HUDSON, Dean Dennis. San Bernardino, Calif. 16.2.1938 — Northampton, Mass. 10.12.2006. U.S. Scholar of South Indian Religion. Son of Dean Bradshaw Hudson (1902–1992) and Lisle McClellan. Ph.D. 1970 Claremont, California. From 1970 Professor of World Religions at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., retired as Professor in 2000. He made a…
HÖLTY, Arnold Karl Konrad. Jembke, dt. Gifhorn, Niedersachsen 11.8.1800 — 2.9.1857. German Theologian. Son of a priest. Studies ar Göttingen. From 1826 Lutheran Pastor in Uelzen (1836), 1838-42 Superintendet in Osterode, then in Lüneburg until 1852. Provost in Ruelzen 1852-57. Married. Publications: Dsjemschid, Feridun, Gustasp, Zoroaster: eine kritisch-historische Untersuchung über die beiden…
HEISSIG, Walter (Walther). Vienna 5.12.1913 — Rheinböllen 5.9.2005. Austrian Mongolian Scholar in Germany. Professor in Bonn. Studied Mongolian in the 1930s ar Vienna and Berlin. Joined SA 1932, 1934 switched to SS. From 1940 in Peking, also visited Inner Mongolia. Ph.D. 1941 Vienna. He remained the war years until 1946 in…
GUTHRIE, Kenneth Sylvan Launfal. Dundee 22.7.1871 — 1940. British (Scottish) Philosopher and Historian of Philosophy in the U.S.A. Son of William Eugene Guthrie and Frances Silva D’Arusmont (1832–1903). The family was travelling, he was educated in Italy, Germany, Belgium, Scotland and U.S.A. Studied in the U.S.A., at University of the South…
GALESTIN, Theodoor Paul (Theo). Batavia (Jakarta) 5.6.1907 — Noordwijk aan Zee 27.3.1980. Dutch Indologist and Indonesian Scholar. Gymnasium in the Hague. From 1927 studies of Indian and Indonesian philology at Leiden, Ph.D. 1936 (under Krom). Museum Curator in Jogjakarta in 1938-45, then 1945-57 eo. Professor at Amsterdam. From 1957 Professor Archaeology…
DISERENS, Hélène Suzanne. Switzerland 17.11.1920 — Paris 10.11.2005. Swiss (?) Art Historian. Grew up in Kobe, Japan, in the age of 14 she was sent to a school in Switzerland. From 1951 worked as photographer at Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Retired in 1980, then living in Paris. In…
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.…