ALTUCHOW, Nicolás (Mikołaj Ałtuchow)

ALTUCHOW, Nicolás (Mikołaj Ałtuchow). Kiev (Kyiv) 12.9.1912 — Montevideo 3.5.1983. Polish Indo­logist in South America. Born in Ukraina, son of engineer Wladimir Altuchow and Anna Hornung, family moved to Poland in 1917. Student of Stasiak at Lwów (Lviv), in 1936-39 his Assistant. Then emigrated to England. From 1951 he was…

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ALPER, Harvey Paul

ALPER, Harvey Paul. 1945 — 4.4.1987. U.S. Indologist and Scholar of Comparative Religion. Studied at University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. In 1974-87 he was Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, also taught  Sanskrit there. Died suddenly. Publications: Diss. Abhinavagupta’s Concept of Cognitive Power: A Translation…

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ABEGG, Emil

ABEGG, Emil. Küsnacht near Zürich 11.1.1885 — Zürich 12.2.1962. Swiss Indo­logist. Professor in Zürich. Son of merchant Emil Abegg (d. 1894) and Fanny Guggenbühl, school and teacher’s college in Küsnacht. Learned Sanskrit first by himself, then from 1904 studied Germanistics, psycho­logy, Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit (under Kaegi) at Zürich Uni­versity.…

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