SCERRATO, Umberto. 4.11.1928 — 19.2.2004. Italian Archaeologist and Art Historian. Taught at Naples. Worked on Islamic and Iranian regions, alo participated in Swat excavations. To his memory is dedicated the Museo Orientale Umberto Scerrato in Naples, opened in 2012. Publications: Arte islamica a Napoli. 16+208 p. Napoli 1968; other writings…
SADOC, Lemuel. 1??? — ????. Student of Indian Thought in Germany. M.A. Ph.D. 1924 Frankfurt. Then Professor at St.Stephen’s College in Delhi (1926). In the 1930s taught English, French and German at Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad. He joined American Oriental Society in 1926 – perhaps he was American…
ROST, Ernest Reinhold. Ealing, London 22.8.1872 — Putney, London 23.6.1930. British Physician and Bauddha in Burma. Lieutenant-colonel (1915). Son of German parents, —> Ernst Reinhold Rost (1822–1896), Librarian of India Office, and Minna Laue. Educated at Highgate School and at St.Mary’s. M.R.C.S. & L.R.C.P. 1895, joined Indian Medical Service 1896.…
RIX, Helmut. Amberg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria 4.7.1926 — Colmar, Alsace 3.12.2004. German Linguist (IE and Italic). Professorin Regensburg and Freiburg. Son of a teacher, Hans Rix, and his wife Susanne. In WW II served in navy, then studies of IE, classics and history at Würzburg 1846-47, then at Heidelberg. Ph.D.…
OCHOA, Pierre Charles Olloba d’ (born P. Ch. Olloba). Bayonne 26.2.1816 — Paris 2.6.1846. French Traveller. Illegitimate son of Julie Belles. Educated in Bordeaux. Employed by a shipping company as clerk-trader he visited South India (Madras and Pondichéry) in 1835-36 and now developed an interest in Indian languages and literature. In 1839…
O’BRIEN, Paul Wilfred. 23.5.1908 — 9.2.2001. S.J. U.S. Missionary and Buddhist Scholar. Catholic Priest. From California, joined S.J. in 1925, ordained priest 1938. First went to China as missionary in 1932, then returned for studies. Ph.D. 1941 University of California, Berkeley. From 1945 Superior of Californian Jesuits in China. In…
NEUMANN, Käthe. Berlin 14.7.1903 — Emmerich am Rhein 14.8.1989. German Scholar of Religion and former Student of Indology. Daughter of Otto Neumann and his wife Minna. Studies of Germanistics and Indology at Greifswald and Berlin, then comparative religion at Marburg. Ph.D. 1933 Marburg (under Nobel). From 1937 curator in charge…
MITTELBERGER, Hermann. Klagenfurt 25.1.1935 — Treibach-Althofen, Kärnten 13.5.2004. Austrian IE Scholar. Professor in Graz. School in Klagenfurt, from 1953 studies of classics, IE and Sanskrit at Vienna. Ph.D. 1962 Vienna. In 1957-62 Assistant of Indology at Vienna, then briefly at Utrecht. From 1964 Assistant, from 1969 also PD at Würzburg.…
MELLING, David John. 1943 — 13.9.2004 (when 61). British philosopher working on Greek and Indian Philosophy. Senior Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, teaching also Indian philosophy there. Married Ellen, children. Publications: Wrote i.al. on Plato and on Christian thought. Sources:Indology List 20.9.2004; scanty stray notes in Internet.
MAKAEV, Ènver Ahmedovič. Moscow 28.5.1916 — Moscow 31.3.2004. Russian IE and Germanic Linguist. Graduated from German department at Moscow 1937, taught there 1938-60. Kand. filol. nauk 1940. Dr. filol. nauk 1964 (diss. on German). In 1954-76 worked in German section of Linguistic Institute of Soviet Academy. Professor 1971. Publications: Edited:…