DESGODINS, Auguste. Manheulles (Meuse) 16.10.1826 — Padang (Pedong) near Darjeeling 14.3.1913. Father. French Missionary and Tibetan Scholar. Son of Charles Michel François Desgodins, an officer, and Marie Joséphine de Roton. Studied theology in the seminaries of Verdun and Saint-Sulpice, ordained priest in 1850. After a few years as priest in…
DE’ NOBILI DE MONTEPULCIANO, Roberto (Robertus de Nobilibus, Tattuvapodagar [‑pōtakar]). Montepulciano near Siena 1577 — Mailapur (Chennai) 16.1.1656. Father. S.J. Italian Missionary in South India. Born of a family of high nobility (related to the Duke of Modena), son of Pierfrancesco De’ Nobili and Clarice Ceoli (Oceoli). Joined the S.J. in…
DENIS, Eugène. Corps-Nuds, Brittany 2.2.1921 — Bangkok 11.12.1986. S.J. Father. French Missionary and Pāli Scholar in Thailand. Grew up in a deeply Catholic family. After seminary in Rennes became Jesuit novice in Laval. In 1948 sent to China, learned the language but was soon expulsed by communists in 1951. Ordained…
DEMING, Wilbur Stone. Boston, Mass. 13.3. or 24.10.1889 — Bridgeport, co. Fairfield, Conn. 31.10.1971. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India. Son of Rev. Miner Rudd Deming (1844–1925) and Mary Frances Losey. After Revere and Sharon High Schools (graduated 1906) studies at Boston and Brown Universities (graduated 1912). Ph.D. From 1912 member…
DE MAGISTRIS, Hyacinthus (Giaccinto). near Cremona 1605 — Goa 11.11.1668. S.J. Pater. Italian Missionary in India. Entered S.J. in 1626. After 7 years’ studies of humanities in Italy left for India for the rest of his life. Worked in Cranganore, South India (in 1644-49 secretary and confessor of the Archbishop),…
DAVIES, John. 1812? — London 18.9.1890. Rev. British Indologist and Welsh Scholar. From Salford. From 1838 studies at Cambridge (St.John’s College, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845). Ordained priest 1842. Curate of Smallwood in 1853-57, Rector of Walsoken, Norfolk 1857-71, then retired from church service and moved to London. Married 1846 Mary…
DALGADO, Sebastião Rodolfo. Assagão village near Mapuça (Mapusa), Goa 8.5.1855 — Lisbon 4.4.1922. Monsenhor. Indo-Portuguese Indologist. Professor in Lisbon. Born in a Brahman family, his ancestors were called Desai. Son of Ambrose Dalgado, a landowner in Bardez, and Florinda Rosa de Souza. School in Assagão and Mapuça, Goa, studies of…
DAHLMANN, Joseph. Koblenz 14.10.1861 — Tokyo 22.6.1928. Father. S.J. German Indologist, later in Japan. Son of a tailor, Johann Simon Dahlmann (1831–1905), and Catharina Schulten (1827–1892), educated in 1873-78 at Feldkirchen Jesuit College, joined the S.J. in the age of 17 in 1878. Studies in the Netherlands, the U.K. and…
BAER, Emil. Rifferswil in Loo, Canton Zürich 23.12.1884 — Dielsdorf, Canton Zürich 8.11.1945. Swiss Priest and Student of Indology. Son of the factory owner Theodor Baer and Anna Leuthold. School at home village, in Affoltern and in Zürich, from 1906 studies at Zürich: theology, classical languages, Arabic and Sanskrit (under…
CUMMINGS, Thomas Fulton. New Wilmington, co. Lawrence, PA 3.9.1863 — Albany, NY 6.2.1942. U.S. Presbyterian Missionary in the Puñjab. Son of Professor James Beveridge Cummings (1827–1896) and Mary Ann Reid. After Westminster College studies at Union Theological Seminary 1886-87 and at Allegheny Theological Seminary 1887-89. Ordained priest 1889 and soon…