STEIN, Burton. Chicago 1926 — 26.4.1996. U.S. Historian of South Asia. Grew up in Chicago. Served in WW II, then studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago (no B.A., M.A. 1954, Ph.D. 1957). Taught 1957-65 at Minneapolis and 1965-83 at University of Hawaii. After early retirement from Hawaii moved…
STURTEVANT, Edgar Howard. Jacksonville, Ill. 7.3.1875 — Branford, CT 1.7.1952. U.S. IE and Hittite Scholar. Professor in New Haven. Son of Alfred Henry St. (1850–1930), a farmer, and Harriet Morse (1850–1923). After Indiana College in Jacksonville (it was founded by his grandfather) studies at Indiana University (A.B 1898) and University…
SCHUYLER, Montgomery (Jr.). Stamford, Conn. 2.9.1877 — New York 1.11.1955. U.S. Diplomat and Indologist. Son of the elder Montgomery Schuyler (1843–1914), a famous diplomat, author and journalist, and Katherine Beeckman Livingston (1842–1914). After Trinity School studied at Columbia University in New York under A. V. Williams Jackson (A.B. 1899, A.M.…
SPOONER, Elizabeth Colton (née Elizabeth Swester Colton). 7.8.1851 — Oakland, Calif. 1927. U.S. Oriental Scholar. From Easthampton, Mass., daughter of Rev. Aaron Merrick Colton (d. 1895 in Easthampton) and Zerviah Elizabeth Good (d. 1858). Studied Sanskrit at Harvard under Lanman. In 1911 married her former co-student —> D. B. Spooner…
SPOONER, David Brainerd. Vermon, Vermont 7.2.1879 — Agra 30.1.1925. U.S. Indologist and Archaeologist in India. Son of elder D. Br. Spooner and Mary Morton. Studied at Stanford University in California. After graduation (B.A. 1899) he went to Japan and studied Sanskrit at Imperial University, then at Sanskrit College in Varanasi.…
SPIEKER, Edward Henry. Baltimore, MD 18.4.1859 — Baltimore, MD 2.2.1918. U.S. Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Baltimore. Son of Henry Spieker and Margaret Elizabeth Dorges. Educated at Baltimore City College and from 1877 studied at Johns Hopkins (A.B. 1879). Ph.D. 1882 Johns Hopkins. Taught at Johns Hopkins: 1880-82…
SOPER, Alexander Coburn, III. Chicago 18.2.1904 — Rosemont, PA 12/13.1.1993. U.S. Art Historian. Son of Alexander Coburn Soper Jr. (1872–1930) and Bertha G. Dunlop (1876–1952). Graduated B.A. 1925 from Hamilton College and studied architecture at Princeton (M.A. 1929). In 1935-38 living in Japan studying local art and architecture. Ph.D. 1944…
SNYDER, Edmund Nathaniel. St.Louis, MO 25.3.1863 — Cleveland 1.10.1896. U.S. Student of Indology. Son of Joseph B. Snyder (1832–1915) and Christine Chiron (1839–1919), educated in Cleveland, Ohio. From 1882 studied classics at Harvard (A.B. 1886). From 1888 studied Indology (Weber) and comparative linguistics at Berlin. In 1890 taught one year…
SMYTH, Herbert Weir. Wilmington, DE 8.8.1857 — Bar Harbor, ME 16.7.1937. U.S. Classical (Greek) Scholar also interested in Indology. Son of Clement Biddle Smyth, an iron manufacturer, and Sarah Ann Sellers. Educated at Swarthmore (A.B. 1876) and Harvard (A.B. 1878) Further studies in Germany: 1879-81 Leipzig, 1881-83 Göttingen. Ph.D. 1884…
SHAFER, Robert Lloyd (Schafer). 1893 — 1969. U.S. Linguist and Sino-Tibetan scholar. Ph.D. Director of Sino-Tibetan Linguistic Project at U.C. Berkeley. Famous, but rather much criticised for his brave hypotheses. Publications: “Nahālī, a linguistic study in paleoethnography”, HJAS 5, 1940, 346-371; “Linguistics in History”, JAOS 67, 1947, 296-305; other articles.…