TALAMO, Vincenzo

TALAMO, Vincenzo. Ardore, Reggio Calabria 7.3.1914 — 2006. Italian Physician interested in Buddhism. In 1925 family moved to Turin, then back in Reggio. Interested early in Buddhism, but studied medicine at Naples and Florence. In the war served in Liguria and Balkan as medical officer. At armistice joined Tito’s partisans,…

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SHERWOOD, Richard C.

SHERWOOD, Richard C. 17?? — 18??. British Physician in India. M.D. Surgeon in Fort St. George. Publications: “Of the Murderers Called Phánsigárs”, As. Res. 13, 1820, 250-181 (on Thugs) .Sources:  Only mentioned in connection of the article.

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QUECKE, Kurt

QUECKE, Kurt. 19?? — 1975. German Physician and Indologist. Ph.D. 1947 Marburg, under Nobel. Also Dr.med. In 1959 Kreismedizinalrat in Marburg. In 1972 apparently in Giessen. Perhaps he is K. Quecke of Essen, born 15.7.1924, student at Tübingen from 1943. Publications: Diss. Die Lehre von den drei Körpern Buddhas (Trikāya).…

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NEVE, Ernest F.

NEVE, Ernest Frederic. Brighton 3.2.1861 — Srinagar 8.2.1946. British Surgeon in India. The youngest child of David Neve, a silk mercer, and Mary Jane Wibmer. After Brighton Grammar School two years in Germany, then from 1879 studied at Edinburgh, from 1882 concentrated on medicine. M.D. 1886 and immediately left for…

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IVES, Edward

IVES, Edward. 1719 — Bath 25.9.1786. British Physician and Traveller. In 1744-46 served as navy surgeon in the Mediterranean and after a while in England in 1753-57 in the flag ship of Vice-admiral Charles Watson, commander-in-chief in the East Indies. After Admiral’s death (1757), and himself rather unwell, returned to…

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HUTCHISON, John

HUTCHISON, John. Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1848 — Chamba 24.7.1936 (when 88). British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Peter Hutchinson and Anne Mcghie. Studied medicine in Edinburgh. Medical missionary of the Church of Scotland in the Punjab. Graduated in 1871 and left for India, where he spent the rest of his…

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HILLER, Hiram M., Jr.

HILLER, Hiram Milliken, Jr. near Kahoka, Clark county, Missouri 8.3.1867 —  Bellefonte, PA 8.8.1921. U.S. Physician, Explorer, and Ethnographer. Son of Colonel Hiram Milliken Hiller, Sr. (1834–1895) and Sarah Fulton Bell. Graduated B.S. 1887 from Parsons College, Iowa. Studied at the medical school of University of Pennsylvania (graduated 1891), met…

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BACH, Claus-Peter

BACH, Claus-Peter. 19?? — 2005. German Physician. Dr.med. Internist in Memmingen. Several visits to the Himalayas. Married with Lissy Bach-Sedel (b. c. 1930), no children. Publications: Mustang: Blick in ein verborgenes Königreich im Himalaya. 192 p. 78 ill. Wb. 1993. – A European travel book. Sources: Scanty stray notes in Internet…

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WISE, James

WISE, James Fawns Norton. 1835 — 1886. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Son of —> Th. A. Wise (1802–1889) and Emily Isabella Disney (1812–1839). Worked ten years in Dhaka, retired. In India he copied inscriptions, collected folklore and conducted ethnographic studies. Publications: “Notes on Sunárgáon, Eastern Bengal”; JASB 43:1, 1874,…

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ROST, Ernest

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.…

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