GATTI, Riccardo. Jesi 25.8.1879 — Cattolica, prov. Rimini 16.9.1967. Italian Linguist. Ph.D. A friend of Trombetti, followed his methods of daring linguistics comparisons. His Andaman–Papua–Australian language family (also combined with Munda and Dravidian) never found many followers. He was teacher (professor) of Italian, Greek and Latin at Ginnasio Vittorio Emanuele…
GARTHWAITE, James Grant Liston. 1833 — Glenelg, South Australia 21.12.1918. British Missionary and Teacher in India. Trained as teacher at Westminster College,London (B.A.). Worked for Basel Mission in Kerala, arrived at Bangalore 1853. From 1857 director of various schools in India. From 1868 Inspector of schools in Malabar and Canara.…
CLINT, Leonidas. St.Anns Soho, Middlesex 1812 — Dewsbury, Yorkshire 21.7.1897. Rev. British Teacher in India. Graduated M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge. Principal of La Martinière College in Lucknow c. 1845-54, then of Krishnanagar College in Bengal. Returned to England in 1857 he was ordained deacon 1859 and priest 1861. Served…
CLARKE, Annie Barber (born Annie Leland Barber). Deerfield MA 9.6.1861 —19.11.1956. U.S. Teacher and Suffragist, former Student of Indology. Daughter of Henry Barber and Elizabeth Pratt. Studied in 1883-86 at Harvard Annex for women (now Radcliffe College), learned Sanskrit under Lanman. A.M. 1891. For five years worked as research assistant…
BAUDIŠ, Josef. Prague 27.8.1883 — Bratislava 4.5.1933. Czech IE and Celtic Linguist and Folklorist. Gymnasium and studies (1902-06) in Prague. Ph.D. 1906 (under Zubatý). Soon PD at Prague, also taught at a gymnasium there. After WW lived some time in the U.K. studying Celtology. From 1924 Professor at Comenius University in…
VYHNIS, Čeněk (Vincenz). Kostelec nad Labem, Central Bohemia 8.10.1842 — Prague 23.3.1897. Czech Schoolteacher interested in Indology. Studies in 1864-67 at Prague, mainly of classics and philosophy, also Sanskrit under Ludwig. Worked as gymnasium professor of classics in Hradec Králové, finally in Prague. Died of tuberculosis. His Vikramorvaśīya translation remained…
VASSALINI, Ida. Verona 1.11.1891 — Milano 21.12.1953. Italian Poet and Translator. Daughter of Bartolomeo V. and Itala Abati, grew up in Verona. Became early interested in classical and oriental philology, in philosophy and poetry. Studies at Padova and Milano. Worked as teacher in Milano. Refused from joining the fascist association…
VALTONEN, Pertti. 1933 — 1999. Finnish Gipsy Scholar. Studies of Indology, etc. at Helsinki. M.A. 1964 and Lic.Phil. 1968 Helsinki (under Aalto). Then worked as elementary schoolteacher in Imatra in Eastern Finland. His planned Ph.D. dissertation about Indo-Aryan elements in Finnish Romani was never completed, but the manuscript was left…
UHLIK, Rade (born as Aladar Uhlik). Sarajevo 1.2.1899 — Sarajevo 12.6.1991. Yugoslavian Linguist and Gipsy Scholar. Born in a Lutheran family, grew up in Vienna, Budapest and and Belgrade. Studied Germanistics at Belgrade and worked as schoolteacher, then as translator at Tanjug. Later custos in Bosnia-Hercegovina Museum in Sarajevo. He…
THOMPSON, Malcolm Stuart Haughton. 1 Madras 1885 — London 1966. British Tamil Scholar. Son of Robert William Thompson (1843–1919) and his wife Ada Helen Maude (1860–1893). B.A. Worked as teacher in Tamil Nadu, in 1931-32 Principal of Rajahmundry College. Then Inspector of schools in Bangalore (1940). Taught Tamil at S.O.A.S.…