AGANINA, Ljudmila Aleksandrovna. Moscow 23.1.1926 — Moscow 25.12.2000. Russian Linguist (Uigur and Nepali). Daughter of an official. Studies in Moscow, graduated 1950. Kand. filologičeskih nauk 1954, in 1954-58 in the redaction of Sovetskoe vostokovedenija. From 1958 working as naučnyj sotrudnik at the Oriental Institute of Academy of Science in Moscow.…
ADAM, Leonhard. Berlin 16.12.1891 — Bonn 9.9.1960. German Ethnologist in Australia (naturalized 1956). Son of Meinhardt Michael Adam and Katharina Clare Rosa Schmidt. Gymnasium in Berlin. From 1912 studied law, economics, ethnology and Sinology at Berlin and Greifswald, LL.D. 1916 Greifswald. Worked as judge in Berlin, but kept his interest…
ABRAMJAN, Rafik (Ajrik) Ašotovič. Kušči 12.11.1929 — 1998. Armenian Historian. Son of Ašot Gareginovič Abramjan (1903–1983), an Armenian scholar. Graduated 1952 from Yerevan, taught there from 1958. Kand. ist. nauk 1963, dr. ist. nauk 1982. From 1954 naučnyj sotrudnik, 1970 staršij naučnyj sotrudnik, Docent 1978, Professor 1985 in Yerevan. Publications: Dr.diss.…
ABERIGH-MACKAY, George Robert. Bengal (?) 25.7.1848 — Indore 12.1.1881. British (Scottish) Teacher in India. Son of Rev. Dr. James Aberigh-Mackay, D.D. (1820–1908) and Lucretia Livingston Reed, educated privately in Scotland. Studies at Oxford (Magdalen College School) and Cambridge (St.Catherine’s College). Joined Indian Education Department in 1870 in Bareli, 1873 Professor…
ABAEV, Vasilij Ivanovič (Oss. Vaso Abajty). Kobi, rajon Kazbeg, Georgia 15(28).12.1900 — Moscow 18.3.2001. Russian Iranian and Caucasian Scholar, himself of Ossetian Origin. Born in a village, in 1910-18 school in Tbilisi, then elementary school teacher in Kobi. From 1922 studied at the Oriental Faculty in St.Petersburg, graduated 1925 in…
PEAL, Samuel Edward. Marylebone, Middlesex 31.12.1834 — Moran, Sibsagar, Assam 29.7.1897. British Lay Ethnographer and Botanist. Son of Abraham Samuel Peale (1799–1838) and Sarah Elizabeth Penson. Originally an artist, in 1862 went to India and became a tea-planter near Sibsagar, on the edge of the flood plain of the Brahmaputra.…
ZISTL, Karl Georg. Hengersberg, Bavaria 1885 — Friedrichshafen 1953. German Librarian. Studied Indology (E. Kuhn) and Musicology at Munich, but in 1911 began as wissenschaftlicher Hilfsarbeiter in the Munich university library. Military service in WW I, seriously wounded. Returned to library in 1919. Catalogued Oriental and Slavic collections. Retired 1952. Married…
ZINKGRÄF, Willy. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 23.10.1903 — 19??. German Teacher and former Student of Indology. Son of Friedrich Zinkgräf and Elisabeth Beinder. Gymnasium in Mannheim. Student of Walleser at Heidelberg as early as 1922, also studied Germanistics. In the 1930s worked at Walleser’s institute. Ph.D. 1939 Heidelberg. In 1940 living…
ZIMMER, Heinrich Friedrich. Kastellaun near Koblenz 11.12.1851 — Hahnenklee in Harz (or Berlin?) 29.7.1910. German Indologist and Celtic Scholar. Professor in Greifswald and Berlin. Son of farmer Heinrich Peter Zimmer and his wife Wilhelmine. Studied classics and Indology at Strassburg (Goldschmidt) and Tübingen (Roth), also Germanistics (Scherer) and Celtology (Windisch), strongly…
ZIMIN, Aleksandr Semënovič. Krasnoe Selo near St. Petersburg 11.(23.)8.1880 — Leningrad early 1942. Russian Indologist. Born in a peasant family, educated in St.Petersburg. After military medical school worked in 1897-1908 in hospitals of St.Petersburg and in Sestroreck nearby, but also passed high school studies. In 1909 left the army and began…