SAZANOVA, Natal’ja Mihajlovna. Moscow 19.1.1932 — 17.4.2006. Russian Indologist (Hindi Literature). Daughter of official. Graduated 1954 from Moscow in history. Kand. filol. nauk 1962, Dr. filol. nauk 1984. From 1958 taught at Institute of Oriental Languages, Moscow University. Professor’s title 1989. Publications: At least 50 items, e.g. kand.diss. Problematika dramaturgii…
RÜPING, Klaus. Burg near Magdeburg 8.8.1940 — 7.9.2005. German Indologist. Professor in Münster. Son of economist Erich Rüping and his wife, elementary school teacher Hildegard Rüping, grew up in Bochum, gymnasium there until 1959. Then studies of Classics at Münster, from 1963 also Indology (under Hacker), 1963-64 one year at Bonn.…
ROGER RIVIÈRE, Juan. 1903 — ????. Spanish Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Active as early as 1947. Professor of Indology (or Oriental Art) at Complutense in Madrid in the 1960s. Publications: El pensamiento filosófico de Asia. 533 p. Madrid 1960. – La India. 262 p. Barcelona 1962. – “The problem of…
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…
ŁUGOWSKI, Andrzej. Warsaw 26.1.1938 — 2006. Polish Indologist. Studied Indology and Germanistics at Warsaw and Poznań. M.A. 1961, Ph.D. 1968 Warsaw (Słuszkiewicz). Then taught at Warsaw. Publications: “Staroindyjskie wersje podania o potopie”, Euhemer 71-72, 1969, 49-54; “Legenda o Śunahśepie”, Euhemer 75, 1970, 17-25; “Fragmenty z Upaniszad”, Studia Filozoficzne 67, 1970, 35-42…
JOHNSON, Willard Lyon. Des Moines, Iowa 30.5.1939 — Pauma Valley, Calif. 29.12.2006. U.S. Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Son of the elder W. L. Johnson and Margerie Elta Hackenberg. Studies at Oberlin College (B.A. 1961) and University of Wisconsin in Madison (M.A. 1966), Ph.D. 1972 there in Indian Languages and…
HÄRTEL, Herbert. Hoyerswerda 7.5.1921 — Berlin 23.11.2005. German Indologist, Buddhist Scholar and Art Historian. Studies at Halle and Göttingen (under Waldschmidt). Ph.D. Göttingen 1953. In 1953-62 Curator in Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin. From 1963 Direktor of Museum für indische Kunst in Berlin (which was much his own creation), also…
GAEFFKE, Hans Peter Theodor. Breslau 6.12.1927 — Philadelphia 30.3.2005. German Indologist (Hindī scholar) in the U.S.A. Professor in Philadelphia. Son of engineer Albert Gaeffke. School in 1938-44 in Breslau, then military service 1944-45 and time as war prisoner. In 1947-48 studied history and Germanistics at Regensburg Hochschule, from 1948 Linguistics at…
ENSINK, Jacob (Jaap). Hilversum 5.6.1921 — ?.9.2005. Dutch Indologist and Old Javanese Scholar. Professor in Groningen. Son of Klaas Ensink (1891–1980) and Margarethe Josine van Gelder. Studied Classics, Indology and Indonesian philology (under Gonda and Bosch) at Utrecht, 1952 Ph.D. there. In 1954-62 Lecturer (lektor) of Indology at Groningen, from 1962…
ČERNIKOVA, Sofija Aleksandrovna. v g. Satke Čeljabinskoj obl. 16.11.1936 — 1995. Russian Indologist (Urdu). Daughter of an official, graduated 1958 from Vost. Fak. of Taškent University. In 1963-64 further studies at Delhi University. Kand. filol. n. 1965 (Moscow). Teaching at Vost. Fak. of Taškent University from 1965. Docent 1970. Publications:…