DOBBINS, Keith Walton. Stamford, Texas 14.8.1942 — Camden, Ark. 21.4.2006. U.S. Historian and Numismatician. Son of Alfred Vernon Dobbins (1910–1992) and Grace Mildred Connell (1911–2004). Graduated from Camden High School 1961, studied at Hawaii (M.A.) and Canberra. Ph.D. 1972 A.N.U. in history. In 1976 at University of Sydney in Australia,…
DELLA SANTINA, Peter C. U.S.A. 1950 — Penang, Malaysia 14.10.2006. U.S. Buddhologist. Grew up in Connecticut. Became blind because of glaucoma when about 11 and later turned to Buddhism. For a while in Spain, then as teacher in Peru. Studied at Wesleyan University (B.A. 1972 in Religion). M.A. 1974 and…
CLARK, Mary Mead (née Mary Jane Mead). Amenia, NY 1832 — 1924. U.S. Missionary in India. Daughter of John King Mead (1799–1873) and Jane Amanda Sutherland (1807–1885). Married 1858 the missionary —> Edward Winter Clark (1830–1913), participated then in his work in Nagaland. Their only daughter died young. They retired…
BRIGHT, William Oliver (Bill). Oxnard, Calif. 13.8.1928 — Louisville, Color. 15.10.2006. U.S. Linguist and Indologist. Professor in Los Angeles. Son of a butcher. Graduated 1945 from Oxnard High School, where he showed an early interest in languages. Studies of medicine, soon of Spanish and linguistics at University of California in…
ZEBROWSKI, Mark Kandel. Springfield, Mass. 11.12.1944 — London 22.8.1999. U.S. Architect and Art Historian in the U.K., Specialist of Mughal Period. Born in a Polish-Italian family, grew up in Enfield, Conn., educated at Dartmouth College. Studied at Harvard. In 1967 served in Peace Corps in India and became interested in Mughal…
WHITNEY, Loren Harper. 12.9.1834 — 1912. U.S. Lawyer Interested in Religions. Worked in Chicago (1905). Publications: Life and Teachings of Zoroaster, the Great Persian, including a comparison of the Persian and Hebrew religions, showing that “the word of the Lord” came to the Hebrews by way of Persia. Part second offers…
SWARTZBERG, Leon Sommers, Jr. Manhattan, NY 29.12-1921 — Ashland, OR 5.8.2001. U.S. Anthropologist. Son of the elder L. Swartzberg and Sidney Nichols. Participated in WW II. In 1962 as a graduate student of Columbia University (New York) participated in fieldwork in Bihar and collected material for his dissertation. M.A. 1966,…
STANLEY, M. Victor. near Omro, Wisc. 1866 — 19??. U.S. Studied at Lawrence University, 1887-1892, then at University of Wisconsin (B.A. 1893) and University of Oregon (M.A. 1894, LL.B. 1904). Ph.D. 1895 Yale. In 1900 admitted to bar, for a while practised in Portland, Oregon. Then teaching Latin, soon Supervising-Principal…
SINCLAIR, Albert Thomas. Brighton, Middlesex, Mass. 4.12.1844 — Boston, Mass. 21.4.1911. U.S. Lawyer and Gipsy Scholar. Son of Thomas Sinclair (1805–1883) and Caroline Abby Tracy. Worked as lawyer in Brighton, then in Boston. Married 1889 Mary Terrell Ross (1863–1902), three daughters. Publications: “An American-Romani vocabulary, by Albert Thomas Sinclair; comp. and…
RYAN, Bryce Finley. Youngstown, Ohio 1911? — Miami 17.4.2005, when 94. U.S. Sociologist. Studied at University of Washington (B.A.), at universities in Texas (M.A.) and Louisiana and at Harvard (M.A. 1937). Ph.D. 1940 Harvard. Taught at Iowa State University, Rutgers University, at University of Ceylon in Peradeniya and Wayne State University.…