RIENCOURT, Amaury de, Marquis. Orléans 18.6.1918 — Bellevue, Switzerland 13.1.2005. French Historian, Indian, South-East Asian and Tibetan Scholar. Born in an old family of nobility, son of Marquis Olivier de Riencourt and Anne Le Bas du Plessis. Graduated from Sorbonne, M.A. Algiers. In 1939-40 served in French navy. In 1947…
PHILIPS, Cyril Henry. Worchester 27.12.1912 — Swanage, Dorset 29.12.2005. Sir. British Historian. In the 1920s some years in Bihar, where his father worked as engine driver. Educated at Rock Ferry High School. From 1931 studies at Liverpool, graduated 1934 in history. Then studies at S.O.A.S., Ph.D. 1940. In WW II served…
MÄNCHEN-HELFEN, Otto Johann/John. Vienna 26.6.1894 — Berkeley 29.1.1969. Austrian Sinologist and Central Asian Scholar in the U.S.A. Professor in Berkeley. Son of Johann Helfen (1859–1938), a book printer, and Agnes Katharina Mänchen (1867–1944). After school in Vienna began studies at Vienna, but soon had to serve in WW I, then…
LEONARD, John Greenfield. Los Angeles 18.3.1936 — Arizona 9.11.1985. U.S. Historian. Son of Charles Mather Leonard (1908–1978) and Gladys Greenfield Harris. Studies at Stanford (B.A. 1959) and University of Wisconsin in Madison (M.A. 1962). Ph.D. 1970. At University of Wisconsin (1967), from 1968-73 at University of California in San Diego…
LABOURT, Jérôme. Paris 2.3.1874 — Paris 27.11.1957. French Historian of early Christianity. From 1890 studies at Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice, ordained priest 1897. Dr.théol. 1904. Then Director of Collège Stanislas in Paris, curator of Saint-Honoré d’Eylau, then “vicaire général du diocèse de Paris et chanoine de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris”.…
HOECK, Karl Friedrich Christian. Oelber am Weißen Wege, Wolfenbüttel 13.5.1794 — Göttingen 13.1.1877. German Classical Philologist and Historian. After gymnasium in Wolfenbüttel studied 2012-16 Classics at Göttingen (under Heeren et al.). From 1814 employed in Göttingen University. Ph.D. 1818., soon (still 1818) PD, ao. Professor 1823, ord. 1831. From 1845…
HALLOCK, Richard Treadwell. Passaic, NJ 5.4.1906 — Chicago 20.11.1980. U.S. Assyriologist and Specialist of Elamite. Studied at University of Toronto (B.A. 1929), then Assyriology at Chicago (M.A. 1931, Ph.D. 1934). From 193257 Research Assistant in Chicago Assyrian Dictionary project. War service in military intelligence in Washington, DC, remained there until…
GRIGNASCHI, Mario. Trieste 20.1.1917 — Muggia, prov. Trieste 26.3.2000. Italian Orientalist. Professor in Venice. Son of Emilio Grignaschi and Gemma Angeli. Publications: “Quelques specimens de la littérature sassanide conservés dans les bibliothèques d’Istambul. Introduction et traduction des extraits du Kārnāmaǧ d’Ānūširwān„ JA 254, 1966, 1-142. – “La Chute de l’empire Hephtalite…
DEBEVOISE, Neilson Carel. Jersey City, NJ 8.11.1903 — Harrisburg, PA 10.12.1992. U.S. Archaeologist and Historian of Mesopotamia and Iran. Studied at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. 1929 (under Olmstead). From 1930 taught at University of Chicago, participated in Seleucia excavations. During WW II in Military Intelligence Service, posted in Egypt,…
CARTER, George Edward Lovelace. Exmouth, Devon 1886 — 24.2.1974. British Civil Servant in India. Son of a local builder, John Carter (1862–1938) and Ellen Ann Balmano (d. 1896), studied Geography and Modern History at Oxford. B.A. Joined I.C.S. in 1910. He was Assistant Collector in Bombay and at Tatta, then Municipal…