ALFARIC, Prosper. Livinhac-le-Haut (Aveyron) 21.5.1876 — Paris 28.3.1955. French Historian of Religions. Professor in Strasbourg. Born as the oldest of seven children of a modest, deeply religious catholic viticulturist family, soon ruined by Phylloxera. With the help of local vicar he went to school and then to seminary St.Sulpice in…
WORLITZKY, Franz. 1??? — 19??. Austrian Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1931 Vienna. Publications: Diss. Die Ādityas und ihre Beziehungen zu den anderen Göttern des vedischen Pantheons. Manuscript, Vienna 1931. Sources: Diss. in Janert; nothing further information found.
WODILLA, Paul. 4.3.1903 — 7.3.1982. Slovakian student of Indologyin Germany. Gymnasium in Kežmarok, matriculated 1922. Then studied theology and philosophy at Bratislava, in 1926 moved to Erlangen. Ph.D. 1928 Erlangen. Then returned to Czechoslovakia, but 1946 moved to Karlsruhe. There he was working in town administration (Stadtrat 1959-71). Publications: Diss. Niedere…
WAYMAN, Alex. Chicago 11.1.1921 — New York 22.9.2004. U.S. Indologist and Buddhist Scholar. Professor in New York. During WW II served in the army, over three years in the Philippines, Okinawa, and Australia (also studies at University of Queensland). Studied Mathematics at U.C.L.A.: B.A. 1948, M.A. 1949. Then from 1952…
ROST, Ernest Reinhold. Ealing, London 22.8.1872 — Putney, London 23.6.1930. British Physician and Bauddha in Burma. Lieutenant-colonel (1915). Son of German parents, —> Ernst Reinhold Rost (1822–1896) and Minna Laue. Educated at Highgate School and at St.Mary’s. M.R.C.S. & L.R.C.P. 1895, joined Indian Medical Service 1896. Worked as civil surgeon…
NEUMANN, Michael. 1??? — ????. Austrian Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1927 Vienna. Publications: Diss. Der Vṛtra-Kampf in der indischen Literatur. Manuscript, Vienna 1927. Sources: diss. in Janert.
NEUMANN, Käthe. Berlin 14.7.1903 — Emmerich am Rhein 14.8.1989. German Scholar of Religion and former Student of Indology. Daughter of Otto Neumann and his wife Minna. Studies of Germanistics and Indology at Greifswald and Berlin, then comparative religion at Marburg. Ph.D. 1933 Marburg (under Nobel). From 1937 Assistant at Marburg…
LYSEBETH, André van. Brussels 11.10.1919 — Perpignan 28.1.2004 (France). Belgian Yoga Instructor and Author. From 1949 pupil of Swami Sivananda (whom he only met in person in 1963). Married, children. Publications: Tantra, le culte de la féminité. 1988; English transl. Tantra: the cult of the feminine. 13+386 p. York Beach,…
LESLIE, Isobel Julia. Dar es Salaam 23.1.1948 — Buckinghamshire 24.9.2004. British Indologist. Daughter of John Arthur Kingsley Leslie and his wife Elizabeth Helen. Studied philosophy, French and German at University of Sussex, then six years in South Asia. M.Phil. 1980 and D.Phil. 1983 Oxford. In the 1980s at Harvard in…
KÖNIG, Franz B. Warth bei Rabenstein, Lower Austria 3.8.1905 — Vienna 13.3.2004. Austrian Orientalist and Scholar of Religion, Roman Catholic Priest, Cardinal. Son of Franz K. (1867–1913) and Maria Fink. Gymnasium in Melk. Studies at Vienna and Rome (under Messsina). Ph.D. 1930 Rome. In 1933 ordained priest in Rome. In…