THIMM, Carl Albert. 1856 — 1932. British Colonial Officer. Captain of 2nd London Rifles, served in South Africa, then worked as librarian. myheritage.com has C. A. Thimm born 1855 to Franz Louis Julius and Horatia Thimm, married 1881 in London Annie Helen, died 1932. In another part of the same, C.…
THESLEFF, Arthur. Viipuri (now Vyborg in Russia) 5.3.1871 — Stockholm 17.12.1920. Finnish Botanist (Mycologist) and Gipsy Scholar. Son of Colonel Fredrik Vilhelm Thesleff (1824–1893) and Olga Maria Thesleff (1830–1893). Grew up in family manor outside Viipuri, from 1886 gymnasium in Helsinki. From 1890 studied botany at Helsinki. He became interested in…
THEILKUHL, Wolfgang Adolf. Hilchenbach, Westfalen 18?? — 19??. German Student of Indology. Studies at Munich as early as 1918 (but for 1919-20 he is mentioned as student at Hamburg). Ph.D. 1926 (1929) Munich. The author of 1932 book was Lecturer at King’s College in London in 1828-33. Publications: Diss. Die Yogasūtrāṇi des Patañjali…
TAYLOR, John William. London 12.4.1782 — at sea off Sangar Island at the mouth of the Hoogli 20.7.1824. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. Son of James Owen Taylor (1744–1804) and Christiana Dixon (1750–1827). As captain, in 1808-23 Professor of Hindustani at Fort William College. Married Emma Maud Mary Gould (1793–1844),…
TAYLOR, Joseph Irwin. Ireland 1765/66 — 1811. British Colonial Officer in India. Born in Ireland, in an originally English Unitarian family, son of Joseph Taylor and his Indian wife. Went to India in 1783, advanced to Major (or Colonel?). Served in Bengal. According to 1808 title the dictionary was “originally compiled…
TANNER, Joseph Robson. Frome, Somerset 28.7.1860 — Aldeburgh, Suffolk 16.1.1931. British Historian. The eldest son of Joseph Tanner, an accountant, and Fanny Robson. Educated at Mill Hill School, London, studies at Cambridge (St.John’s College, fellow 1883). Lecturer in History at St.John’s 1883-1921, also Lecturer in Indian History at Cambridge, 1885-92,…
TANNER, Henry Charles Baskerville. Stroud, Gloucestershire 30.6.1835 (or Tasmania 1835?) —Avon, Somerset 16.3.1898 or Bath ?.3.1898. British Colonial Officer in India. Grew up in Western Australia, where his parents, William Tanner (1801–1845) and Hester Viveash (1804–1846), had emigrated in the 1820s, but in 1844 the family returned to England (Wiltshire). After…
TADDEI, Maurizio. Rome 3.3.1936 — Rome 5.2.2000. Italian Art Historian and Archaeologist of South Asia. Professor in Naples. Studies at La Sapienza in Rome, graduated 1961 (under Bussagli). In 1964-74 worked in Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale (Rome). From 1967 Professor incaricato of Indian Art and Archaeology at I.U.O.N. in Naples,…
SZAJAN, Włodzimir (Wołodymyr Petrovycz, Ukr. Volodimir Petrovič Šajan). Lemberg (then Austrian, now L’viv) 2.8.1906 — London 15.7.1974. Ukrainian Nationalist and Religious Enthusiast interested in Sanskrit. With his hometown became Polish citizen after WW I. Studied at Lwów (L’viv) philosophy, literature and Sanskrit (Stasiak). From 1934 on he propagated a “pan-Aryan” Slavic…
SYDENHAM, George. Madras 23.10.1785 — 1863. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Major-General William Sydenham (1753–1801) and Amelia Prime. As Captainworked for Major Colin Mackenzie’s survey of the Deccan. His brother, Thomas Sydenham (1780–1816), was British Resident in Haidarabad in 1805-10, G. Sydenham was political agent there. Then in…