ČAVČAVADZE, Tinatin Aleksandrovna. Tbilisi 29.4.1928 — 1997. Georgian Indo-Iranian scholar. Daughter of an official, graduated 1949 from Oriental Faculty of Tbilisi University. Kand. filol. nauk 1954, dr. filol. nauk 1987. In 1956-58 taught at Tbilisi University, 1957-60 naučnyj sotrudnik at Linguistic Inst. (Inst. Jazykoznanija) and from 1960 at Oriental Institute…
BURTON-PAGE, John Garrard. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex 19.9.1921 — Church Knowle, Dorset 13.6.2005. British Indologist (Sanskrit and Hindi Scholar and Historian). Music studies (horn) at Royal College of Music were interrupted after one term through war service in India and Burma, learned now Hindi and Nepali and after war studied from 1946 Sanskrit…
BRUNNER-LACHAUX, Helène (née H. Lachaux). L’Hérault 20.5.1920 — Lausanne 27.3.2005. French Indologist. Studied first mathematics and physics, CAPES 1942, and taught them at school in 1942-62, first in France, then 1951-53 Berchtesgaden, 1953-55 Addis Abeba and 1955-62 at Pondichéry French lycée. Now became interested in Śaivism and joined Filliozat’s Śaivasiddhānta team. Also…
BERGER, Hermann. Bad Kötzting, Bayerischer Wald 17.10.1926 — Heidelberg 31.1.2005. German Indologist. Professor in Heidelberg. After school military service ending as war prisoner. Released studies of Indology, IE linguistics ans Semitic at Munich 1948-53, 1953 Ph.D. there. His main teacher was H. Hoffmann, also K. Hoffmann, F. Sommer and A.…
BECHERT, Heinz. Munich 26.6.1932 — Göttingen 14.6.2005. German Indologist, a Famous Specialist of Buddhist Studies. Professor in Göttingen. Son of Rudolf Becher (1900–1961), a lawyer, and Herta Bade. After gymnasium in Rosenheim from 1950 studies at Munich, beginning with classical philology and history, soon linguistics under Sommer and finally Indology.…
WAYMAN, Alex. Chicago 11.1.1921 — New York 22.9.2004. U.S. Indologist and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in New York. During WW II served in the army, over three years in the Philippines, Okinawa, and Australia (also studies at University of Queensland). Studied Mathematics at U.C.L.A.: B.A. 1948, M.A. 1949. Then from 1952…
LESLIE, Isobel Julia. Dar es Salaam 23.1.1948 — Dacorum, Hertfordshire 24.9.2004. British Indologist. Daughter of John Arthur Kingsley Leslie (1918–2011) and Elizabeth Helen Tancock (2021–2008). Studied philosophy, French and German at University of Sussex, then six years in South Asia. M.Phil. 1980 and D.Phil. 1983 Oxford. In the 1980s at…
LÁSZLÓ, Franz von. 23.10.1906 — ????. German (with Hungarian background?) Indologist. Interested in Dharmaśāstra. In 1941 stud. philol. in Berlin, but moved soon to Bonn. Ph.D. 1952 Bonn (under Kirfel). In 1955 & 1987 living in Bonn. Publications: Diss. Manu bei Bhaviṣya Purāṇa.Bonn 1952, publ. as Die Parallelversion der Manusmṛti…
KUIPER, Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus. the Hague 7.7.1907 — Zeist, prov. Utrecht 14.11.2003. Dutch Indologist, Munda and Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor in Leiden. Son of the elder F. B. J. Kuiper (1878–1973), a schoolteacher, and Anna Maria van Dijk. After school in the Hague studied classical and IE philology, at Leiden, and…
KRÁSA, Miloslav. Libočany 6.1.1920 — 16.4.2004. Czech Indologist. Studied Hindi under Pořízka at Prague 1943-47 and in 1947-48 at Allahabad, graduated 1953. In 1954-97 taught at Prague. Publications: The Temples of Angkor. Monuments to a Vanished Empire. 272 p. London 1963. – Unending Discoveries of Eastern Cultures. 208 p. Prague 1966.…