BRIGHT, William Oliver (Bill). Oxnard, Calif. 13.8.1928 — Louisville, Color. 15.10.2006. U.S. Linguist and Indologist. Professor in Los Angeles. Son of a butcher. Graduated 1945 from Oxnard High School, where he showed an early interest in languages. Studies of medicine, soon of Spanish and linguistics at University of California in…
BOULTON, John Victor. 1934 — 2006. British Indologist (NIA). Ph.D. 1967 S.O.A.S. From 1962 Lecturer in Bengali and Oriya at S.O.A.S., retired 1988. Publications: Diss. on Oriya. Manuscript S.O.A.S. 1967. – Phakirmohana Senapati: His life and prose-fiction. 537 p. Bhubaneshwar 1993 (rev. diss. on Oḍiyā author). – With G. Mishra:…
VAUDEVILLE, Charlotte Louise Marie. La Tronche (Isère) 1918 — Poissy (Yvelines) 28.4.2006. Mademoiselle. French Indologist, a Specialist of Bhakti Religion and Poetry. Professor in Paris. Studied classics and Indology in Paris (Bloch and Renou): licence-ès-lettres 1939 Sorbonne (in classics), certificat d’études indiennes (Sanskrit) 1942 and diplome des langues orientales (Hindi) 1943.…
TOPOROV, Vladimir Nikolaevič. Moscow 5.7.1928 — Moscow 5.12.2005. Russian Indologist and IE Linguist. Son of an official. Graduated 1951 from Moscow University ( student of M. N. Peterson). Kand. filol. nauk 1955. From 1954 naučnyj sotrudnik at Instituta slavjanovedenija AN SSSR in Moscow, 1960 staršij naučnyj sotrudnik. Hon. Dr. filol.…
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…