CHAPPELL, David Wellington. Saint John, New Brunswick 3.2.1940 — Laguna Hills, CAL 2.12.2004. Canadian Buddhist Scholar in the U.S.A. Son of Hayward Lynsin Ch. and Mary Elvira Mosher. B.A. Mount Allison University. B.D. McGill University. Ph.D. Yale, in History of Religions. Taught thirty years (1971-2000) as Professor of Religion at the…
ČERNYŠEV, Vladimir Aleksandrovič. v s. Ljubicke (Pugačevskij raion Saratovskij obl.) 15.7.1927 — 10.10.1999. Russian Indologist (Hindi). Son of a farmer, graduated 1953 in Moscow. In 1952-56 taught at Inst. of Foreign Languages of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Kand. filol. nauk 1958, dr. filol. nauk 1983. From 1956 naučnyj sotrudnik (1971…
BRUNNER, Fernand. Lausanne 8.10.1920 — Cortaillod, canton Neuchâtel 1.11.1991. Swiss Philosopher. Professor in Neuchâtel. Studies at Lausanne (licence ès lettres 1942) and after war in Paris (Ph.D. 1951). From 1954 Professor at Neuchâtel, retired in 1986. In 1956-85 also taught at Bern. Publications: Much on Western and Islamic philosophy, beginning with…
BRIEM, Olof Efraim (born Olsson). Helsingborg 17.9.1890 — Lund 15.6.1946. Swedish Historian of Religions. Son of merchant Olof Ludvig Olsson (d. 1908) and Emma Cecilia Rosendahl. Matriculated 1909 from Lund. Studies at Lund: Cand, theol. 1912, Cand. philos. 1913, Lic. philos. 1915, Ph.D. 1918, Dr. theol. 1923. Ordained priest. From 1918 Docent…
ZALOSCER, Hilde (Zaloszer). Tuzla, Austro-Hungarian empire (now in Bosnia-Hercegovina) 15.6.1903 — Vienna 20.12.1999. Austrian Art Historian and Egyptologist. Professor in Alexandria, Egypt. Daughter of a Jewish lawyer, Jacob Z. and Bertha Kallach. The family moved in 1918 to Vienna, where she then studied prehistory and art history. Ph.D. 1926 Vienna. In…
WIDGERY, Alban Gregory. Bloxwich, Staffordshire 9.5.1887 — Wichester, Va. 22.3.1968. British Scholar of Religion in the U.S.A. Son of Rev. John Thomas W. and Ellen Thomas. Studies at Cambridge (St.Catharine’s College, B.A. 1908, M.A. 1912). From 1908 taught at Bristol University, St. Andrews University, and Cambridge University, for a while…
WEINREICH, Uriel. Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius. Lithuania) 23.5.1926 — New York City 30.3.1967. U.S. (born Polish Jew) Linguist. Son of linguist Max. W. (1894–1969), a specialist of sociolonguistics and Yiddish, and Regina Szabad, came to New York with his father in 1940, citizen 1945 when in army. Studies at Columbia:…
TUCKER, Thomas George. Burnham, Buckinghamshire 29.3.1859 — Stope Cove, Devon 24.1.1946. British Classical Scholar in Australia. Professor in Melbourne. Son of Charles Tucker, agent, and Elizabeth Rolfe. Educated in Northampton and Lancaster, studies at Cambridge (St. John’s College, Fellow 1882). M.A. 1885. From 1883 Professor of Classics and English at…
SWADESH, Morris. Holyoke, MA 22.1.1909 — México City 20.7.1967. U.S. Linguist. Son of Bessarabian Jewish immigrant parents. Etudies at University of Chicago (B.A., M.A.), then followed his teacher E. Sapir to Yale (Ph.D. there 1933). In 1937-39 taught at University of Wisconsin in Madison, then in war service (some time…
STACE, Walter Terence. Hampstead, London 17.11.1886 — Laguna Beach, Calif. 2.8.1967. British Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of Major Edward Vincent Stace (1841–1903) of Royal Artillery and Amy Mary Watson (1856–1934). Educated ar Bath College (1895-1901) and at Fettes College in Edinburgh (1902-04). Planning priestly career he studied at…