DALES, George Franklin, Jr. Akron, Ohio 13.8.1927 — Berkeley 18.4.1992. U.S. Archaeologist. Professor in Berkeley. Son of G. F. Dales, Sr. (1902–1990) and his wife Anita (see below). In 1945-48 served in marine corps in China, then studied at University of Akron (B.A. 1953 in Classical studies) and University of…
CYBIKOV, Gombožab Cèbekovič (G. Tsöbikov, G. Tsèbègèj, born G. Montuev). Urdo-Aga, district Čita, Transbaikalia 20.4.1873 — Aginskoe, Burjatia 20.9.1930. Russian Buryat Scholar of Buddhism. Son of Cèbek Montuev, a literate and well-to-do Buryat, and his wife Dolgor Šugdarova, a Lamaist Buddhist family. After gymnasium in Čita (one of the first…
CURTIUS, Carl Georg. Lübeck 16.4.1820 — Hermsdorf bei Warmbrunn in Silesia (now Sobieszów, Poland) 12.8.1885. German Indo-Europaean and Classical scholar. Son of Carl Georg Curtius (1771–1857; Syndikus of Lübeck) and Dorothea Catharina Plessing (1783–1851), younger brother the famous classical archaeologist of Ernst Curtius (1814–1896). After Gymnasium in Lübeck studied classical and…
CUMONT, Franz Valéry Marie. Aalst, East Flanders 3.1.1868 — Woluwe-Saint Pierre near Brussels 20.8.1947. Belgian Scholar of Ancient Religions, History and Archaeology. Son of Florent Cumont (1830–1912), a textile factory owner, and Augustine Faider (1837–1890), educated in Brussels. Studies at Ghent, Ph.D. 1887. Then further studies at Bonn, Berlin, Vienna…
CRAVEN, Roy Curtis, Jr. Cherokee Bluffs, Alabama 29.7.1924 — 30.5.1996. U.S. Artist and Art Historian, also painter, sculpturer and photographer. Son of R. C. Craven, Sr. (1891–1968) and Edna Pearl Morris. In 1942-46 served in U.S. Air Force. Studies at University of Tennessee in Chattanooga (B.A. 1949), Art Students League…
COXE, William Henry. 1840 — 18.12.1869, when 29. British Classical Scholar. The eldest son of Henry Octavius Coxe (1811–1881), the Librarian of Bodleiana, and Charlotte Esther Turner (1804–1895). From 1858 studies of Classics and Sanskrit at Balliol College, Oxford. Characterised as a Sanskrit scholar, but from 1861 worked in British…
COUVREUR, Walter. Antwerpen 25.7.1914 — Edegem, Prov. Antwerpen 17.9.1996. Belgian Linguist and Scholar of Tocharian. Son of Dr. Louis Lepold Fidèle Couvreur (1891–1960), a paediatrician, and Cornelia Biestraeten (1884–1947). After school in Antwerpen studies at Leuven (A. Carnoy), also under Sieg at Göttingen (now also Tocharian). Ph.D. Leuven 1936 in…
CORDIER, Henri. New Orleans 8.8.1849 — Paris 16.3.1925. French Scholar of Asian History. Son of Ernest-Eugène Cordier (1811?–1880), a Savoyan working in the U.S.A. as businessman and banker, and Amélie-Henriette Oudin. In 1852 he came to France with his mother and was educated in Paris, also while his parents were…
CORBIN, Henry (born Henri Eugène Corbin). Paris 14.4.1903 — Paris 7.10.1978. French Philosopher, Theologian and Scholar of Iranian Religion and Islam. Son of Henri Arthur Corbin, a wealthy businessman, and Eugénie Fournier (d. 1903), grew up with an aunt. Born in a Protestant family, but had catholic education. Studied philosophy…
CORAL-RÉMUSAT, Gilberte, comtesse de (née Gilberte Joanne Marie de Rémusat). Paris 17.12.1903 — Lausanne 18.10.1943. Mme. French Art Historian of South and South-East Asia. The only daughter of Pierre, comte de Rémusat (1864–1946), a politician, and Germaine Stieldorff (1881–1966), grandniece of —> Abel-Rémusat (1788–1832). In 1928-29 visited French South-East Asia, especially Angkor and…