CONVERSE, Hyla Stuntz (née Hyla Clark Stuntz). Lahore 31.10.1920 — Tulsa, Oklahoma 6.10.1990. U.S. Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Daughter of Clyde Bronson Stunz (1886–1965) and Florence Ada Watters. B.D. 1949 Union Theological Seminary. Ph.D. 1971 Columbia. At Oklahoma State University (1974). Married 1951 Paul Everett Converse (1921–1993). Publications: Edited: God’s…
CALMEYER, Peter. Halle 5.9.1930 — Berlin 22.11.1995. German Archaeologist and Iranian Scholar. Son of Hans Georg Calmeyer, an attorney-at-law, and his wife Ruth, grew up in Osnabrück. After matriculation from Osnabrück studied from 1950 classical archaeology at Münster and Munich, from 1955 Near Eastern archaeology at F.U.Berlin. Ph.D. 1965. Then…
BEČKA, Jiří. Prague 16.10.1915 — Prague 21.12.2004. Czech Iranian Scholar. Gymnasium in Prague. From 1936 studied law and Oriental languages at Prague, then much belated because of WW II. Dr. juris 1945. Ph.D. 1954. In 1952-76 librarian and research scholar at Institute of Oriental Studies, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, then…
BALIN, Viktor Iosifovič. Bolšoe Muraškino 20.10.1925 — 1991. Russian Indologist (Hindi). Son of a worker. 1943-45 in Red Army. Graduated 1951 Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1956. Docent 1961. From 1952 taught at Oriental Faculty (1972 kafedr. ind. filologii), Leningrad. Publications: Kand.diss. Prem Čand – novellist. Manuscript of 426 p. Lg. 1956.…
BALAKIN, Andrej Andreevič. Orel (Oryol) 13.8.1883 — after 1926. Russian Oriental Scholar. Son of Andrej Il’ič Balakin, an army surgeon in reserve, and his wife Ekaterina Andreevna. Matriculated 1904 from Orlov classical gymnasium. Studied Oriental languages (especially Arabic under Krymskij) at St. Petersburg. Publications: ???. Sources: *M. Ju. Sorokina, “Kto…
ASSAS Y EREÑO, Manuel de. Santander 28.6.1813 — Santander 16.6.1880. Spanish Historian and Oriental Scholar. Born of Santander oligarchy, in 1825-27 at Seminario Conciliar de Burgos, then studies of law at Madrid (graduated 1836). In 1838-39 studied architecture at Instituto Cántabro. In 1839-57 worked in Semanario Pintoresco Español, finally its…
ALSTON, Anthony J. 1919 — 2004. British (?) Indologist specialized in Advaita Vedānta. Pupil of Hari Prasad Sastri (d. 1956). Ph.D. 1964 under T. R. V. Murti on Post-Śaṁkara Advaita Vedānta, Banaras Hindu University. Later living in London. Publications: Diss. Early Post-Samkara Advaita. Diss. B.H.U. 1964 (manuscript). – Translated: Sureśvara, Naiṣkarma-siddhi. The realization…
ALFARIC, Prosper. Livinhac-le-Haut (Aveyron) 21.5.1876 — Paris 28.3.1955. French Historian of Religions. Professor in Strasbourg. Born as the oldest of seven children of a modest, deeply religious catholic viticulturist family, soon ruined by Phylloxera. With the help of local vicar he went to school and then to seminary St.Sulpice in…
VORLÄNDER, Franz. Röttgen near Bonn 15.9.1806 — Marburg 31.3.1867. German Philosopher. Roman Catholic. Lost early his father, educated by his mother, school in Siegen and gymnasium briefly in Wetzlar. Studied at Bonn and 1832-34 Berlin (under Lachmann and Schleiermacher), also learned Sanskrit from Bopp. Ph.D. 1834 Berlin. PD 1842 Berlin,…
SCERRATO, Umberto. 4.11.1928 — 19.2.2004. Italian Archaeologist and Art Historian. Taught at Naples. Worked on Islamic and Iranian regions, alo participated in Swat excavations. To his memory is dedicated the Museo Orientale Umberto Scerrato in Naples, opened in 2012. Publications: Arte islamica a Napoli. 16+208 p. Napoli 1968; other writings…