PLATNER, Samuel Ball. Unionville, Conn. 4.12.1863 — at sea 20.8.1921. U.S. Classical Scholar also interested in Sanskrit. Son of William Platner (1818–1883), a factory owner, and Emily Childs Ball, brother of theologian John Winthrop Platner (1865–1921). Studies of Classics and Sanskrit at Yale (A.B. 1883, Ph.D. 1885), further studies in…
PIZZI, Italo. Parma 30.11.1849 — Turin 5/6.12.1920. Italian Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor in Turin. Born in a large family of nobility, son of Agostino Pizzi and Maria Teresa Prussia. At school Kerbaker was his teacher and made him interested in Indo-Iranian studies. Studied at Pisa Semitic, Indian and Germanic languages under…
PIZZAGALLI, Angelo Maria. Milano 6.6.1883 — Milano 8.11.1944. Italian Indologist. Greatgrandson of —> P. G. Maggi. Student of Formichi at Pisa. Ph.D. From 1913 PD of Sanskrit at Pisa. From 1914 Professore incaricato di Sanscrito e Civiltà Indiana at Genoa, then at Milano. Also worked as schoolteacher of Greek and…
PISCHEL, Richard. Breslau 18.1.1849 — Madras 26.12.1908. German Indologist. Professor in Kiel, Halle and Berlin. Son of Ernst Gottfried Pischel, a manufacturer of surgical instruments, and Emilie Haertel (d. 1857). After school in Breslau studied Sanskrit (under Stenzler) and classical philology at Breslau. Ph.D. 1870 Breslau. After army service in…
PISANI, Vittore. Rome 23.2.1899 — Como 22.12.1990. Italian IE and Classical Scholar, also much interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Milano. From 1916 studied in Rome, but in 1917-18 participated in the WW I. Ph.D. 1921 Rome (diss. on the Helena of Euripides). From 1930 PD (libero docente) at Università di…
PINNA, Emilio. 18?? — 19??. Italian Author interested in Sanskrit, in the 1910s. From Cagliari (?). Publications: Translated: “Ṛtusaṁhāra o il Ciclo delle Stagioni: poemetto lirico-erotico tradotto dall’indiano antico con note critiche ed esegetiche e un raffronto col Meghaduta”, Mem. della R. Accad. delle Scienze di Torino 61, 1911, 1-59;…
PINCOTT, Frederic. 1836 — Lucknow 1896. British Indologist. Apparently he was in India. Last years living in London (1892). Without giving any details my heritage.com mentions Fr. P. who was born c. 1836 and married Elizabeth. Publications: With C. A. Godde de Liancourt, Primitive and universal laws of the formation and…
PICKFORD, John. 18?? — 1???. Rev. British Indologist. Studies at Oxford (Brasenose College) under Monier Williams (1865 there), Boden Scholar of Sanskrit. M.A. Until 1872 Professor of Sanskrit at Presidency College in Madras. Retired from the membership of R.A.S. in 1873. At least he cannot be the same as J.…
PHILLOTT, Douglas Craven. London 28.6.1860 — 11.9.1930. British Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel (1906). Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Rodney Phillott (1812–1876) of Indian army and Lilias Syme. Educated 1874-78 at Felsted School in Essex and from 1880 at Sandhurst. Lieutenant 1881, Captain 1891, Major 1900. Served in Punjab Cavalry, for…
PETRUNIČEVA, Zorja Nikolaevna. Moscow 26.7.1926 — 27.5.1995. Russian Indologist (Historian and Telugu Scholar). Daughter of an official, Nikolaj Alekseevič Petruničev (1899–1942). Graduated 1948 at Moscow University, in history. Kand. istoričeskih nauk 1955. From 1953 naučnyj sotrudnik at Oriental Institute of Academy of Science in Moscow. Married Osip Jakovlevič Hotinski (1919–2016),…