CAUSSIN DE PERCEVAL, Armand-Pierre. Paris 11.1.1795 — Paris 15.1.1871. French Oriental (Arabic) Scholar. Son of Jean-Jacques-Antoine Caussin de P. (1759–1835, like his son Professor of Arabic at Collège de France) and Catherine Félicité Labroue (d. 1802). From 1814 studied in Constantinople and travelled in the Near East. In 1833–71 Professor of Arabic…
VOLCK, Johann Christoph Wilhelm. Nürnberg 18.11.1835 — Rostock 29.5.1904. German Oriental Scholar and Theologian in Estonia. Professor at Dorpat (Tartu) and Rostock. Son of a factory owner, Andreas Volck (1800–1888), and Karoline Pauline Amalie Schürer. Gymnasium in Nürnberg. In 1853-57 studied philology and theology at Erlangen (i.al. under Spiegel), for…
STONEHOUSE, John A. 17?? — 18??. British Civil Servant in India. In 1780 Assistant to Collector in Shawabad, in 1795/96 Collector in Medinipur, soon in Midnapur, soon in Midnapur, then judge in Calcutta and from 1802 in Benares. Publications: “Letter from the Emperor Akbar to Abdûllah Khan. the Usbeck, Ruler…
STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz. Prossnitz, Moravia (now Prostějov in Czechia) 30.3.1816 — Berlin 24.1.1907. Moravian Jewish Rabbi, Bibliographer and Semitic Scholar. Son of Jacob Steinschneider (1782–1856), a Talmud scholar, and Hani Zadek-Weizenkern (1792–1859). After school Talmudic studies in Prague (1833-36) and Vienna, now also other Semitic languages. Pressed by anti-Jewish laws of…
SILVESTRE DE SACY, Antoine Isaac (baron 1814). Paris 21.9.1758 — Paris 21.2.1838. French Oriental (Arabic and Persian) Scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of Abraham Jacques Silvestre (1722–1765), a notary, and Marie Marguerite Judde, a Jansenist Jewish family, lost early his father. Educated in a Benedictine abbey, also learned Semitic languages…
SCHMIDT, Heinrich Wilhelm Arnold. Hörde near Dortmund 16.2.1868 — Fribourg 10.2.1954. Father, S.V.D (Society of the Divine Word). Famous German Anthropologist and Linguist in Austria and Switzerland. Austrian citizen 1902. Son of Heinrich Schmidt (1819–1870), an ironworker, and Anna-Maria Mörs. From 1883 educated by S.V.D. in the Netherlands, in 1890…
RÜCKERT, Friedrich Johann Michael. Schweinfurt 16.5.1788 — Neusess bei Coburg, Franken 31.1.1866. German Poet, Translator, Oriental Scholar and Indologist. Professor in Erlangen and Berlin. Son of Johann Adam Rückert (1763–1831), a lawyer, and Maria Barbara Schoppach (1766–1835). After gymnasium in Schweinfurt (1802–05) studies of law, languages and literature at Würzburg…
ROSEN, Friedrich (Fritz) Felix Balduin. Leipzig 30.8.1856 — Beijing 27.11.1935. German Diplomat and Oriental (Persian and Urdu) Scholar. Son of the diplomat Georg Rosen (1820–1891), from Lippe, and Serena Anna Moscheles (1830–1902), nephew of —> Friedrich A. Rosen. The father was also an Arabic and Persian scholar who translated the…
ROCA Y LÓPEZ, Pedro.Tarancón (Cuenca) 9.10.1856 — Madrid 21.1.1903. Spanish Librarian. Educated in Cuenca, studies at Madrid. Dr.phil. In Sanskrit student of Gelabert y Gordiola, as librarian of Barcelona University gave first Sanskrit teaching there. From 1889 worked in Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid Publications: Review of Gelabert y Gordiola’s Manual de…
REMPIS, Christian Herrnhold. Josingen, Kr. Esslingen, Baden-Württemberg 18.8.1901 — 4.6.1972. German Iranian and Persian Scholar. Professor in Tübingen. In 1921-32 worked as schoolteacher, then studies at Tübingen and Berlin. Ph.D. 1937 Berlin. PD from 1944 at Tübingen, in 1950-69 apl. Professor für Iranistik und Islamwissenschaft there. Also interested in Pahlavi.…