PEET, Joseph. Spitalfields, London 1.2.1801 — Mavelikara 11.8.1865. Rev. British Missionary in Kerala. Son of Benjamin Peet, a silk dyer, and Elizabeth Lafond. Apparently worked himself as dyer. From 1829 studies at Church Missionary College in Islington (London), ordained deacon 1831 and priest 1832 in London. Joined the Church Missionary…
PEDERSEN, Holger. Gjelballe near Lunderskov, Kolding prov. 7.4.1867 — Hellerup near Copenhagen 25.10.1953. Danish Linguist. Professor in Copenhagen. Born in Jutland as the son of Christen Pedersen (1822–1877), a school-teacher and small farmer, and Dorthe Lauridsen (1826–1920). After school in Ribe he studied from 1885at Copenhagen classical philology, Danish and…
PEARSON, Joseph. Yorkshire 19.4.1881 — Tasmania 20.6.1971. British Zoologist and Marine Biologist also interested in History, Museum Director in Sri Lanka and Australia. Son of Daniel Pearson and Cecilia Parr. Educated at Liverpool College, then at university there. B.Sc. 1902, Liverpool, then postgraduate studies at Manchester. In 1910-33 Director of…
PAVOLINI, Paolo Emilio. Leghorn 10.7.1864 — Quattordio, prov. Alessandria, Piedmont 15.9.1942. Italian Indologist. Professor in Florence. Son of Giovanni Pavolini, a teacher, and Lidia Vanneschi, a noble family. Studied in 1883-86 at Pisa (under Teza), graduated 1886 with diss. on Homeric names and epithets. In 1889-91 further studies at Berlin…
PAVIE, Théodore Marie. Angers (Maine-et-Oise) 16.8.1811 — 1.5.1896 (or 29.4.). French Indologist. Professor in Paris. Son of Louis Joseph Pavie (1782–1859), a printer, and Eulalie Fabre (died early), brother of the poet and art historian Victor Pavie (1808–1886). Educated at Collège Royal d’Angers (baccalaureat 1827). Travelled much in his early…
PAUTHIER, Jean-Pierre-Guillaume. Mamirolle (Doubs) 4.10.1801 — Passy (Paris) 11.3.1873. French Sinologist and Indologist. Began his career as an infantry officer, in army he met Alfred de Vigny and started himself writing romantic poetry. After two and a half years left army in 1826 and pursuing studies of Sinology (Abel-Rémusat) and…
PAULINUS A SANCTO BARTHOLOMAEO (Fra. Paolino da S. Bartolomeo, lay Ivan/Johann Filip Vezdin [or Vesdin, not Verdin or Werdin], in Kerala Paulinus Paathiri). Hof am Leithaberge (Cimov) 25.4.1748 — Rome 7.2.1806. Austrian (Croatian) Missionary and Pioneer of Indology. Carmelite missionary in Kerala 1776-89, then in Rome. Born in Niederösterreich as son…
PAUL, Otto Albert. Berlin 4.5.1888 — Hungen, Kr. Giessen 6.10.1944. German Germanist and Iranian Scholar. A Nazi. Started studies late (1915) at Berlin concentrating on German and Linguistics, from 1924 at Munich (Ph.D. 1927), now also Aryan Philology, under Geiger, then also Wüst. Habilitation 1938 Munich. After a break with…
PAUL, Hermann Otto Theodor. Salbke bei Magdeburg 7.8.1846 — Munich 29.12.1921. German General, IE, and Germanic Linguist, one of the leading Neogrammarians. Professor in Freiburg and Munich. Son of master mason Peter Jakob Paul. After gymnasium in Magdeburgfrom 1866 studies at Berlin (Steinthal) and Leipzig (Zarncke, Curtius & Leskien), where…
PASPATIS, Alexandros Georgios (Aλέξανδρōς Γ. Πασπάτης). Chios ?.5.1814 — Athens 24.12.1891. Greek Scholar interested in Gipsies. Lost his father, Georgios Paspatis, at Chios massacre (1822), was brought to the U.S.A. by a businessman when 8. Educated at “Collège d’Amhust” (i.e. Amherst), then studies of medicine at Padova, Paris and London.…