GUNDERT, Hermann Karl. Stuttgart 4.2.1814 — Calw 25.4.1893. German Missionary and Indologist (Dravidian Scholar). Worked for Basel Mission in Kerala. Son of Franz Ludwig G. (1783–1854), a merchant and founder of the Württemberg Bibelanstalt, and Christina Ensslin (1792–1833). Educated at Stuttgart Gymnasium and from the age of 14 at Maulbronn…
GULJAMOVA, Rano Hodžiakbarovna. Tashkent 20.1.1940 — 11.11.1985. Uzbekistanian Indologist (Hindi). Daughter of an official. Graduated 1962 Tashkent. Kand. filol. nauk 1976. In 1962-85 taught at Oriental Faculty, Tashkent University. Publications: Kand.diss. Višnu Prabhakar – prozaik i dramaturg. Manuscript of 168 p. M. 1976. – “Nekotorye idejno-hudož. osobennosti romana Višnu Prabhakara ‘Nišikant’”,…
GUIEYSSE, Georges. Paris 1.1.1869 — 17.5.1889. French Indologist. Son of Eugène G. (d. 1889), a physician, sister’s son to the engineer-Egyptologist Paul G. (1841–1914). Educated at Lycée Henri IV, then studies of Indology and IE under S. Lévi, Bréal, Bergaigne, de Saussure, and Darmesteter. One of the first students of…
GUÉRINOT, Armand Albert. Messon (Aube) 25.11.1872 — 1940?. French Indologist. Studied under Regnaud at Lyon, Ph.D. there 1900. Apparently also dr.med. Further studies at Bonn under Jacobi. In 1909 he was “correcteur pour la typographie orientale” in Imprimérie nationale, in 1924 no longer a member of Société asiatique. Mainly a…
GRÜNWEDEL, Albert. Munich 31.7.1856 — Lenggries bei Bad Tölz, Bavaria 28.10. (or 7.11.?) 1935. German Indologist, Tibetologist, Archaeologist and Art Historian. Museum Director in Berlin. Son of Karl Gr., a painter and lithograph, and Fanny La Roche, educated at Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich. In 1876-79 studied at Munich classical philology and…
GROWSE, Frederic Salmon. Bildeston, Suffolk 1836 — Haslemere, Surrey 19.5.1893. British Civil Servant and Indologist (Hindi Scholar) in India. Son of Robert and Mary Gr., educated at Oriel College, studies at Queen’s College, Oxford (M.A.). Joined the I.C.S. in 1860, served in the N.W.P., in Mainpuri, Mathura and Bulandshahr (1876-84)…
GROHMA, Otto. Vienna 4.3.1943 — Paris 4.9.1974. Austrian Indologist. After matriculation in 1962 in Vienna studied there Indology and classical archaeology. Ph.D. 1971 Vienna. From 1972 Assistant at Indological Institute in Vienna. Died suddenly during a visit to Paris, a habilitation dissertation on Vallabha’s Nyāyalīlāvatī remained unfinished. Publications: Diss. Die…
GRIMBLOT, Jean Paul Auguste. Marseille 28.6.1817 — Florence 23.5.1870. French Diplomat and Indologist. Studies of Indology in Paris under Burnouf. Traveled in Germany, U.K. and Italy. From 18?? French Consul in Ceylon and Burma. In Ceylon he learned Pāli and studied Buddhism, and achieved a fine collection of manuscripts for…
GRIMBLOT, Anne (née Jean Baptiste [sic!] Anne Sophie Toulouzan). 18?? — 1???. French Indologist, from 1839 wife of —> Paul Gr. Participated in her husband’s studies and edited his posthumous works. Publications: “Lettre sur ses [de son mari] travaux philologiques”, JA 6:20, 1872, 220-225 (see —> P. Grimblot). – Edited…
GRILL, Julius Friedrich Ludwig (1903 von Grill). Gaildorf am Kocher, Württemberg 10.4.1840 — Tübingen 10.9.1930. German Indologist and Lutheran Theologian. Professor of Theology in Tübingen. After Seminary in Urach studies of theology at Heidelberg and Tübingen, also Indology under Roth. From 1862 Vicar in Wildbad, then in Paffenhofer, 1867 Repetent in…