OTRĘBSKI, Jan Szczepan. Silica, Silesia 8.12.1889 — Poznań 25.4.1971. Polish IE and Balto-Slavic Scholar. Professor in Wilno (Vilnius) and Poznań. Son of Stanisław Otrębski and Helena Gasińska. Educated in Kielce, studies at Warsaw (briefly medicine, after few months Slavic, graduated 1913) and Leipzig (Windisch, Leskien and Brugmann). During WW I…
OŠTIR, Karel. Arnače, Velenje 13.10.1888 — Ljubljana 27.12.1973.(Slovenian IE Linguist. Born in a peasant family. After gymnasium in Celje and Maribor he rejected the parental idea of a monastic future and studied from 1909 Linguistics at Graz (Meringer) and Vienna (Kretschmer), 1913-14 in St.Petersburg and London. After military service continued…
OSTHOFF, Caspar Carl Heinrich Gottfried Emil Franz Hermann. Billmerich bei Unna, Westfalen 18.4.1847 — Heidelberg 7.5.1907. German IE Scholar. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of Franz Osthoff, an estate owner, and Lisette Theodore Birnberg. Gymnasium in Gütersloh. Studies of Classics and Sanskrit at Bonn (Gildemeister), then at Tübingen (Roth) and Berlin…
OSTER, Ludwig. Mannheim 27.3.1888 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Son of postmaster, Geh. Oberpostrat Ludwig Oster After school in Berlin, gymnasium 1897-1901 in Erfurt and 1901-05 Konstanz. In 1905-08 studies at Berlin, of classical philology, linguistics and especially Indology under Pischel, after Pischel’s death continued at Heidelberg under Bartholomae…
OSIPOV, Aleksandr Mihajlovič. Karsunsk. u. Simbirskaja gub. 11.(23.)8.1897 — 19.2.1969. Russian Historian of India. Son of a farmer. Graduated 1926 from Moscow. Kand. ist. nauk 1942, Docent 1942, Professor 1963. In 1932-36 naučnyj sotrudnik at International Agrarian Institute. Taught at Moscow Oriental Institute in 1926-35 and from 1936 at Moscow…
ORVILLE, Albert d’ (Le Comte d’Orville, Dorville). Brussels 12.8.1621 — Agra 8.4.1662. Father. S.J. Belgian Missionary. Son of a nobleman, Louis Le Comte, seigneur d’Orville, and Anna Hellincx. Joined Jesuits in 1646 and studied at Ingolstadt and Louvain. He volunteered to China Mission and was ordained priest in 1654, then…
ORTERER, Georg (1901 Ritter von O.). Wörth bei Erding, Upper Bavaria 30.10.1849 — Munich 5.10.1916. German Student of Indo-Iranian, then Teacher and Bavarian Politician. Son of Philipp Orterer (d. 1862), an elementary school teacher, and Therese Bartel. Educated in Erding, Scheyern and 1864-68 in Freising. From 1868 studies of Classics…
ORTA, García d’ (G. de Orta, ab Horto, del Jardin; Anrique de Orta). Castelo de Vide in Central Portugal close to Spanish border 1501? — Velha Goa 1568 (or at latest 1572). Spanish physician and botanist in Portuguese service in India, from 1534 until his death. Born in eastern Portugal…
ORME, Robert. Anjengo (Anchuthengu), Travancore 25.12.1728 — Great Ealing (London) 13.1.1801. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Historiographer of the E.I.C. Son of Surgeon Alexander Orme of E.I.C. and his wife, née Hill. In the age of two he was sent to his aunt in London, educated at Harrow…
ORLICH, Leopold Ludwig von. Stallupönen, Ostpreussen (now Nesterov in Kaliningrad oblast) 30.6.1804 — London 2.6.1860. German Officer, Traveller and Historian. Major. Son of a Prussian officer, Major Ludwig Julius von Orlich (1755–1810), and Frederike Charlotte von Klingspor. Military education in Kadettenkorps of Potsdam in 1812-22, then served also himself in Prussian…