RIDGEWAY, Thomas (Tom) Bruce. Chewelah, co. Stevens, WA 30.9.1949 — Seattle 15.4.2005. U.S. Linguist. Son of Colonel Gordon Blais Ridgeway (1918–2003) and Margaret Adelaide Carlock (1922–2015), grew up in Taiwan and Germany. Went to India as a Peace Corps Volunteer. B.A. in chemistry. Ph.D. 1986 University of Washington. Started mainly as…
PULGRAM, Ernst. Vienna 18.9.1915 — Ireland 17.8.2005. U.S. (Austrian-born) Linguist, Specialist of Italic and Romance Languages. Son of tailor Sigmund Pulgram. Educated in Vienna,1934 began studies at Vienna under Kretschmer et al., Ph.D. 1938 in Romance philology. After Anschluss he had to escape from the Nazis as a Jew in…
PROKOSCH, Eduard. Eger, Bohemia (Cheb, Czechia) 15.3.1876 — New Haven, Conn. 11.8.1938. U.S. (born Austrian) Linguist, Specialist of IE and Germanic. Son of Wenzel Prokosch, a schoolmaster, and Marie Fischer. Studied jurisprudence at Prague and Vienna (advocate examination 1897). Emigrated to the U.S.A. 1898 (citizen 1904). Worked briefly as reporter…
PINGREE, David Edwin. New Haven, CT 2.1.1933 — Providence, RI 11.11.2005. U.S. Indologist and Historian of Science. Son of Daniel Pingree (1902–1986) and Elizabeth Maconi. Grew up in Providence and attended school there. Graduated 1950 from Phillips Academy in Andover. Studied Sanskrit, classics and mathematics, then also Arabic, at Harvard. Mainly…
PIKE, Albert. Boston 29.12.1809 — Washington, D.C. 2.4.1891. U.S. Author, Poet, Orator, Editor, Lawyer. and Confederate General. Son of Benjamin Pike and Sarah Andrews. Grew up in Byfield and Newburyport, Mass. Self-educated, worked as teacher in Gloucester, North Bedford, Fairhaven and Newburyport. In 1831 left for west, stayed first in…
PETERS, John Punnett. New York City 16.12.1852 — New York City10.11.1921. U.S. Oriental Scholar. Son of Rev. Thomas McClure Peters and Alice Clarissa Richmond, as child ofetn ill. After Hopkins School studies at Yale (B.A. 1873). Ph.D. 1876 Yale. Ordined priest 1877. Further studies at Berlin (1879-81) and Leipzig (1882-83).…
MILLER, Robert James. 18.9.1923 — Camano Island, Wash. 13.4.1994. U.S. Anthropologist. B.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ph.D. 1958 University of Washington. in Seattle. Then taught three years there, from 1959 at Anthropology Dept. of University of Wisconsin in Madison, retired 1988. Married 1943 —> Beatrice Diamond Miller (1919–1999), at…
MILLER, Beatrice Diamond. New York City 29.5.1919 — Camano Island, Wash. 15.5.1999. U.S. Anthropologist. Daughter of Benjamin Diamond and Fannie Haims. B.A. 1948 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in Oriental Studies. Ph.D. 1958 University of Washington in Seattle. Taught at Beloit College (Wisc.) and University of Wisconsin in Madison. Married…
LISKER, Leigh. Philadelphia, Pa. 7.12.1918 — Ibid. 24.3.2006. U.S. Indologist (Dravidian Linguist). Professor in Philadelphia. Studies at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia: B.A. 1941 in German, M.A. 1946 and Ph.D. 1949 in Linguistics. Taught at University of Pennsylvania: 1948-51 Instructor, 1951-60 Assistant Professor, 1960-64 Associate Professor and from 1964 Professor…
LEONARD, John Greenfield. Los Angeles 18.3.1936 — Arizona 9.11.1985. U.S. Historian. Son of Charles Mather Leonard (1908–1978) and Gladys Greenfield Harris. Studies at Stanford (B.A. 1959) and University of Wisconsin in Madison (M.A. 1962). Ph.D. 1970. At University of Wisconsin (1967), from 1968-73 at University of California in San Diego…