BACOT, Jacques. St.-Germain-en-Laye (Indre) 4.7.1877 — Paris 25.6.1965. French Traveller and Tibetologist. Born in a family of cloth merchants, son of Raymond B. and Marie Louise Bapterosses. With father and grandfather, who were experienced travellers, he himself made a journey round the world in 1904. In 1907 he conducted his…
AYRTON, Edward Russell. Wuhu, China 17.12.1882 — Tissamaharama 18.5.1914. British Archaeologist in Sri Lanka. Son of William Scrope A., of China Consular Service, and Louisa McClatchie. Educated at St.Paul’s School in London. Archaeological training in Europe and Egypt (as Flinders Petrie’s Assistant 1902-04 at Abydos). In 1905-08 excavated in the…
AYMONIER, Étienne-François. Le Châtelard (Savoie) 26.2.1844 — Paris 21.1.1929. French Colonial Officer and South-East Asian Scholar (the first European Specialist of Khmer and great pioneer of archaeology and epigraphy). Served in South-East Asia in 1869-88. Born in a family of agriculturalists in the then still Sardinian Savoy, son of Claude…
ATKINSON, Robert. Gateshead, Yorkshire 6.4.1839 — Rathmines near Dublin 10.1.1908. British Linguist (IE, Celtic and Sanskrit Scholar) in Ireland. Professor in Dublin. Born in Yorkshire as the only child of John and Ann A., school there. Studies at Trinity College in Dublin in 1856-57 and at Liège, Belgium 1857-58. Then…
ARROWSMITH, Robert. Brooklyn, N.Y. 23.11.1860 — 1.6.1928. U.S. Linguist and Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Son of Milton A. and Phebe Wood. Studies at Columbia University: A.B. 1882, A.M. 1883, Ph.D. 1884; University Fellow in 1882-83 and 1885-86. In 1884-85 further studies at Berlin University. Assistant in Modern Languages at…
ARNOLD, Edward Vernon. South Norwood, London 18.7.1857 — 19.9.1926. British Indologist and Classical Scholar. Son of Rev. Charles Maddock A., educated at Westminster School. Studies at Cambridge (Trinity College) and Tübingen (under R. Roth), graduated from Cambridge in 1879 (B.A., M.A. 1882). Fellow of the Trinity College. In 1884-1924 Professor…
ARIS, Michael Vaillancourt. Havana, Cuba 7.3.1946 — Oxford 27.3.1999. British Tibetan Scholar, Specialist of Bhutan. Son of English father (John A.) and Canadian French mother (Josette Vaillancourt), one of twins (brother Anthony A.). B.A. 1967 Durham. In 1967–73 private tutor of royal children of Bhutan. PG studies at S.O.A.S. in…
ARBMAN, Ernst Gottfrid. Sundsvall 12.4.1891 — Stockholm 16.11.1959. Swedish Scholar of Indology and Comparative Religion. Son of Olof Emanuel A., vicar in Borgsjö, and Marrie Hasselberg, educated in Östersund. Studies at Uppsala: Cand.Theol. 1914, Cand. Philos. 1917, Lic. Philos. 1920. Ph.D. 1922 and Docent at Uppsala University (i indisk filologi…
ANTON, Konrad Gottlob. Lauban (Lubań in Poland) 29.11.1745 — Dresden 4.7.1814. German Oriental Scholar and Linguist. Professor at Wittenberg. In one source (Gel. T.) born in 1743. Son of Konrad A. and Maria Magdalene Zimmer. Studies at Leipzig. From 1775 Professor of Oriental (i.e. Semitic) Languages at the Wittenberg University,…
ANTOINE, Robert. Dolhain, Limbourg 11.8.1914 — Calcutta 17.10.1981. Father. S.J. Belgian Missionary, Indologist and Scholar of Comparative Literature in India. Indian citizen (1950). At the age of 18, in 1932, he joined the S.J. After studies of classical languages and philosophy came to India at the age of 25 (1939).…