VOIGT, Wolfgang. Friedenau/Berlin 17.7.1911 — Berlin 30.8.1982. German Indologist. Editor of the V.O.H.D. Studied at Berlin Indology (Lüders, Breloer), Iranian (Schaeder) and Theology, then at Marburg Sanskrit and Tibetan (Nobel), Religion (Heiler) and Theology. Ph.D. 1936 Marburg. First Theological examination 1937. From 1937 worked in Berlin University Library, from 1939…
VOGEL, Jean-Philippe. ’s-Gravenhage 9.1.1871 — Oegstgeest near Leiden 10.4.1958. Dutch Indologist, Specialist of Indian Art and Archaeology. Professor in Leiden. Son of Johan Gregorius V. (a judge, 1843–1920) and Jeanne Adrienne du Quesne van Breuchem (1844–1890). Educated in Alkmaar and Haarlem, then studied Sanskrit and Dutch at Amsterdam, also attented…
VINSON, Elie Honoré Julien. Paris? (Wikip. claims Pondichéry and data.bnf.fr Bagnères-de-Luchon, Haute-Garonne) 21.1.1843 — Libourne (Gironde) 21.11.1926. French Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Professor in Paris. Probably born in France, but grew up in Karikal and Pondichéry, where his father was a civil servant, and thus learned Tamil almost to…
VIENNOT, Odette. 23.1.1910 — 18.11.1992. French Indologist and Art Historian. Born in an artist family, studied ethnology, soon Indology at É.P.H.É. and Indian Art at Ecole du Louvre, under Ph. Stern. In 1951 chargée de mission in Musée Guimet, soon joined C.N.R.S. As an art historian she specialized in the…
VENIS, Arthur (born Arthur Venis Lazarus). 4.10.1857 — 5.6.1918. British (Scottish) Educator and Indologist in India. Professor in Varanasi and Allahabad. Son of Edward John Lazarus, a converted Jew with Indian background, a physician also interested in Sanskrit. After studies at Edinburgh and Oxford (Balliol College, B.A. 1878, M.A. 1885)…
VASCONCELOS (DE) ABREU, Guilherme Augusto (de). Coimbra 20.5.1842 — Lisbon 1.2.1907. Portuguese Indologist. Professor in Lisbon. Son of Victor Madail de Abreu and Guilhermina de Vasconcellos Abreu. School in Coimbra and 1854-56 in Porto, then some time in Brazil. Then studied then mathematics at Coimbra University and artillery at military school,…
VALLAURI, Mario. Viareggio (Lucca) 31.7.1887 — Dronero (Cuneo) 19.9.1964. Italian Indologist. Professor in Turin. Born in an old Piemontese family, studied Indology at Naples under Kerbaker(degree 1911). Further studies in 1912 at Florence under Pavolini and 1913-14 at Würzburg under Jolly, concentrating on Dharma- and Arthaśāstra and Āyurveda. In 1915-19…
UHLE, Heinrich. 1842 — 1913. German Indologist. Schoolteacher in Dresden. Studies at Leipzig, i.al. Indology under Brockhaus. Ph.D. Taught classical languages at Gymnasium zum heiligen Kreuz in Dresden (1877/1905). Retired. Prompted by Brockhaus, started the study of the Vetālapañcaviṁśatika. ancestry.com has one Heinrich August Uhle 1.11.1840 — 6.4.1919. Son of…
ZOGRAF, Georgij Aleksandrovič. Leningrad 15.4.1928 — 26.4.1993. Russian Indologist (Hindi-Urdu). Son of Aleksandr Nikolaevič Z. (1889–1942), an ancient historian, and Ol’ga Grigor’evna Kotova. As an adolescent he managed through the siege of Leningrad (that killed his father). He graduated 1951 at Leningrad, as student of Beskrovnyj. Kand. filol. nauk 1954,…
ZIMMER, Heinrich Robert. Greifswald 6.12.1890 — New Rochelle, N.Y. 20.3.1943. German Indologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Heidelberg and New York. Son of —> Heinrich Z. the elder. Matriculated in Berlin in 1909, then studied Hebrew, Germanistics, art history and soon Indology (Lüders) at Berlin. Ph.D. 1914 Berlin. He was taken…