ROSEN, Friedrich (Fritz) Felix Balduin. Leipzig 30.8.1856 — Peking 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…
ROOS-KEPPEL, George Olaf (also referred to as Ross-Keppel, added Keppel in 1890). London 7.9.1866 — London 11.12.1921. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel (1907). Son of Gustaf Ehrenreich Roos (1838–1926), a Swedish merchant in England, and his English wife, Elizabeth Annie Roffey. “Joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1886, and…
ROMER, John. Ancroft, co. Durham 1780 (Wikipedia. c. 1770) — 22.8.1858. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Robert Romer and Frances Marshall. In 1816/23 he was Government Agent in Surat. Member of the Council in Bombay, acted as Governor of Bombay for a brief period in January to March…
ROGERS, Henry Thomas. ?.1.1830 — St.Leonards-on-sea, Sussex ?.11.1898. British Colonial Officer in Burma. In 1848-49 at Addiscombe, then joined Madras Engineers. Served in the second Burma war, Lieutenant 1854. Finally Principal of Madras Civil Engineering College at Fort St. George. Returned to the U.K. in 1880 and retired as Major-General…
ROCA Y LÓPEZ, Pedro.Tarancón (Cuenca) 9.10.1856 — Madrid 21.1.1903. Spanish Scholar. Dr.phil. In Sanskrit student of Gelabert y Gordiola, as librarian of Barcelona University gave first Sanskrit teaching there. Later in Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid Publications: Review of Gelabert y Gordiola’s Manual de lengua sanscrita in La Unión católica 24. &…
RIVERO GODOY, Francisco María (also R. y Godoy). 18?? — 1???. Spanish Diplomat and Sanskrit Scholar. Son of Nicolás María Rivero, a politician and diplomat. Grew up in Málaga, studied law and philosophy at Madrid. Ph.D. 1866 (diss. on Demosthenes). From 1877 the first Professor of Sanskrit at Madrid, but after…
RIMKA, Albinas. Skerpieviai 16.2.1886 — Vilnius 27.2.1944. Lithuanian Politician, Economist, Statistician and Tagore Scholar. Educated in Lankeliskiu, studied economics in Germany (Frankfurt a. M.) and Netherlands. In 1911 emigrated to the U.S.A., where he edited a Lithuanian newspaper until 1917. After brief time in Voronež he returned in 1818 to…
RICE, Henry. 1846 — 19??. Rev. British Missionary in South India. Son of Rev. —> Benjamin H. Rice and Jane Peach Singer (d. 1864). Studies and ordination in London. Worked about 10 years for London Missionary Society in Tamil Nadu, but in 1880 moved to Church of Scotland Mission in…
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.…
RECZEK, Józef. Szczepanów, Lesser Poland 16.2.1936 — Ibid. 13.2.1988. Polish Indo-European, Slavonic and Iranian Linguist. Son of Alojzy Recheck and Anna Kargol. Studies at Cracow in 1953-59 (i.al. under Pobożniak and T. Milewski). Ph.D. 1967 (diss. on Slavonic), from 1986 taught at Cracow University as Docent. Publications: Hab.diss. Najstarsze slowiańsko–irańskie stosunki językowe.…