JULIUSSON, Per Vilhelm Hilding. Stockholm 18.7.1916 — Vallentuna, Uppland 29.10.1977. Swedish Priest, Missionary, and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Son of estate owner Carl Vilhelm Juliusson (1884–1965) and Anna Elisabet Eriksson. Educated in Stockholm, worked as a teacher. From 1937 renewed studies at Stockholm (M.A. 1941) and Uppsala (M.Theol. 1944), ordained…
JORDANUS CATALANI DE SÉVÉRAC (Jourdain). fl. 1280/1330. Father. French Dominican Missionary in India, of Catalan background. Probably born in Sévérac-le-Château north-east of Toulouse. Arrived in India in 1321 (if not earlier), when he narrowly escaped the killing of missionaries in Thana. After a while in Gujarat he worked from 1323…
JOHANNS, Pierre. Heinerscheid, Clervaux 1.4.1882 — Arlon, Belgium 8.2.1955. S.J. Father. Luxemburgian Catholic Missionary in India. Tenth child of a large family, Jesuit novice 1903. Ordained priest 1914 in Louvain. Studied theology and philosophy at Louvain (Leuven) and after war two years Indology at Oxford. Th.D. Oxford. In November 1921…
JENSEN, Herman. 11.8.1842 — 29.4.1909. Rev. Danish Missionary in South India. Joined the Danish Missionary Society in 1874 and served in Siloam, Tirukoilur (1874-77), and Ranipet (1877-78), then in Madras. After a furlough returned to India in 1887 and served from 1898-1902 in Tiruvannamalai, finally in Bangalore until death. Married…
JARRETT, Thomas. 1805 — Trunch, Norfolk 7.3.1882. Rev. British Oriental Scholar. Professor in Cambridge. From 1823 studies at St.Catharine’s College, Cambridge (B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830). Ordained priest 1831. Fellow and Lecturer in Classics and Hebrew 1828-32. In 1831-54 Adam’s Professor of Arabic, from 1854 until his death Regius Professor of…
JANVIER, Ernest Paxton. Fatehgarh, India 1.2.1890 — Haverford, PA 3.5.1962. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Indologist. Son of Rev. Dr. Caesar Augustus Rodney Janvier (1861–1928) and Susan Duryee Rankin, grandson of —> Levi Janvier (1816–1864). Born in India, came to the U.S.A. in 1905. Studies at Princeton (A.B. 1916), ordained priest…
JAGER, Herbert de. Zwammerdam near Leiden (Dutch Wikipedia Aarlanderveen) 1636 (1637?) — Batavia (Jakarta) 6.1.1694. Dutch Priest and Traveller. Son of a farmer. Studies of theology, of mathematics, botany, astronomy and Oriental languages (under Golius) at Leiden in 1657-62. In service of the Dutch E.I.C. in 1662-94, first in Batavia,…
ITH, Johann Samuel. Bern 11.7.1747 — Bern 8.10.1813. Swiss Priest and Schoolteacher. Son of Johannes Ith (1721–1759), a coppersmith, and Margaritha Stulz, lost early his father. Financed his theological studies at Bern as a tutor, graduated in 1770 and was ordained as priest. Then further studies at Göttingen and Berlin,…
ISENBERG, Karl Wilhelm (Charles William). Barmen, Bergisches Land 5.9.1806 — Kornthal near Stuttgart 10.10.1864. German Missionary and Polyglot. Of humble origin, son of a tinsmith, W. Isenberg (d. 1827), and Luise Stahl, a deeply religious home. He went to Basel Mission School in 1824, then two years studies in Berlin and…
IOANNES BAPTISTA MARIA A SANCTA THERESIA (lay Giovanni Battista Moretovel Multedi). Alassio (Savona) 6.10.1673 — Verapoly 6.4.1750. Italian Carmelite Missionary in South India. Joined the order in 1691 and the Mogol Mission 1704, worked in Goa until 1709. When the Italian Congregation of Discalced Carmelites was expelled from Goa in…