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.…
STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz. Prossnitz, Moravia (now Prostějov in Czech) 30.3.1816 — Berlin 24.1.1907. Moravian Jewish Rabbi and Semitic Scholar. Son of Jacob St. (1782–1856), a Talmud scholar, and Hani Zadek-Weizenkern (1792–1859). After school Talmudic studies in Prague (1833-36) and Vienna, now also other Semitic languages. Pressed by anti-Jewish laws of Austria…
ROWLANDS, Jane Helen (Helen o Fôn). Menai Bridge, Anglesey 3.4.1891 — Karimganj 12.2.1955. British (Welsh) Missionary in Assam. Daughter of Captain Jabez and Martha Rowlands, grew up in very religious home. Graduated 1911 in French from University College of North Wales in Bangor, also briefly studies at Cambridge (Newnham College).…
RAWSON, Joseph Nadin. Hyson Green Radford, Nottinghamshire 8.5.1880 — Calcutta 19.4.1940. British Scholar of Religion. Son of Joseph Rawson (1856–1940) and Elizabeth Ross. Student of Macdonell and Farquhar at Oxford. Professor of History of Religions and Philosophy of Religion at Serampore College (1934 there). Fellow of Calcutta University. Married 1914…
PEROGLIO, Celestino. Palestro 20.4.1824 — Bologna 20.6.1909. Italian Historian and Geographer, interested in Indian Literature. Taught history and geography at technical school in Vercelli (founded by himself in 1854). In 1861-75 Professor of Geography at Turin. and finally at University of Bologna. A Garibaldian nationalist and a freemason (grand master…
PERINI, Osvaldo. Verona 14.12.1826 — Verona 14.7.1890. Italian Journalist, Author, Historian and Translator interested in Sanskrit Literature. Son of Angelo Perini and Maria Mantica. In 1849 expelled as a nationalist from Verona by Austrian government, worked as teacher in Breno near Brescia, and, after a while in Lugano, in other…
PAULI, Carl Eugen. Barth, Vorpommern 14.10.1839 — Lugano, Switzerland 7.8.1901. German IE Scholar and Etruscologist. Son of Carl Johann Christian Pauli (1789–1856) and Henrica Roepke. Matriculated from Putbus, studies at Erlangen and Greifswald. Ph.D. 1862 Greifswald. Worked as schoolteacher in Stettin, from 1867 Lauenburg/Pommern, 1860 Hannoversch-Münden, 1873 Hannover and 1876-83…
MORRIS, Richard. Bermondsey, London 8.9.1833 — Harold Wood, Essex 12.5.1894. British Philologist, Scholar of Early English and Pāli. Born in a family of Welsh origin, trained as elementary schoolmaster at Battersea Training College. He never studied in a university and was mainly self-taught. In 1871 ordained and obtained a curacy…
MEYER-FRANCK, Helene (née Franck). 1873 — 1946. German Teacher and Translator of Tagore, from 1906 wife of —> H. Meyer-Benfey (1869–1945). Worked as schoolteacher in Hamburg.Learned Bengali for her translating work. Publications: Translated the majority of Rabindranath’s English books into German: Nationalismus. 151 p. Lp. 1919; Die Gabe des Liebenden.…