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…
MORRETTA, Angelo (Dan Petraşincu). 1910 — 1997. Italian-Romanian Scholar of Religion. Ph.D. From 1951 living in Rome, probably died there. Publications: Gli dei dell’ India: breve enciclopedia illustrata del pantheon indù. 364 p. Milano 1966. – Il pensiero vedanta. 396 p. Studi contemporanei 6.Rome 1968. – La parola e il silenzio. Una…
MOBERGER, Peter Otto Olofsson. Kalmar 26.7.1787 — Klinte, Gotland 26.7.1854. Swedish Clergyman. Son of Olof Moberger (1755–1800) and Emerentia Wejdling (1760–1794). From 1806 studies at Lund, ordained priest 1810. From 1820 Vicar of Klinte. Married 1814 Barbara Catharina Salomon, five daughters and two sons. Publications: Dissertatio historica, de Zoroastre et codice, …
MILBURN, Robert Gordon. 30.5.1870 — 1968. Rev. British Missionary in India. After ordination worked as priest in London. Went to India as missionary, but lost his faith and turned to teaching. Vice-Principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta, 1906-14. Also Lecturer in Logic and Philosophy at Calcutta University. Married Mary. Publications: England and…
MASCARÓ FORNÉS, Joan (Juan Mascaro). Santa Margalica / Santa Margarita, Mallorca 8.12.1897 — Comberton, Cambridge, U.K. 19.3.1987. Spanish (Catalonian) Poet, Translator and Philologist. Son of a farmer family. School in Palma, then worked in British consulate in Palma. Studied English, Sanskrit and Pāli at Cambridge and in Jaffna. From 1933…
LEARNED, Dwight Whitney. Canterbury, Conn. 12.10.1848 — Claremont, co. Los Angeles, Calif. 19.3.1943. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Theologian. Son of Rev. Dr. Robert Coit Learned (1817–1867) and Sarah Birdseye Whitney (1824–1864), lost his mother when 16. Studies at Williston Seminary and from 1867 at Yale College (B.A. 1870) and University.…
LAFONT, Gaston Eugène, comte de. 1862 — 19??. French Author. Publications: Grandes religions. Le buddhisme. Précédé d’un essai sur le védisme et le brahmanisme. 318 p. 1895. – Le mazdéisme, l’avesta. les grandes religions. 12+374 p. P. 1897. – Les origines de la nationalité française: essai sur les Celtes, les Kymris,…
KLEUKER, Johann Friedrich. Osterode am Harz 24.10.1749 — Kiel 31.5./1.6.1827. German Protestant theologian. Professor in Kiel. Son of shoemaker Johann Christian Kleuker (1715–1758) and Dorothea Magdalena Rose (1716–1770). From 1770 studied theology, philology and philosophy at Göttingen. Soon befriended with J. G. Herder. From 1778 secondary school principal in Osnabrück.…
JOHNSON, Willard Lyon. Des Moines, Iowa 30.5.1939 — Pauma Valley, Calif. 29.12.2006. U.S. Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Son of the elder W. L. Johnson and Margerie Elta Hackenberg. Studies at Oberlin College (B.A. 1961) and University of Wisconsin in Madison (M.A. 1966), Ph.D. 1972 there in Indian Languages and…