REUTHER, Oskar August. Herner, Sauerland 20.10.1880 — Heidelberg 5.8.1954. German Historian of Architecture. Son of merchant O. A. Reuther. Studied 1899-1904 architecture at Technische Hochschule Dresden, soon interested in archaeology. Worked as architect in Berlin, in 1905-12 also participated in Koldewey’s excavations in Babylon. Ph.D. 1909 Dresden. Then also in other…
REDARD, Georges. Neuchâtel 4.4.1922 — Kirchlindach 24.1.2005. Swiss IE and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Neuchâtel and Bern. Son of post official Arnold Ernest Redard and Mathilde Kröpfli. Studies at Neuchâtel: 1940 baccalauréat ès lettres (with Hebrew), 1943 licensié ès langues classiques (with Russian, Lithuanian, Persian and Sanskrit); then at Bern…
RAVEAU, Régine Gisèle Francette. Poitiers (Vienne) 17.5.1922 — Saint-Sébastien-du-Morsent (Eure) 9.12.1997. French Teacher interested in Sanskrit. Daughter of a winegrower. Studied German at Poitiers and Sanskrit in Paris. Ph.D. Librarian of Société asiatique, 1951 in Calcutta. Then schoolteacher of German. From 1936 active communist. Publications: “L’adaptation des lois de Manu chez les…
RASTORGUEVA, Vera Sergeevna. Manor of Storoževskij, Tambovskij Gub. (later Usmanskij rajon in Lipeckaja oblast) 23.5.(5.6.)1912 — 7.11.2005. Russian Iranian Scholar. Daughter of a farmer. Graduated 1938 in Leningrad. Kand. filologičeskih nauk 1944, Docent 1947, Dr. 1964, Professor 1969. In 1942-44 taught Iranian philology at University of Tadzhikistan, in 1945-60 at…
QUECKE, Kurt. 19?? — 1975. German Physician and Indologist. Ph.D. 1947 Marburg, under Nobel. Also Dr.med. In 1959 Kreismedizinalrat in Marburg. In 1972 apparently in Giessen. Perhaps he is K. Quecke of Essen, born 15.7.1924, student at Tübingen from 1943. Publications: Diss. Die Lehre von den drei Körpern Buddhas (Trikāya).…
PULGRAM, Ernst. Vienna 18.9.1915 — Ireland 17.8.2005. U.S. (Austrian-born) Linguist, Specialist of Italic and Romance Languages. Son of tailor Sigmund Pulgram. Educated in Vienna,1934 began studies at Vienna under Kretschmer et al., Ph.D. 1938 in Romance philology. After Anschluss he had to escape from the Nazis as a Jew in…
PROKOSCH, Eduard. Eger, Bohemia (Cheb, Czechia) 15.3.1876 — New Haven, Conn. 11.8.1938. U.S. (born Austrian) Linguist, Specialist of IE and Germanic. Son of Wenzel Prokosch, a schoolmaster, and Marie Fischer. Studied jurisprudence at Prague and Vienna (advocate examination 1897). Emigrated to the U.S.A. 1898 (citizen 1904). Worked briefly as reporter…
PONETTE, Pierre August Maria Jozef. Ronse, East Flanders 6.3.1910 — Ranchi 3.2.2000. Father. S.J. Belgian Catholic Missionary in India. Son of René Ponette (1874–1918), textile manufacturer and advocate, and Margareta Van Coppenolle (1882–1969). Joined S.J. in 1927 and 1931 its Indian mission. In 1932-35 studies of language and theology in Shembaganur,…
PINGREE, David Edwin. New Haven, CT 2.1.1933 — Providence, RI 11.11.2005. U.S. Indologist and Historian of Science. Son of Daniel Pingree (1902–1986) and Elizabeth Maconi. Grew up in Providence and attended school there. Graduated 1950 from Phillips Academy in Andover. Studied Sanskrit, classics and mathematics, then also Arabic, at Harvard. Mainly…
PIKE, Albert. Boston 29.12.1809 — Washington, D.C. 2.4.1891. U.S. Author, Poet, Orator, Editor, Lawyer. and Confederate General. Son of Benjamin Pike and Sarah Andrews. Grew up in Byfield and Newburyport, Mass. Self-educated, worked as teacher in Gloucester, North Bedford, Fairhaven and Newburyport. In 1831 left for west, stayed first in…