CURIEL, Raoul. Cairo 23.6.1913 — Paris 23.2.2000. French (citizen 1947) Indologist, Iranian Scholar, Numismatist and Archaeologist. Son of Daniel C., and his wife Zephira, a wealthy banker, of a Francophone Sephardic Jewish family. In 1933 came to Paris for law study, but also studied Indology (Lévi, Bloch and Foucher), Iranian…
CROMPTON, Charles Arthur. Cork, Munster 21.10.1848 — Cherat near Peshawar 6.7.1875. British (Irish) Colonial Officer in India. Educated in England, entered army in 1869. Noted as a rugby player. Now soon to India, joined Royal Engineers. As Lieutenant served Bengal Sappers and Miners in Roorkee, sent to North-West Frontier. The…
COPE, Henry. 18?? — 187?. British Journalist in India. In 1847 he resided in Delhi and was the secretary of the just-founded local Archaeological Society and editor of the Delhi Gazette. Soon moved to Lahore, founded (1849) and edited the Lahore Chronicle in 1850-56. In the 1860s secretary of Agri-Horticultural Society.…
BROWN, John Coggin. West Auckland, co. Durham ?.10.1884 — 23.6.1963. British Geologist in India and Burma. Son of George Richard Brown and Eliza Bedlington. Educated at King James I School and Armstrong College of University of Durham. Graduated 1904 in geology and chemistry. In 1905 to India as Assistant Superintendent…
COCKBURN, John. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India, interested in Prehistory. Served in Opium Department (1879/83). In 1879 characterized as “late Curator of the Allahábád Museum, Officiating Assistant Osteologist, Indian Museum, Calcutta.” Publications: “Notes on Stone Implements from the Khasi Hills, and the Bhanda and Vellore Districts”, JASB…
CAMPBELL, C. J. 1??? — 1???. C.E. In the 1860s in Delhi. One C.J.C. was in 1856 Assistant Engineer of East Indian Railways in Allahabad, later probably Chief Engineer, and JASB defines our author as Chief Engineer. Publications: “Memorandum on the life-sized Statues lately exhumed inside the Palace of Delhi”,…
BRANDES, Jan Laurens Andries. Rotterdam 13.1.1857 — Batavia (Jakarta) 26.6.1906. Dutch Indonesian Philologist and Archaeologist. Son of a Lutheran priest, Johannes Henrikus Br. and Maria Cornelia Gude. Aften school in Amsterdam studied 1874-79 theology (but also Sanskrit) at Amsterdam Athenaeum (now A. university), in 1879-83 Indology at Leiden (in preparation…
BLAKESLEY, Thomas Holmes. Ware, Hertsfordshire 8.7.1847 — London 13.2.1929. British Civil Engineer and Scientist also interested in Archaeology. Son of Rev. Joseph Williams Bl. (1808–1885), Dean of Lincoln, and Margaret Wilson Holmes. Educated in Smithfield, studies at King’s College, Cambridge, graduated in 1869 (B.A.). From 1872 Government Engineer at Public…
BERGMAN, Folke. Stockholm 29.8.1902 — Stockholm 22.5.1946. Swedish Central Asian Archaeologist. Matriculated 1922 from Norrmalm (Stockholm), studies at Uppsala. Participated in excavations in Visby, then in Sven Hedin’s Chinese expedition 1929-35 and found the tombs of Xiaohe in Lop Nur. In Sweden worked as Amanuens of East Asian collections in…
BELENICKIJ, Aleksandr Markovič. Ljubino (Lobino), Belarus 24.3./6.4.1904 — St.Petersburg 15.6.1993. Russian Archaeologist, Specialist of Sogdian Art. Son of a farmer. After studies in Smolensk worked 1923-27 as a teacher.Graduated 1930 from Taškent. In 1930-34 teacher in Dušanbe and Hudžanda in Tadzhikistan, 1934-37 aspirant at Lenigrad University.Kand. ist. nauk 1938, dr.…