HOFFMANN, Ernst Lothar (Lama Anagarika B. Govinda). Waldheim, Sachsen 14.1.1898 — Mill Valley, California 14.1.1985. German Bauddha. Son of a German father, the owner of a cigar factory, and Bolivian mother, who died when he was three. Became early interested in Buddhism through Schopenhauer. Matriculated in Hannover, in WW I…
HEIMANN, Betty. Wandsbeck bei Hamburg 29.3.1888 — Sirmione at the Lake Garda 19.5.1961. German Indologist in the U.K. and Sri Lanka. British citizen 1939. Daughter of banker Isaac Heimann (1844–1899) and Margarethe Levy (1853–1925), father died when she was 10. After school (Johanneum) in Hamburg studied classical philology and Indology…
HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Stuttgart 27.8.1770 — Berlin 14.11.1831. Famous German Philosopher. Professor in Berlin. Son of Georg Ludwig Hegel (1733–1799), a Pietist official (Rentkammersekretär), and Maria Fromm (1743–1783). After studies of philosophy and theology at Tübingen in 1788-93 he was PD at Jena in 1800-06, school director in Nürnberg…
JONG, Jan Willem de. Leiden 15.2.1921 — Canberra 22.1.2000. Dutch Indologist and Buddhist Scholar in Australia. Professor in Leiden and Canberra. After gymnasium in Leiden studies of Chinese, Japanese and Sanskrit at Leiden in 1939-45 (cand. 1945), at Harvard 1946 (now mainly Sanskrit) and in Paris 1947-50 (now also Tibetan).…
JONES, William. Westminster 28.9.1746 — Calcutta 27.4.1794. Sir. British Pioneer of Indology. Judge in Calcutta. He was the youngest child of the mathematician William Jones (1675–1749), originally a Welshman from Anglesey, and Maria Nix. Lost early his father and was raised by mother. Educated from 1753 at Harrow, where he…
JOHNSTON, Edward Hamilton. Kensington, London 26.3.1885 — Oxford 24.10.1942. British Indologist. Professor in Oxford, in India 1909-24. Son of Reginald Eden Johnston (1847–1922), a banker, and Rose Alice Eyres (1854–1907), educated at Eton. From 1904 studied at Oxford (New College) first mathematics, soon history. In 1907 joined the I.C.S., came…
JOHNSTON, Charles. Ballykilbeg, Down County 17.2.1867 — New York 16.10.1931. Irish Theosophist, Author and Translator of Sanskrit Literature in the U.S.A. Son of William Johnston (1829–1902), M.P. for Belfast, and Georgiana Barbara Hay, a Protestant family. Educated in Derby, England, and at Dublin University, learned Sanskrit, German and Russian. In…
JOHANNS, Pierre. Heinerscheid, Clervaux 1.4.1882 — Arlon, Belgium 8.2.1955. S.J. Father. Luxemburgian Catholic Missionary in India. Tenth child of a large family, Jesuit novice 1903. Ordained priest 1914 in Louvain. Studied theology and philosophy at Louvain (Leuven) and after war two years Indology at Oxford. Th.D. Oxford. In November 1921…
JEVTIĆ, Pavle. 1896 — London 1951. Yugoslavian (Serbian) Indologist. He began his career as a monk and student of theology, but then went to London and studied Indology at S.O.A.S., Ph.D. 1927 there. Returned, he became the disciple of the Serbian guru Dimitrije Mitrinović. He worked in Pressbureau, was portparol…
JENNINGS, James George. New South Wales 14.6.1866 — Penzance 1941. British or Australian Teacher in India. M.A. Oxford. Worked as teacher of English at Muir Central College in Allahabad (1898), between 1906-13 its Principal. Then director of publich instruction for Bihar and Orissa. C.I.E. 1919. Married, children. Publications: From an…