SYKES, William Henry. near Bradford, Yorkshire 25.1.1790 — Kensington, London 16.6.1872. British Colonial Officer in India, with wide scholarly interests. Colonel. Son of Samuel Sykes, an estate owner. Entered as cadet in 1803, Lieutenant in Bombay Army 1805, participated in the siege of Bharatpur. Learned soon Hindī and Marāṭhī and…
STORCK, Friedrich Wilhelm Paul. Letmathe, Kr. Iserlohn, Westfalen 5.7. 1829 — Münster 16.7.1905. German Linguist (German & Romance) interested in Pāli. Son of teacher Franz Storck (1791–1861) and Maria Catharina Elisabeth Höynck (1793–1848). Educated in Arnsberg. From 1850 studies of Germanics at Munich, Münster, Bonn and Berlin. In Berlin also…
STEINGASS, Franz Joseph (Francis Joseph). Frankfurt/Main 16.3.1825 — ibid. ?.1.1903. German Oriental (Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit) Scholar in the U.K. Born in a Jewish family, studies at Munich. Ph.D. 1846 Munich. Around 1870 moved to England. Professor of Modern Languages at Wakefield Grammar School in Birmingham for five years, then…
SCHOLBERG, Henry Caesar. Rushford, Filmore County, Minnesota 11.10.1879 — Daytona Beach, Florida 2.10.1969. Rev. U.S. Methodist Missionary and Hindi Scholar. Born in a modest family of Norwegian immigrants, son of Ole Peter Scholberg (1853–1938) and Maren Christine Johnsen. Studies at Methodist Hamline University in St.Paul. Arrived with his wife in…
SCHOFF, Wilfred Harvey. Newtonville, MA 27.11.1874 — Lower Merion, PA 14.9.1932. U.S. Classical Scholar and Historian of Commerce and Economy. Son of Frederic Schoff and Hannah Kent (1853–1940). A.B. 1894 Harvard, A.M. 1896 University of Pennsylvania. In 1899 representative of Philadelphian Export Expedition in South America, Portugal, Spain and France.…
SCHOTERMAN, Jan Anthony. Amersfoort 27.3.1948 — Amersfoort 29.6.1989. Dutch Indologist. Son of Willem Rudolf Schoterman (1917–1984) and Randi Oppedal (1912–1984). Educated in Amersfoort. In 1968-73 studies of Indo-Iranian and Dravidian at Utrecht, travelled in South and South-East Asia. Ph.D. 1982 Utrecht (under Bodewitz). Taught Indology at Utrecht, for a while…
SCHOMERUS, Hilko Wiardo. Marienhafe, Ostfriesland 7.1.1879 — Halle 13.11.1945. German Missionary and Indologist (Tamil Scholar). In India 1902-12, Professor in Halle. Son of a physician, Cornelius Poppäus Schomerus (1835–1920), and Friederike Sophie Ries. Educated in Emden and from 1897 at missionary seminary in Leipzig, left for India in 1902 following…
STRANGE, Thomas William Lumisden. Madras 4.1.1808 — Norwood, London 4.9.1884. British Civil Servant and Lawyer in India. Son of —> Thomas A. L. Strange (1756–1841) and Louisa Burroughs. “Educated at Westminster and Haileybury, 1824-26. Joined the Madras Civil Service, 1826. Was Commissioner to inquire into the Moplah disturbances in Malabar, 1852.…
SCHRIJNEN, Joseph Charles François Hubert (Jozef Karel Frans Hubert Schrijnen). Venlo, Limburg 3.5.1869 — Nijmegen 26.1.1938. Mgr. Dutch IE Scholar. Professor in Nijmegen. Son of Adriaan Schrijnen (1832–1909), a chemist, and Maria Canoij, educated in Roermond. From 1888 studied classical philology and linguistics at Louvain (under de Harlez, Colinet, et…
STEIN, Burton. Chicago 1926 — 26.4.1996. U.S. Historian of South Asia. Grew up in Chicago. Served in WW II, then studies at Chicago campus of the University of Illinois (no B.A.) and at the University of Chicago (M.A. 1954, Ph.D. 1957). Taught 1957-65 at Minneapolis and 1965-83 at University of…