FRIEDMAN, David Lazar (Lasar). Amsterdam 26.2.1903 — London 11.4.1984. Dutch Buddhist Scholar and Art Historian in the U.K. Born in a Jewish family engaged in diamond trade. After school in Amsterdam he studied three years Sanskrit at Utrecht (under Caland), then history of religion, Sanskrit and Indian art and archaeology…
FOUCHER, Alfred Charles Auguste. Lorient (Morbihan, Bretagne) 21.11.1865 — Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine) 30.10.1952. French Indologist, Art Historian and Archaeologist. Professor in Paris. Son of a teacher of literature, lost his mother at birth. Educated in Morlaix and Rennes. In 1881 came to Paris, now studies at Lycée Henri IV, then from…
FISCHER, Klaus. Zittau (Sachsen) 23.11.1919 — Bonn 25.3.1993. German Archaeologist and Art Historian of South Asia. Professor in Bonn. Studied archaeology and art history at Heidelberg, Ph.D. there 1948 (diss. on barock architecture). In 1952 obtained a travel grant and studied two years art history in Calcutta under J. N. Banerjea…
FERGUSSON, James. Ayr 22.1.1808 — London 9.1.1886. British (Scottish) Architect and Historian of Indian architecture. Son of Dr. William F. (1773–1846), a noted army surgeon and medical author, educated at Edinburgh High School and at Hounslow. He came early to Calcutta and served at Fairlie, Fergusson & Cny, where his…
FABRI, Charles Louis (Károly Lajos Fábri). Budapest 18.11.1899 — Delhi 7.7.1968. Hungarian Archaeologist and Art Historian in India. Born in a wealthy middle class Jewish family, grew up in Budapest. His father owned a hotel, but lost his fortune during the WW I. After war service, six years of studies…
ECKE, Emil-Wilhelm-Gustav. Bonn 13.6.1896 — Honolulu 18.12.1971. German Art Historian in China and U.S.A. Son of Gustav Ecke (1855–1920), Professor of Theology. From 1914 studies at Bonn, Berlin and Erlangen. Ph.D. 1922, on European art. In 1923 went to China, taught at several universities there: 1923-28 Amoy University, 1928-33 at…
EASTMAN, Alvan Clark. Munich 10.1.1894 — Cambridge, MA 9.9.1959. U.S. Art Historian. Son of Charles Rochester E. (1868–1918), a geologist and palaeontologist, and Caroline Amelia Clark, born in Germany where his father was studying. From 1923 Assistant in Oriental Division in Museum of Fine Art in Boston. In 1925-29 Curator,…
DUPONT, Pierre. Paris 3.12.1908 — Bangkok 16.10.1955 (Auboyer: 31.12.1908–18.10.1955). French Archaeologist of South-East Asia (especially Cambodia). Professor in Paris. Studies of Indology, South-East Asian studies, art and archaeology in Paris under Lévi, Foucher, Picard and Stern, at É.P.H.É., Institut d’éthnologie and École du Louvre. Worked in Musée Guimet, in French…
DOROW, Wilhelm. Königsberg 22.3.1790 — Halle 16.12.1846. German Antiquarian Scholar. A precursor of Indian art history who, according to Mode, did not share the common contempt of Indian art of his times. Lost early his father, educated in Marienburg (Malbork in Poland). For a while studied at Königsberg. Moved 1811…
D’JAKONOVA, Natal’ja Vasil’evna. St.Petersburg 28.11.(11.12.)1907 — 1996. Russian Iranian scholar. Daughter of an official. Graduated 1930 from Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1946. In 1931 naučnyj sotrudnik in Ukrainian Oriental Institute (?) in Harkov, in 1932-35 and 1942-45 at Oriental Institute of Soviet Academy, in 1935-42 and 1945-54 at Hermitage. Apparently…