GAUTHIOT, Robert-Edmond. Paris 13.6.1876 — Val-de-Grâce, Paris 11.9.1916. French Linguist, specialist of Iranian and Uralic, a Pioneer of Sogdian Studies. Son of a French teacher of German, Charles Simon Gauthiot, and a German mother, Elise Wilhelmine Augusta Langerhans (b. 1849). Educated in Paris at Lycée St.Louis (where his father was…
GARIBAY KINTANA, Ángel María. Toluca, México 18.6.1892 — Ciudad de México 19.10.1967. Mexican Linguist (Nahuatl Scholar) also interested in Sanskrit. Educated in Santa Fe and Ciudad de México. Librarian and student at Seminario Concilias de México, ordained as priest in 1917. Worked as a minister in Jilotepec, México, learned there…
GARCIN DE TASSY, Joseph-Héliodore-Sagesse-Vertu. Marseille 20.1.1794 — Paris 2.9.1878. French Indologist (Hindi-Urdu) and Oriental Scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of Joseph Jacques Garcin, a stockbroker, and Claire Virginie Tassy. Educated in Marseille, where he also learned spoken Arabic. From 1817 studies of law in Paris, at the same time Persian…
GARCIA AYUSO, Francisco. Valverde del Camino (V. del Majano) near Segovia 24.7.1835 — Madrid 17.5.1897. Spanish Indo-Iranian Scholar. Lost his parents when 11. Studies of humanities at Segovia. In 1859 went to Tangier and Tetuan, where he learned Arabic and Hebrew. After returning studied at the Seminario de San Lorenzo…
GALLÉE, Johan Hendrik. Vorden, Bronckhorst 9.9.1847 — Utrecht 3.2.1908. Dutch Linguist. Professor of IE Philology at Utrecht. Son of mayor Johannes Hermannus Gallée (1822–1901) and Neeltje van Olst. After school in Zutphen studied from 1866 at Leiden, among other things also Sanskrit under Kern. Ph.D. (Litt. Hum. Dr.) there 1873…
GÄRTCHEN, Adolf Friedrich Hermann Paul. Herrnstadt, Kr. Guhrau, Silesia (now Wąsosz in Poland) 14.10.1881 — 19??. German Teacher and former Student of IE Linguistics. Son of Hermann Gärtchen, a schoolteacher. Educated in Oela, from 1900 studies at Breslau, under O. Hoffmann, Hillebrandt, et al. Ph.D. 1905 Breslau. Further studies of…
GABELENTZ, Hans Georg Conon von der. Poschwitz bei Altenburg (Thüringen) 16.3.1840 — Lemnitz (Thüringen) 11.12.1893. German Sinologist. Son of —> H. C. von der Gabelentz (1807–1874) and Henriette von Linsingen. After gymnasium in Altenburg studied law at Jena (or Halle, also linguistics). He worked from 1864 as an assistant judge…
GABELENTZ, Hans Conon von der. Altenburg (Thüringen) 13.10.1807 — Lemnitz bei Triptis (Thüringen) 3.9.1874. German Linguist. Son of chancellor Leopold von der Gabelentz (1778–1831) and Marianne von Seebach (1784–1876), of an old Saxonian noble family. Together with the publisher F. A. Brockhaus and two other friends the father invented the…
FUMI, Fausto Gherardo. Montepulciano (Tuscany) 17.10.1840 — Genoa 1915. Italian Linguist interested in Sanskrit Literature. Studies at Pisa (under Bardelli, diplome 1862), Florence and Leipzig. First teacher in Liceo di Reggio-Calabria, then taught at University of Palermo in 1887-90 and from 1890 at Genoa, where he became ord. Professor of…
FRY, Morton Allan Harrison. London, U.K. 13.2.1910 — New York ?.4.1979. U.S. Indologist. Son of Morton Harrison Fry (1888–1971), a banker, and Julia Gladys Angell. The family lived from 1917 in Montclair, NJ. After Montclair High School studies at Princeton (A.B. 1932, A.M. 1933, Ph.D. 1935). In 1935-37 further studies…