FREUDENBERG, Johann Philipp. Raubacher Hütte bet Dierdorf, Kr. Neuwied 18.2.1843 — Colombo 2.2.1911. German Merchant in Sri Lanka. Son of an industrialist. Entered business and served in a coffee firm in Cologne, Rotterdam, Marseille and London. In 1873 went to Colombo and established his own, very succesful firm. From 1876 Imperial…
FRERE, Henry Bartle Edward. Clydach, Monmouthshire 29.3.1815 — London 29.5.1884. Sir, Bart. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Edward Frere, manager of ironworks, and Mary Ann Green, educated at Bath and Haileybury. Went to India in 1834 by the overland route (in fact, mostly by ship) via Cairo, Quseir,…
FRENKIAN, Aram. Constanţa 19.3.1898 — Bucharest 10.9.1968. Romanian Classical (Greek) Scholar interested in Indology. Son of Armenian refugees, Haroutioun Fr. and Zarouhi Essayan. Studies of Greek, linguistics and Sanskrit in Paris in the 1920s under Meillet, Bloch, Finot et al., also philosophy under Bréhier. Ph.D. 1931 Bucharest. Professor of Greek…
FREJMAN, Aleksandr Arnol’dovič. Warsaw 10.(22.)8.1879 — Leningrad 19.1.1968. Russian Iranist, specialist in Middle Iranian. Professor in Leningrad. Son of an official. After gymnasium in Warsaw in 1889-99, studies of Indo-Iranian and Armenian at Oriental Faculty (under Salemann, Žukovskij, Ol’denburg, Ščerbackoj and Marr) and of linguistics (under Bulič and Baudouin de…
FREI, Henri. Baar, Zug 5.6.1899 — Hedingen, Canton Zürich 14.11.1980. Swiss Linguist. Professor in Geneva. Son of Gustav Adolf Frei, an industrialist, and Ida Dändliker. Studies of linguistics at Geneva and Paris (É.L.O.V.) until 1926 (including New Indo-Aryan and Japanese). Ph.D. 1929 Geneva (under Bally). In 1933-34 Professor at National…
FRAUWALLNER, Erich. Wien-Währing 28.12.1898 — Vienna 5.7.1974. Austrian Indologist and Tibetan Scholar. Professor in Vienna. Son of the financial secretary (later wirkl. Hofrath) Friedrich Fr. and Maria Barbara Riedler. School in Vienna. In 1915 started learning Sanskrit still as a schoolboy. In 1916 to army, served two and a half…
FRASER, James Nelson. 1869 — Bombay 12.3.1918. British Civil Servant in India. In Educational Department, Principal of the Training College in Bombay for Teachers in Secondary Schools. Publications: Deccan College: A Retrospect 1851–1901. 160 p. Poona 1902. – Transl. with K. B. Marathe: The Poems of Tukārām. 1-3. Madras 1909-15.…
FRASER, James. 1713 — Easter Moniack, Inverness-shire 21.1.1754. British (Scottish) Factor in India, Historian and Manuscript Collector. Son of Alexander F. (d. 1733) of Reelick near Inverness. Residing in Surat in 1730-40 he is said to have learned Sanskrit and Avestan (at least he knew Persian). Back in England started…
FRANZÒ, Gregorio. 23.6.1879 — 19??. Italian School-Teacher interested in Indian Thought. Teacher (Professor) of “materie letterarie” at R. Ginnasio superiore in Grosseto (Tuscany). Still active with Greek in 1946, now perhaps in Leghorn. Publications: “Sulle relazioni delle Dottrine del Sâṁkhya coll’ antica filosofia greca fino ad Anassagora”, Annali di lettere…
FRANZÉN (born Pettersson), Gustaf Oskar. Grebo, Östergötland 21.10.1861 — Stockholm (or Umeå?) 4.2.1914. Swedish Medical Missionary in India. Son of Frans Reinhold Pettersson and Katharina Persdotter. A physician. In India as early as 1898, served in Bijori (Madhya Pradesh). Wrote articles on Gond religion in Swedish. Married 1894 Esther Höjer…