SŁUSZKIEWICZ, Eugeniusz Leonard. Jarosław in South-Eastern Poland 6.11.1901 — Warsaw 28.8.1981. Polish Indologist and Armenologist. Professor in Warsaw. Son of Franciszek Sł. (1875–1944), a gymnasium teacher. Educated at gymnasium in Bochnia. Studied from 1919 at Cracow classical philology, Slavistics, Germanic and IE linguistics, learnt Sanskrit from Rozwadowski. Then studied Indology…
SLOTTY, Friedrich Karl. Brieg, Bez. Breslau (now Brzeg in Poland) 19.10.1881 — Jena 23.12.1963. German (East) IE Scholar. After school in Brieg, studies of Classics and Comparative Linguistics at Greifswald, Breslau and Jena (i.al. under Cappeller and Delbrück). Ph.D. 1905 Jena (diss. on Latin). Worked as schoolteacher, then PD at…
SLIJEPČEVIĆ, Pero. Samobor near Gacka in Herzegovina 12.6.1888 — Belgrade 13.12.1964. Yugoslavian (Serbian) Author and Linguist. Educated in Mostar. Studies of German. Ph.D. 1920 Fribourg in Switzerland. Professor of Germanistics at Sarajevo, after WW II at Belgrade. Publications: Diss. Buddhismus in der Deutschen Literatur. 4+127 p. Vienna 1920. – Other…
SLEEMAN, William Henry. Stratton, Cornwall 18.8.1788 — at sea 10/25.2.1856. Sir. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of yeoman Philip Sleeman and Mary Spray, lost his father in 1798 (or 1802?), mother 1818. In 1809 joined the Bengal Army as infantry cadet, was immediately sent to India. From 1810 Ensign,…
SLÁDEČEK, Bohumil. Dobrovice, Central Bohemia 29.11.1883 — Prague 30.12.1965. Czech Teacher and former Student of IE Linguistics. Studied at Charles University in Prague under Zubatý, Ph.D. there 1917/18. Worked as gymnasium professor. Publications: Diss. Posouvání přizvuku při elisi a konsonanisaci přízvučných vokálů v řečtině a indičtině. Prague 1917/18, summary in Listy…
SKURZAK, Ludwik. Cieszanów near Rzeszów 18.11.1900 — Wrocław 26.2.1979. Polish Indologist. Born in a farmer family. Studied at the Jan Kazimir University in Lwów (L’viv, under Stasiak), M.A. 1932. From 1933 further studies of Indology in Paris, at É.P.H.É. and Collège de France under Renou, Przyluski and J. Bloch. 1937…
SKRINE, Francis Henry Bennett. 1847 — 1933. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. Clarmont Skrine, a retired officer in Wimbledon, and Mary Anne Bennett. Educated at Blackheath School; entered the I.C.S. 1868, served in Bengal and Bihar. In the 1880s worked on famine relief in Bihar and Madras.…
SKREFSRUD, Lars (Laurentius Olsen). Fåberg in Oppland 4.2.1840 — Benagaria (now in Jharkand) 11.12.1910. Norwegian Missionary in India. Born in a modest family, son of Ole Nielsen Skrefsrud and Eli Døsen (1808–1856). His father had alcoholic problem and the boy got almost no education. In his troubled youth he was imprisoned for…
SKÖLD, Hannes (Johannes Evelinus). Västerlövsta, Västmanland 20.9.1886 — Höör, Skåne 14.9.1930. Swedish Indologist and Linguist. Son of the missionary Johan Sköld (1859–1946, in China 1885-1922) and Eva Charlotta Eriksdotter (d. 1931), spent himself the age 4 to 11 in China. Matriculated in 1905 from Norrköping, studied at Göteborg (fil.kand. 1907). Worked as…
SKEEN, William. London 1822 — Sri Lanka 1872. British Printer in Sri Lanka, the first officially appointed Government Printer for Ceylon in 1849-72. From 1860 also had a photographic studio in Colombo. Married with Louisa Matilda Kemp (1822–1864), three sons worked as printers and photographers in Sri Lanka and Burma,…