Salvioni, a printer and book-dealer, and Martina Borsa. Educated in Lugano (knew there M. Bakunin). Studies at Basel, soon changed medicine into linguistics and in 1878 went to Leipzig. Ph.D. 1883 there under Brugmann.…
PETER, Friedrich A. Leh, Ladakh 1904 — 1988. Swiss Priest and Tibetan Scholar. Son of Friedrich E. Peter (d. 1945), who was Herrnhutian Bishop in Ladakh. Himself originally an architect, but soon turned to theology and became a priest. In 1930 returned to Ladakh and worked at the mission station…
SCHÖNFELD, Karl. Schaffhausen 1878 — Locarno 10.7.1949. Swiss Teacher and former Student of Indology. After school and gymnasium in Winterthur studied in 1897-98 classical and Romanic languages at Neuenburg (Neuchâtel) Academy, then 1898-1900 Sanskrit, IE, classics and Hebrew at Göttingen (Kielhorn) and 1900-03 classics and IE and philosophy at Zürich…
SCHWYZER, Eduard. Zürich 15.2.1874 — Berlin 3.5.1943. Swiss IE Scholar in Germany. Professor in Zürich, Bonn and Berlin. Son of coppersmith Johann Eduard Schweizer (1845–1910) and Sophie Ernst, grandnephew of —> Schweizer-Sidler (1815–1894; who was also his teacher in gymnasium). Educated in Zürich, matriculated 1892. Studies at Zürich (Kaegi, Hitzig)…
SCHWEIZER-SIDLER, Johann Heinrich (originally J. H. Schweizer). Elgg, canton Zürich 12.9. 1815 — Zürich 30.3.1894. Swiss IE Scholar. Professor in Zürich. Son of Anton Schweizer, the minister of Elgg, and Anna Margaretha Hess, family from Zürich. He intended himself to become a priest, but at school became fascinated with classical languages.…
SENN, Alfred. Blotzheim, Alsace (then Germany) 19.3.1899 — Ashford, CT 9.2.1978. Swiss Linguist of Baltic, German and IE in Lithuania and the U.S.A. Born of Catholic Swiss parents in Alsace near Swiss border as the son of a farmer, Alfred Senn and Berta Affolter, home in Bennwill, Canton Basel. School…
SCHAUFFELBERGER, Daniel Franz. Paris 1819 — 1???. Swiss Student of Classical Philology and Indology. Son of Daniel Franz Schauffelberger of Neuchâtel and Eleonora Lardy. Educated in Neuchâtel and Geneva. Studies at Tübingen, Halle and Bonn. Ph.D. 1845 Bonn. In his vita he himself states that he was born in 1819…
SCHACHT, Hans. Gränichen, Aargau 21.3.1863 — 1943/44. Swiss Teacher interested in Sanskrit. Educated at Collège classique de Sion and Gymnase classique de Lausanne. Studies of classics (and Sanskrit?) at Berlin University. Ph.D. 1890 Berlin. After a while as private tutor in Łodz he taught in 1895-98 at Collège and École…