SUALI, Luigi. Bologna 29.9.1881 — Pavia 9.3.1957. Italian Indologist. Professor in Pavia. Son of Vincenzo and Genovieffa Zucchini, himself took the name of his grandfather. Studied at Bologna under Pullé, graduated 1903. In 1903-05 further studies under Jacobi at Bonn. PD 1907 Bologna. In 1909-10 Acting Professor at Pavia, then…
STASIAK, Stefan Bołeslaw. Warsaw 22.2.1884 — London 9.2.1962. Polish Indologist. Professor in Lwów (now L’viv in Ukraina). Son of Adam Stasiak and Waleria Tuchowska. Studies of Philosophy, then of Indology at Vienna (under L. von Schroeder), Munich (Simon), Zürich (Kaegi) and Paris. Ph.D. with a dissertation on the unicorn legend.…
STRAUSS, Otto. Berlin 18.10.1881 — Bloemendaal, Netherlands 20.10.1940. German Indologist. Professor in Breslau. Son of banker Moritz Strauss and Hermine Massenbach. Studied Indology, philosophy and art history at Munich, Berlin and especially Kiel (Oldenberg, Deussen). From Deussen got the interest in Indian philosophy. Ph.D. 1905 Kiel (under Oldenberg). PD 1911…
SMET, Richard V. de. Montignies-sur-Sambre near Charleroi 16.4.1916 — Brussels 2.3.1997. Father. S.J. Belgian Missionary and Indologist. Came to India in 1946 as a Jesuit student, studied Theology and then also Sanskrit in Calcutta (i.al. under R. Antoine). Ph.D. 1954 Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome, in Philosophy. Back in India, from…
SIMONSSON, Nils. Offerdal, Jämtland 12.11.1920 — Uppsala 22.5.1994. Swedish Indologist. Professor in Oslo and Uppsala. Son of a farmer, Simon Simonsson, and Helena Olofsson. Educated in Offerdal and Östersund. From 1941 studies at Uppsala under H. Smith, passed fil.kand. 1945 and fil.lic 1951. In 1949 further studies in Paris under…
SILBURN, Lilian. Paris 19.2.1908 — Le Vésinet (Yvelines) 19.3.1993. Mademoiselle. French Indologist. Daughter of English father and French mother. From 1938 studied philosophy, and soon also Indology under Lévi, Masson-Oursel and Renou in Paris. Dissertation on Indian philosophy in 1949 in Paris. In 1949 she went to India and remained…
SIAUVE, Suzanne. Lille 27.12.1919 — Quœux-Haut-Maînil (Pas-de-Calais) 12.8.1975. French Indologist. Daughter of a gynaecological surgeon, Jean-Georges Sieve-Évausy and Lucienne Elise Fidéline Pruvost, went to school in Lille. From 1939 studied at École normale superieure de Sèvres. From 1943 taught at Lycée Jeanne d’Arc in Rouen. Agrégé de philosophie 1945. Now…
SHARPE, Phoebe Elizabeth (née Lavnder). Bangalore 1888 — 8.1.1941. Miss. British Authoress interested in Indian Society. No scholar. Daughter of Horace William and Alice Lavender. In 1905 married John Charles Sharpe (1877–1943), an officer, but later separated (no formal divorce). She spent more than twenty years in India and was…
SEMENCOV, Vsevolod Sergeevič. Rudne-Garbovka, Žitomirskaja oblast’, Ukraine 2.7.1941 — Moscow 12.1.1986. Russian (Ukrainian?) Indologist. Son of Sergej Pavlovič Semencov, a forest engineer, and Varvara Ivanovna Orlova, a geologist. Studied first music, from 1963 Indian Philology at Moscow Institute of Oriental Languages, in 1967-68 also at Banaras Hindu University. In 1968-84…
SCHAYER, Stanisław. Sędziszów, Malopolski 8.5.1899 — Otwock near Warsaw 1.12.1941. Polish Indologist. Professor in Warsaw. Son of Antoni and Maria Schayer. From 1916 studies at Warsaw, then soon philosophy and Indology at Heidelberg (under Liebich and Walleser) and Freiburg i.Br. (E. Leumann, Husserl). Ph.D. 1921 Freiburg. Further studies at Munich…