PÉREZ-REMÓN, Joaquín.1922 — 1985. S.J. Father. Spanish Buddhist Scholar. Jesuit missionary in India. Then taught Oriental philosophy at Universidad Jesuita de Deusto in Bilbao. M.A., Ph.D. In his 1980 book he tried to show anatta being a late concept in the Nikāyas. Publications: Agua bendita del Ganges. El siglo de las misiones.…
PERCIVAL, Peter. Prestwich, Lancashire 24.7.1803 — Yercaud (Eṟkāṭu), Salem dt. 11.7.1882. Rev. British Missionary and Indologist (Tamil Scholar) in Sri Lanka and India. Son of Peter and Jane Percival. In 1826 Wesleyan Methodist Mission sent him to Jaffna, worked there until 1829 and after a few years in Bengal in…
PALM, John David (Johann D. P.). Colberg, Pomerania (now Kołobrzeg in Poland) 1775 — Colombo 10.9.1842 (when 66). Rev. German Missionary in Sri Lanka. Began as a weaver, educated in Berlin. Ordained 1802 in London, when 26. Arrived at Trankebar in 1805 and proceeded to Jaffna. Minister of the Dutch Reformed…
OVINGTON, John. Melsonby, Yorkshire bapt. 5.3.1653 — ?.6.1731. Rev. English Priest and Traveller. Son of James and Mary Ovington, a family of yeoman-farmers. Studies at Trinity College, Dublin from 1671, B.A. 1675, M.A. 1678. Then at St. John’s College, Cambridge. His ordination and life in next years remein unknown. When…
OEHLER, Gustav Friedrich. Ebingen, Württemberg 10.6.1812 — Tübingen 19.2.1872. German Lutheran Conservative Theologian and Oriental Scholar. Son of a modest teacher, Georg Friedrich Oehler, and Johanna Gastpar (d. c. 1821). Educated in Ebingen and in the seminary of Blaubeuren, from 1829-33 studied theology and Oriental languages at Tübingen, learned Sanskrit from…
OAKLEY, Edward (or Ebenezer?) Sherman. Richmond, Yorkshire 24.12.1863/64/65? — Ranikhet near Almora 7.8.1934/35? (when 70). Rev. British Missionary in India. M.A. Son of Rev. Henry Oakley (1821–1887) and his wife Mary. Studies at Glasgow, then theology at Airedale College, Bradford. Served London Missionary Society in Almora from 1888. Principal of Ramsay…
NOTTROTT, Carl Gustav Rudolf Eduard Alfred. Oppershausen, Thüringen 19.8.1837 — Steinhagen, Westfalen 20.1.1924. Rev. German Lutheran Missionary in India. Son of Rev. Carl Christiaan Gottlieb Nottrott (1806–1862) and Charlotte Johannette Wilhelmine Olbarius (1809–1846). Gymnasium in Naumburg, from 1860 studies of theology at Halle, then in 1867 left for India as member…
NORTON, Albert Benjamin. Alabama, Genesee county, NY 21.3.1847 — Dhond (Daund), Maharashtra 31.12.1923 (findagrave died in Poona, buried in Dhond). Rev. U.S. Methodist Missionary in India. Son of Moses Norton and Sally Ann Lynch, a farming family. Graduated from Northwestern University and the Garrett Biblical Institute. Arrived in India in…
NICHOLSON, James. 18?? — 1???. Rev. British Wesleyan Missionary in Sri Lanka. Worked in Galle at least from 1867 (1867-75 as school principal), 1887 still there. Finally retired and married Ellen Osborn. Publications: A Pocket Dictionary of the English and Sinhalese Language. 646 p. 1864, 7th ed. rev. by J. de…
NEWTON, John. Doylestown, PA 1.10.1810 — Murree, Punjab 2.7.1891. Rev. U.S. Presbyterian Missionary in India. M.A. Joined American Presbyterian Ludhiana Christian Mission and arrived at Ludhiana in 1835. From 1849 worked in the newly annexed Lahore together with his future son-in-law C. F. Forman. Married Elizabeth Popham Janvier (1812–1857), several…