ESNOUL, Anne-Marie Helène. Saint-Malo, Brittany 19.4.1908 — Saint-Malo 23.1.1996. French Indologist. Esnoul-Le Sénéchal is a noble family of Saint-Malo, daughter of Louis Esnoul-Le Sénéchal and Andrée Lebret. After school in Saint-Malo and licence de philosophie in Paris, studied from 1934 Sanskrit under Masson-Oursel and Stchoupak. Diplome d’É.P.H.É. 1947, Ph.D. 196?.…
ESCHMANN, Anncharlott. Munich 24.9.1941 — Delhi 6.4.1977. German Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Daughter of Professor Ernst Wilhelm Eschmann (1904–1987), a Sociologist, and his wife Charlott, a psychotherapist. Grew up in Ticino, Switzerland. From 1961 studies of Protestant theology, comparative religion and Indology at Munich, Marburg and Heidelberg. Ph.D. 1969.…
ENTWISTLE, Alan William. Weymouth, Dorsett 10.3.1949 — Seattle 28.3.1996. British Indologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Seattle. Son of W. D. Entwistle and Neta D. Whiles. Studies at University of Southampton (B.A. 1971 in French) and S.O.A.S. (M.A. 1975 in Area Studies). In 1976-78 field-work in Vrindaban, India. Ph.D. 1982…
ELWELL, Levi Henry. Northampton, Mass. 22.3.1854 — Amherst, Mass. 27.12.1916. U.S. Indologist and Classical scholar. Son of the elder Levi Henry Elwell (1820–1862/66) and Harriet Adeline Ross (1823–1898). Educated at Amherst College (B.A. 1875; M.A. 1878), and 1876-77 at Yale. In 1875-76 schoolteacher in New York state, then at Amherst…
ELLIOT, Walter. Edinburgh 16.1.1803 — Wolfelee, Roxburghshire 1.3.1887. Sir. British (Scottish) Civil Servant, Indologist, Epigraphist and Naturalist in India. Son of James Elliot and Caroline Hunter (d. 1824), educated privately and in Cumberland and Doncaster. Appointed into a writership in E.I.C. he came to Haileybury in 1818 and to India…
EHNI, Jacques David (Jakob D. E.). Bad Cannstadt near Stuttgart 25.11.1827 — Nyon 19.7.1903. German Indologist, Scholar of Religion and Valdesian Theologian in Switzerland. In 1841-45 (?) studied at Lutheran seminary in Blabeuren, then theology and philology at Tübingen University. Dr.Theol. 1849. For a short while worked as a tutor…
EGGERMONT, Pierre Herman Leonard. Manado, Celebes 4.2.1914 — Linden, Belgium 11.4.1995. Dutch Indologist and Classical Scholar. Son of a government agent in Indonesia, Pierre August Leonard Eggermont (1886–1964), and Cornelia Johanna Margaretha van Houten. After school in Surabaya came to the Netherlands in 1931 and began studies of Classics, Sanskrit…
EGGELING, Hans Julius. Hecklingen bei Staßfurt (Harz) 12.7.1842 — Witten (Westfalen) 13.3.1918. German Indologist. Professor in Edinburgh. Son of landowner Sebastian Eggeling (1808–1842) and Elisabeth Müller. After Gymnasium in Bernburg, studies of classical philology and Sanskrit at Breslau and Berlin. In Breslau he became acquainted with Rhys Davids (they were…
EELSINGH, Herman Frederik. Tienhoven (Zuid-Holland) 17.11.1882 — Utrecht 1909 or Groningen 29.9.1908. Dutch Indologist. Son of Jan Harmannus Haverbult Eelsingh and Elisabeth Edzes. Student of Caland at Utrecht, Ph.D. there 1908. Died young. Publications: Diss. Ṣaḍviṁśabrāhmaṇaṁ vijñāpanabhāṣyasahitam. Het Ṣaḍviṁśabrāhmaṇa van de Sāmaveda uitgegeven met een inleiding, de op naam van…
EDWARDS, James Fairbrother. Bolton, Lancastershire 25.3.1875 — Auburndale, Polk County, Florida 5.12.1951. Rev. British Missionary and Indologist, especially a Marathi Scholar. Son of Isaac Edwards and Sarah Brown. Educated at Wesleyan Methodist Theological College in Handsworth, Birmingham, then 8 years in charge of churches in England. Arrived in India in…