WINSLOW, Miron. Williston, County Chittenden, Vermont 11.12.1789 — Cape Town 22.10.1864. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Tamil Lexicographer in South Asia, where he remained in 1819-64. Son of Nathaniel Winslow (1761–1831) and Anna Kellogg (1766–1810). From the age of 14 worked as store clerk, but then turned to religion. Graduated from…
WINANS, Samuel Ross. Lyons Farms, NJ 1.3.1855 — Princeton, NJ 25.7.1910. U.S. Classical Philologist also interested in Sanskrit. Son of the elder S. R. Winans (1796–1887) and Ann D. Woodruff (1810–1880). Educated at Princeton (A.B. 1874, Ph.D. 1882). In 1876-81 tutor in Greek, 1881-83 adjunct Professor of Greek and instructor…
WHITNEY, William Dwight. Nothampton, Mass. 9.2.1827 (hardly 1828) — New Haven, Conn. 7/8.6.1894. U.S. Indologist. Professor in New Haven. Born in an old Yankee family as the son of a businessman and banker, Josiah Dwight Whitney (1786–1869), and Sarah Williston (1800–1833). Educated in 1842-45 at Williams College (B.A. 1845). In…
WHEELER, Benjamin Ide. Randolph, Mass. 15.7.1854 — Vienna, Austria 3.5.1927. U.S. Classical and IE Scholar. The only son of Rev. Benjamin Wheeler (1807–1876), a Baptist priest, and Mary Eliza Ide (1822–1884). Educated at Franklin Academy, NH. Studies at Brown University 1871-75 (A.B. 1875, A.M. 1878), instructor at the same 1879-81.…
WELDEN, Ellwood Austin. 1883 — 19??. U.S. Scholar and Diplomat, former Student of Indology. Studies of comparative philology (with Sanskrit), Classics and Romance linguistics at University of Pennsylvania. Ph.D. 1906 there. Further studies at Harvard, Berlin and Bologna. From 1910 Lecturer in Romance Languages at Bryn Mawr. In WW I…
WARREN, William Fairfield. Williamsburg, MA 13.3.1833 — Brookline, MA 7.12.1929. Rev. U.S. Theologian and Scholar of Religion. Episcopal priest. Son of Mather Warren (1800–1869) and Anna Miller Fairfield (1800–1867). Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. and Andower Theological Seminary, then at Berlin and Halle. In 1860-66 taught at Methodist…
WARREN, Henry Clarke. Boston, MA 18.11.1854 — Cambridge, MA 2/3.1.1899. U.S. Indologist (Buddhist Scholar). Son of Samuel Denis Warren (1817–1888), a wealthy paper manufacturer, of an old yankee family which came from England in the 17th century, and Susan Cornelia Clarke (1825–1901). As a baby he fell from the carriage…
WARNER, Langdon. Cambridge, Mass. 1.8.1881 — ibid. 9.6.1955. U.S. Art Historian and Central Asian Explorer. Son of advocate Joseph Bangs Warner (1848–1923) and Margret Woodbury Storer (1845–1922). Educated at Harvard College (A.B. 1903). Participated in Pumpelly–Carnegie Expedition to Trans-Caspia in 1904-05. In 1906-13 Assistant Curator of Oriental Art in Museum…
WARE, James Roland. 1901 — 27.2.1991 (or 1993?). U.S. Buddhist Scholar and Sinologist. Studies of Indology (and probably Classics) at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (Edgerton), then further studies of Indology, Tibetan and Chinese in Paris (Lévi et al.). Ph.D. Around 1924 Instructor of Latin at Lehigh University in Bethlehem,…
RYDER, Arthur William. Oberlin, Ohio 8.3.1877 — Berkeley 21.3.1938. U.S. Indologist. Professor in Berkeley. Son of merchant William Henry Ryder (1842–1918) and Mary Elizabeth Bushnell (1844–1878). Began studies at Ann Arbor, but graduated 1894 from Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., then studies at Harvard (A.B. 1897, under Lanman) and in…