MOCKLER, Edward. Belgaum 18.9.1842 — Guernsey 4.3.1927. British Colonial Officer. Son of Surgeon-Major Edward Mockler, Sr. (1810–1887) and Ann Sarah Pritchard (d. 1845). Joined Indian Army in 1859. From 1866 mainly in political offices, first in Aden, from 1873 in Makran. From 1979 Assistant to the Governor General’s Agent for…
MARŠAK, Boris Il’ič. Luga 9.7.1933 — Pendžikent 28.7.2006. Russian Archaeologist and Iranian (Sogdian) Scholar. Son of an official, grew up in Leningrad. Graduated 1956 from Moscow in history. Kand. ist. nauk 1965 Leningrad. In 1956-58 naučnyj sotrudnik at Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography in Dushanbe, from 1961 at Oriental…
LUSCHEY, Heinz. Berlin 3.12.1910 — Tübingen 1.1.1992. German Archaeologist of Iran. Son of gymnasium teacher Gustav Luschey (1880–1954), matriculated from his father’s school in Stettin. Studied clasical archaeology at Munich, Ph.D. 1938 (diss. on Greek phiales). Military service in WW II. After war Assistant at Tübingen, PD 1956. In 1956-61…
KREFTER, Friedrich. Emden 15.10.1898 — Bad Honnef near Bonn 25.1.1995. German Architect and Archaeologist, Specialist of Persepolis. Matriculated 1917 from Münster, then served in army. In 1919-22 studied architecture in Hannover and Braunschweig. Worked as architect in Berlin (under Herzfeld’s brother-in-law), soon (1923) Herzfeld’s Assistant. In 1928 to Iran with…
KERŠNER-GORBUNOVA, Natal’ja Grigor’evna. Leningrad 2.3.1927 — 11.9.2000. Russian Archaeologist. Daughter of biologist Grigorij Petrovič Gorbunov (1894–1942) and Elena Mihajlovna Keršner, a music teacher. During WW II evacuated in Tashkent. From 1946 studied ancient history and archaeology of Central Asia in Leningrad. Graduated 1951 Leningrad. Kand. ist. nauk 1962. In 1951-58…
HÄRTEL, Herbert. Hoyerswerda 7.5.1921 — Berlin 23.11.2005. German Indologist, Buddhist Scholar and Art Historian. Studies at Halle and Göttingen (under Waldschmidt). Ph.D. Göttingen 1953. In 1953-62 Curator in Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin. From 1963 Direktor of Museum für indische Kunst in Berlin (which was much his own creation), also…
GITEAU, Madeleine. Nantes 7.6.1918 — Chilly-Mazarin (Essonne) 25.2.2005. Mlle. French Art Historian, Specialist of Khmer Art. After studies of history and geography, she went in 1946 to Cambodia as teacher. Interested in local art and archaeology, on a furlough in Paris in 1951 started the study of Sanskrit (certificat 1961),…
GALESTIN, Theodoor Paul (Theo). Batavia (Jakarta) 5.6.1907 — Noordwijk aan Zee 27.3.1980. Dutch Indologist and Indonesian Scholar. Gymnasium in the Hague. From 1927 studies of Indian and Indonesian philology at Leiden, Ph.D. 1936 (under Krom). Museum Curator in Jogjakarta in 1938-45, then 1945-57 eo. Professor at Amsterdam. From 1957 Professor Archaeology…
DISERENS, Hélène Suzanne. Switzerland 17.11.1920 — Paris 10.11.2005. Swiss (?) Art Historian. Grew up in Kobe, Japan, in the age of 14 she was sent to a school in Switzerland. From 1951 worked as photographer at Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Retired in 1980, then living in Paris. In…
DEBEVOISE, Neilson Carel. Jersey City, NJ 8.11.1903 — Harrisburg, PA 10.12.1992. U.S. Archaeologist and Historian of Mesopotamia and Iran. Studied at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. 1929 (under Olmstead). From 1930 taught at University of Chicago, participated in Seleucia excavations. During WW II in Military Intelligence Service, posted in Egypt,…