WOODTHORPE, Robert Gosset. Purfleet, Essex 22.9.1844 (or 26.5.) — 28.10.1920 (niceartgallery, Wikidata has 26.5.1898}. British Colonial Officer in India, Explorer and Amateur Artist. Major-General. Son of navy officer John Bolton Woodthorpe and Emily Howard. Educated at Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. In 1865 joined Royal Engineers, soon to India. In…
WERTZ, Dorothy Corbett (née D. Corbett). Buffalo, NY 18.5.1937 — Cancun, Benito Juarez, Mexico 29.4.2003. U.S. Scholar of Religion. Daughter of William Joseph Corbett (1893–1942) and Helen Leggett Kirk (1899–1982). B.A. Radcliffe College, then studied Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. M.A. Radcliffe. Ph.D. Harvard, in Religion. She…
VERWEY, Anthony Hendrik Nicolaas. ’s-Gravenhage 14.4.1918 — Leiden 7.1.2001. Dutch Anthropologist specialized in India and Tibet. Studied Law and Indology at Amsterdam and Leiden. In 1947-81 working in Ethnological Museum, Leiden. His main interests were: material evidence of popular Hinduism and Tibetan religion. Married Thora de Wijs. Publications: Tentoonstelling: Pabuji, een…
TOOMEY, Paul Michael. Newton, MA 23.7.1951 — Orlando, Florida 21.7.1992. U.S. Anthropologist. Son of William W. Toomey, an attorney and journalist, and Constance Elizabeth Loughran (d. 2009). Graduated 1973 from Bowdoin College. In 1976 at American Institute in New Delhi. Ph.D. 1984 University of Virginia, in Anthropology. Then taught two…
STONOR, Charles Robert. 20.5.1912 (or 20.4.?) — Brent, Middlesex 1982. British Anthropologist and Naturalist in India. Roman Catholic. Son of Francis Cyril Stonor (1880–1955) and Juliana Tindal Bosanquet. Surveyor in the Naga Hills in British period, then agricultural officer in Assam, remained some time in India after 1947. Back in…
SCHLAGINHAUFEN, Otto. St.Gallen 8.11.1879 — Kilchberg, Canton Zürich 14.11.1973. Swiss Anthropologist and Eugenicist. Son of merchant Daniel Otto Schlaginhaufen and Emma Baumann, gymnasium in Bern. In 1899-1904 studied anthropology at Zürich. Ph.D. 1905. In 1901-05 Assistant at Zürich, 1905-06 at Rudolf-Virchow-Sammlung in Berlin. In 1906-11 worked as anthropologist in Dresden…
SARASIN, Paul Benedict. Basel 11.12.1856 — Basel 7.4.1929. Swiss Naturalist and Ethnologist. Son of politician Karl Sarasin (1815–1886) and Elisabeth Sauvain (1829–1918), a wealthy family, second cousin of —> Fritz Sarasin (1859–1942), with whom he then had a lifelong friendship. School and medical studies in Basel. Together with his cousin he…
SARASIN, Fritz (Karl Friedrich). Basel 3.12.1859 — Lugano 23.3.1942.Swiss Naturalist. Son of cotton factory owner and politician Felix Sarasin (1797–1862) and Rosalia Brunner (1826–1908), second cousin of —> Paul Sarasin (1856–1929), with whom he then had a lifelong friendship. Studied natural sciences at Geneva and Basel, where he met his cousin.…
ROSNER, Victor. Rangoon, Burma (?) 1911 — 1985. S.J. Father. Catholic Missionary in India. Son of Charles Alexander Rosner and Muriel Kate Ballantine. Worked in Jashpur, M.Pr., from 1960 at St. Xavier’s School in Doranda, Ranchi. In 1964 had been 20 years in India. Ph.D., diss. on Munda witchcraft. Publications: “Venom…
PIGNÈDE, Bernard. Paris 16.3.1932 — 21.11.1961, when 29. French Anthropologist of Nepal. Studies in Paris (É.P.H.É.), under L. Dumont, in 1958 seven months fieldwork among Gurungs in Nepal. Died in an accident before his only book appeared. In a review Fürer-Haimendorf praises its scholarly approach, although he conducted his fieldwork…