CLARK, Walter Eugene. Digby, Nova Scotia 8.9.1881 — Vista, Calif. 30.9.1960. U.S. Indologist. Professor at Harvard. Born in Canada, but the family moved to the U.S.A. in 1883. Son of Hallet Sylvester Clark (1863–1928), a ship’s cabinetmaker, and Hannah Eliza Thomas. Studies at Harvard (A.B. 1903, A.M. 1904, Ph.D. 1906),…
CLARK, Edward Winter. Northeast, Dutchess County, NY 25.2.1830 — (St. Augustine, Florida 13.5.1913 or rather) Duchess County, NY 24.6.1913. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Tibeto-Burman (Naga) Scholar. Son of Perry Clark and Caroline Winchell. Educated at Worcester Academy. Graduated M.A. from Brown University 1857, attended Newton Theological Institution and Rochester Theological…
CHANNING, Eva. Boston 17.5.1854 — Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina 23.3.1930. U.S. Suffragist, Student of Indology. Born in a wealthy Boston family, daughter of William Francis Channing (1820–1901), a physician, scientist and abolitionist, and Susan Elizabeth Burdick, a suffragist. Parents divorced 1859. Studied at Boston University, graduated 1877. Then studied…
CHANDLER, John Scudder. Madurai, Tamil Nadu 12.4.1849 — Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu 19.6.1934. U.S. Missionary and Tamil scholar. Son of John Eddy Chandler (1817–1894), a missionary, and Charlotte Maria Hopkins (1821–1891). After Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven studies at Yale (B.A. 1870) and Yale Divinity School (B.D.). Priest ordination in…
CAMERON, George Glenn. Washington, PA 30.7.1905 — Ann Arbor 14.9.1979. U.S. Archaeologist and Historian of ancient Iran. Professor in Ann Arbor. Son of William Byers Cameron and Elizabeth Smith. Educated in 1923-25 at Washington and Jefferson College, 1925-27 at Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio (A.B. 1927), then studies at University…
BURRITT, Elihu. New Britain, Conn. 8.12.1810 — ibid. 6.3.1879. “The Learned Blacksmith”. U.S. Literate interested in Sanskrit. Son of an eccentric shoemaker-farmer. He was trained as smith in his home district and worked 1828-37 as a smith in Worcester, Mass. Began privately to study languages already as an apprentice. In…
BURLINGAME, Eugene Watson. Albany, N.Y. 5.8.1876 — Albany 3.8.1932. U.S. Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Son of Eugene Burlingame (1847–1898) and Emma Patten Watson (1850–1936). Educated at Yale (B.A. 1898) and University of Pennsylvania (M.A. 1902, Ph.D. 1910). Then studies of Sanskrit at Harvard 1909-10 (under Lanman) and at Johns Hopkins 1914-16 (Bloomfield).…
BURGHART, Richard. U.S.A. 1944 — Heidelberg 1.1.1994, when 49. U.S. Anthropologist in Germany. B.A. 1966 Williams College, Mass., M.A., in political science, also studied nine months in Ibadan, Nigeria. From 1966 studies at S.O.A.S., M.Phil. 1969 in Social Anthropology. Now became interested in South Asia and did fieldwork in Janakpur,…
BURGESS, Ebenezer. Grafton, Vermont 26.6.1805 — Newton Centre, Mass. 1.1.1870. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India, a Scholar of Marathi, Sanskrit and Indian Astronomy. Son of the elder Ebenezer Burgess (1768–1834) and Mercy Hall (1771–1815). Educated at Amherst College and Andover Theological Seminary, ordained priest in 1839. Missionary in Western India…
BURCH, George Bosworth. Hartford, Conn. 12.7.1902 — 4.6.1973. U.S. Philosopher interested in Indian Thought. Son of George Washington Burch and Mary Bosworth, educated at Harvard (A.B. 1923, A.M. 1927, Ph.D. 1939). Graduate studies also at the universities of Geneva (1933-34) and Paris (1935-36). In 1942-46 Professor of philosophy and psychology…