FAIRSERVIS, Walter Ashlin, Jr. Brooklyn, N.Y. 17.2.1924 — Sharon, Conn. 12.7.1994. U.S. Archaeologist. Museum Curator and Professor in New York. The only child of the elder W. A. Faiservis (1889–1941) and Edith Hillman Yeager. He had an early interest in archaeology. In 1937 he ran from the school, got a…
FABRICIUS, Johann Philipp. Kleeberg, Hessen 22.1.1711 — Madras 23.1.1791. German Missionary and Tamil Scholar. In India from 1740 until his death. Son of Reinhard Fabricius, an official of Hessen-Darmstadt, a Pietist family. Studies at Giessen (law) and Halle (now also theology). In 1732-36 worked as tutor in his elder brother’s…
FABRI, Charles Louis (Károly Lajos Fábri). Budapest 18.11.1899 — Delhi 7.7.1968. Hungarian Archaeologist and Art Historian in India. Born in a wealthy middle class Jewish family, son of Henrik Lipót Fábri (Frenkl, 1865–1933) and Ilona Fischer, grew up in Budapest. His father owned a hotel, but lost his fortune during…
EWING, Arthur Henry. near Saltsburg, co. Indiana, Pa. 18.10.1864 — Allahabad 13.9.1912. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Indologist in India. Son of farmer James Henry Ewing (1825–1905) and Eleanor Jane Rhea (1830–1914), educated in Saltsburg and Elder’s Ridge. Graduated from Washington and Jefferson College (B.A. 1887) and Western Theological Seminary in…
EWALD, Georg Heinrich August (von). Göttingen 16.11.1803 — Göttingen 4.5.1875. German Oriental, especially Hebrew and Semitic Scholar, but also Indologist, and Theologian. Son of Heinrich Andreas Ewald (d. 1829), a master weaver, and Catharina Maria Ilse (1782–1841). Grew up in Göttingen, after gymnasium studied theology and Oriental languages at Göttingen.…
EVERETT, Charles Carroll. Brunswick, Maine 19.6.1829 — Cambridge, MA 16.10.1900. Rev. U.S. Unitary Theologian interested in Indian Philosophy. Professor in Harvard. Son of Ebenezer Everett (1788–1869), a lawyer and banker, and Joanna Batchelder Prince. Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1850 (A.M.). Then, after brief time at Bowdoin Medical College, LL.D.…
EVEREST, George. Gwernvale near Crickhowell, Wales (or Greenwich?) 4.6.1790 — London 1.12.1866. Sir. British Colonial Officer (Military Engineer) and Geographer in India. Eponymous for Mount Everest. Son of William Tristram Everest (1747–1825), a solicitor and justice of peace, and Lucetta Mary Smith (1766–1809). Educated at the military schools of Great…
EVANS-WENTZ, Walter Yeeling (born Wentz, added his mother’s surname c. 1910). Trenton, N.J. 2.2.1878 — Encinitas, Calif. 17.7.1966. U.S. Traveller, Anthropologist and Tibetologist. Son of Christopher Wentz (1836–1921), a wealthy estate owner from New Jersey, of German origin, and Mary Evans Cook (d. 1898), of Irish descent. Originally a Baptist…
ESTELLER Y MELIÀ, Adolfo. Alcanar (Montsià) near Valencia 10.1.1899 — 18.3.1984. Father. S.J. Spanish Indologist in India. Professor in Bombay. Son of estate manager Hermengildo Esteller and Elisa Melia. Joined the S.J. 1914. Educated in Castellon and Zaragoza, then studies of philosophy at Pontificia Universitá Gregoriana in Rome (Ph.D. there…
ESSERS, Bénard. Den Helder (North Holland) 30.8.1919 — Beekbergen, (Gelderland) 23.6.1960. Dutch Theologian interested in Indology. Son of August Essers and Jaike Plet. Studies at Amsterdam (Faddegon and Lohuizen-De Leeuw). Th.D. 1952 Groningen (under T. C. Vriezen). Then worked as a priest. Married 1951 Jansje Dieuwke (Annette) ten Berge (1925–2019),…