KINCAID, Charles Augustus. Indore 8.2.1870 — Fulham, London 15.8.1954. British Civil Servant, Historian and Marathi Scholar in India. Son of —> General William Kincaid (1831–1909) and Martha Pattie Shortt, educated at Sherborne School and Balliol College, Oxford. Passed I.C.S. examination 1889, arrived in India in 1891. In 1891-94 Assistant Collector…
HERMANNS, Matthias. Köln-Niehl 31.5.1899 — St.Augustin bei Bonn 5.1.1972. Father, S.V.D. German Missionary, Ethnologist and Tibetan Scholar. Roman Catholic priest. Educated in a Catholic gymnasium in 1914-17 and 1919-21 in the Netherlands, in 1917-18 trained as a pilot in Lübeck. Entered then the Society of Divine Word (S.V.D.) and studied…
JACKSON, Arthur Mason Tippetts. 30.12.1866 — Nasik 21.9.1909. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Son of Mason Jackson (1820–1903) and Lucy Berriman Tippets. M.A. Oxford. Served in the I.C.S. as District Collector in Bombay Presidency, finally chief magitrate of Nasik. Murdered, shot by a seditious Brahman. Bound by his…
HAHN, Karl Heinrich Philipp Ferdinand. Ketzin bei Berlin 25.2.1846 (1845?) — Himalaya 3.5.1910. Rev. German Missionary in India. Son of a shoemaker, learned cobbler’s work as a child, but also went to elementary school. When 14, he made an unsuccesful attempt to emigrate to America, but then became interested in…
HACKIN, J. Ria (Marie Alice, née Parmentier). Rombas, Moselle (then German) 7.9.1905 — on sea 24.2.1941. Luxemburgian, the wife and Secretary of —> J. G. Hackin (1885–1941). Daughter of Jean Parmentier, of Luxemburg. Studies at École du Louvre, Paris. French citizen 1923. In 1923 married Hackin, with him in Afghanistan…
GOVER, Charles Edward. Poplar, Middlesex (ancestry.com: Chatham, Kent) 13.6.1836 — Madras (Chennai) 18.9.1872 (not 20.9.). British Indologist and Folklorist in India. Son of Thomas Gover and his wife Anne. From 1864 Principal and secretary of the Madras Military Orphan Male Asylum at Egmore, Madras. Married 1863 Clara Gertrude Taylor (1845–1917),…
GIL’FERDING, Aleksandr Fedorovič (Alexander Hilferding). Warsaw 2.7.1831 — Kargopol, Arhangelsk oblast 20.7.1872. Russian Historian, Slavic Linguist and Folklorist interested in Sanskrit, a Slavophil. Public servant. Son of Fëdor Ivanovič Gil’ferding (d. 1864), a civil servant, and Amalija Jakovlevna Vitte (d. 1841), ancestors came from Germany in the early 18th century.…
FAWCETT, Frederick. 1853 — Vienna 20.7.1926. British Civil Servant and Ethnographer in India. Served in South India, from 1878 as Inspector, then Superintendent of Malabar Police. From 1905 Deputy Inspector General of Police in Madras, retired before 1911. An amateur archaeologist and anthropologist. Married Elizabeth Lydia (d. 1933). Publications: “On…
ENTHOVEN, Reginald Edward. Hastings, Sussex 23.11.1869 — Boars Hill near Oxford 21.5.1952 (when 82). British Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of James Henry Enthoven (1823–1913) and Miriam Josephine Mozley. Educated at Wellington College, from 1887 studies at New College, Oxford, in preparation to Indian service. Joined I.C.S. in…
EILERS, Wilhelm Max J. Leipzig 27.9.1906 — Würzburg 3.7.1989. German Oriental (Semitic) and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Würzburg. Son of a Gymnasium Professor, matriculated from Zwickau. Studies of musicology, law and Assyriology at Freiburg, Munich and Leipzig (Dr.iuris 1931 Leipzig, with a diss. on ancient Babylonian laws), then Oriental languages…