JOHNSON, John James. 18?? — ?.12.1917. Rev. British Missionary in India. Educated at Islington College. Worked in Benares, for Church Missionary Society On leave graduated M.A. 1903 from Durham University, in German.. He was known of his excellent command of Sanskrit and called “Pandit Johnson”. Publications: Edited and translated Rāmānuja’s…
JOHANNS, Pierre. Heinerscheid, Clervaux 1.4.1882 — Arlon, Belgium 8.2.1955. S.J. Father. Luxemburgian Catholic Missionary in India. Tenth child of a large family, Jesuit novice 1903. Ordained priest 1914 in Louvain. Studied theology and philosophy at Louvain (Leuven) and after war two years Indology at Oxford. Th.D. Oxford. In November 1921…
JENSEN, Herman. 11.8.1842 — 29.4.1909. Rev. Danish Missionary in South India. Joined the Danish Missionary Society in 1874 and served in Siloam, Tirukoilur (1874-77), and Ranipet (1877-78), then in Madras. After a furlough returned to India in 1887 and served from 1898-1902 in Tiruvannamalai, finally in Bangalore until death. Married…
JANVIER, Ernest Paxton. Fatehgarh, India 1.2.1890 — Haverford, PA 3.5.1962. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Indologist. Son of Rev. Dr. Caesar Augustus Rodney Janvier (1861–1928) and Susan Duryee Rankin, grandson of —> Levi Janvier (1816–1864). Born in India, came to the U.S.A. in 1905. Studies at Princeton (A.B. 1916), ordained priest…
JÄSCHKE, Heinrich August. Herrnhut (Sachsen) 17.5.1817 — Herrnhut 24.9.1883. German Missionary and Tibetan scholar. Son of a master baker in an originally Moravian family, Friedrich August Jäschke (1781–1845) and Sophie Zeidler. As a talented boy he won a scholarship to Niesky Pädagogium (Herrnhutian gymnasium) in Silesia. Then studies at seminary…
ISENBERG, Karl Wilhelm (Charles William). Barmen, Bergisches Land 5.9.1806 — Kornthal near Stuttgart 10.10.1864. German Missionary and Polyglot. Of humble origin, son of a tinsmith, W. Isenberg (d. 1827), and Luise Stahl, a deeply religious home. He went to Basel Mission School in 1824, then two years studies in Berlin and…
IOANNES BAPTISTA MARIA A SANCTA THERESIA (lay Giovanni Battista Moretovel Multedi). Alassio (Savona) 6.10.1673 — Verapoly 6.4.1750. Italian Carmelite Missionary in South India. Joined the order in 1691 and the Mogol Mission 1704, worked in Goa until 1709. When the Italian Congregation of Discalced Carmelites was expelled from Goa in…
ILDEPHONSUS A PRAESENTATIONE BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS (lay Joseph Igris). Skalitz/Szakolcza, Diocese Neutra, Hungary (now Skalica in Slovakia) 1724 — Mielec, Austrian Galicia (now Poland) 30.10. 1790. Father. Austrian or Hungarian (?) Carmelite Priest and Missionary in South India. Joined the order (its Polonian Province) in 1748 in Cracow. In 1756-59 studied…
IHLEFELD, Konrad Adolph Anton. Rühn (or Wismar?), Mecklenburg 21.2.1837 — Muchow near Rostock 18.11.1906. Rev. German Lutheran Missionary in South India. Son of Eduard Ihlefeld (1805–1854), an official, and Johanna Caroline Schander (1810–1849). From 1858 studied theology at Rostock. He was minister in Eldena, near Ludwigslust, but after loosing his…
HAY, John. Stuartfield near Aberdeen 23.4.1812 — Madras 28.10.1891. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Patrick Hay, educated at Aberdeen University, M.A. 1833. Ordained priest 1839. “In 1839 joined the Madras Mission of the L[ondon] M[issionary] S[ociety], and the staff of the British and Foreign Bible Society about…