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.…
SAUNDERS, Virginia. 18?? — 19??. U.S. Indologist. Living in New York City. Publications: “Portrait Painting as a Dramatic Device in Sanskrit Plays”, JAOS 39, 1919, 299-302; “Some Literary Aspects of the Absence of Tragedy in the Classical Sanskrit Drama”; JAOS 41, 1921, 152-156; “Magic in Sanskrit Drama”, JAOS 45, 1925,…
SALISBURY, Edward Elbridge. Boston, Mass. 6.4.1814 — New Haven, Conn. 5.2.1901. U.S. Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Professor in New Haven. Son of Josiah S. (1781–1826) and Abigail Breese (1780–1866), a learned American family. Educated by his father, then at Boston Latin School. Studies ofGreek and Hebrew atYale, graduated 1832. After…
WYLIE, Turrell Verl (“Terry”, also called Ellwyn Turrell Wylie). Durango, Colorado 20.8.1927 — Seattle 25.8.1984. U.S. Tibetologist. Professor in Seattle. Graduated B.A. in 1952 at University of Washington, Ph.D. 1958 there in Chinese Language and Literature. As student also visiting scholar in Rome, studied under Tucci. From 1958 taught at…
WOODS, James Haughton. Boston 27.11.1864 — Tokyo 14.1.1935. U.S. Indologist. Professor in Cambridge MA. Son of Joseph Wheeler Woods and Caroline Frances Fitz. Studies at Harvard (A.B. 1887) and Cambridge Theological Seminary. Further studies at Berlin in 1889-91, Oxford 1891 and Strassburg 1894-97. Ph.D. 1896 Strassburg. Teaching at Harvard: from…
WOOD, Francis Asbury. Point Bluff, Wis. 17.1.1859 — La Jolla, Calif. 19.6.1948. U.S. IE and Germanic Linguist. Professor in Chicago. Son of Rev. Harvey Colcord Wood and Ann Jane Ellis. Educated at Northwestern University (A.B. 1880, A.M. 1883). In 1988-90 further studies at Göttingen in Germany. In 1890-93 Professor of…