SCHARBAU, Carl Anders (soon C. A. Skriver-Scharbau). Garstedt 8.12.1903 — 24.3.1983. German Priest and former Student of Indology/Religion. Became interested in Buddhism in 1920. A heart defect slowered his career, but later also saved him from war service in the army. Ph.D. 1932 Tübingen. Ordained 1933 in Hamburg. In 1934-58…
SAZANOVA, Natal’ja Mihajlovna. Moscow 19.1.1932 — 17.4.2006. Russian Indologist (Hindi Literature). Daughter of official. Graduated 1954 from Moscow in history. Kand. filol. nauk 1962, Dr. filol. nauk 1984. From 1958 taught at Institute of Oriental Languages, Moscow University. Professor’s title 1989. Publications: At least 50 items, e.g. kand.diss. Problematika dramaturgii…
SALET, Pierre. Paris 10.11. or 9.3.1875 — Paris 20.11.1936. French Astronomer interested in religions. Son of Georges Salet (1844–1894) and Louise Zélie Roger d’Hostel. From 1899 student of astronomy at Paris Observatory, aide-astronome 1906, astronome adjoint 1912, astronome titulaire 1927. Married 1906 Marie Thérèse Bazin (1881–1970), three sons. Publications: Les…
RÜPING, Klaus. Burg near Magdeburg 8.8.1940 — 7.9.2005. German Indologist. Professor in Münster. Son of economist Erich Rüping and his wife, elementary school teacher Hildegard Rüping, grew up in Bochum, gymnasium there until 1959. Then studies of Classics at Münster, from 1963 also Indology (under Hacker), 1963-64 one year at Bonn.…
ROGER RIVIÈRE, Juan. 1903 — ????. Spanish Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Active as early as 1947. Professor of Indology (or Oriental Art) at Complutense in Madrid in the 1960s. Publications: El pensamiento filosófico de Asia. 533 p. Madrid 1960. – La India. 262 p. Barcelona 1962. – “The problem of…
PIKE, Albert. Boston 29.12.1809 — Washington, D.C. 2.4.1891. U.S. Author, Poet, Orator, Editor, Lawyer. and Confederate General. Son of Benjamin Pike and Sarah Andrews. Grew up in Byfield and Newburyport, Mass. Self-educated, worked as teacher in Gloucester, North Bedford, Fairhaven and Newburyport. In 1831 left for west, stayed first in…
PELLY, Richard Lawrence. Coldharbour, Surrey 18.7.1886 — Salisbury, Wiltshire 7.4.1976. Rev. British. Son of Rev. Canon Richard Arnold Pelly (1856–1949) and Margaret Jane Buxton (1859–1903). Educated at Marlborough College. Studies at Cambridge (Clare College), B.A. 1910, M.A. 1912. In 1915-18 served as army chaplain. In 1918-26 Vice-Principal of Bishop’s College…
PARRINDER, Edward Geoffrey Simons. New Barnet, Hertfordshire 10.4.1910 — 16.6.2005. British Scholar of Comparative Religion. Methodist minister. Son of a glove dealer, of a practising Wesleyan Methodist family. Educated in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, when 16 began working as a railway booking clerk. Interested in religion and mission studied 1929-32 at Richmond…
PAREJA Casañas, Félix Maria. Barcelona 15.12.1890 — Alcalá de Henares 26.8.1983. S.J. Padre. Spanish Islamic Scholar. Joined S.J. in 1915. Noviciate in Valenci. Studied in Zaragoza, Barcelona and Cambridge. Ph.D. 1935 Madrid (diss. on al-Andalus). In 1935-39 taught Arabic, Islamology and Latin at Bombay University. In 1939-54 taught Missiology and Islamology at…
MULLENS, Joseph. London 2.9.1820 — Chakombe (in Tanzania) 10.7.1879. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Richard Mullens. From 1837 studied at Coward College, a dissenting academy training people for nonconformist ministry, affiliated to University of London, graduating B.A. 1941. Further studies in Edinburgh. Ordained Congregational minister in 1843 and…