BREUIL, Paul René Marie Jouveau du. Vincennes, Paris 15.3.1932 — Neuilly-sur-Seine 19.10.1991. French Scholar of Religion. Studies at É.P.H.É. Fieldwork in Sierra Leone (1954-57) and Mexico (1976-78), then further studies of Oriental religions in the U.S.A. Ph.D. California. Professor of Oriental Anthropology at Columbia Pacific University in San Rafael, Calif. His Jaina book…
BONET-MAURY, Amy Gaston Charles Auguste. Paris 2.1.1842 — Paris 20.6.1919. French Protestant Historian. Son of General Frédéric Bonet (catholic) and Julie Chabrier (protestant). After school in Paris (lycée Henri IV) studies of theology at Geneva and Strasbourg, graduated 1867 from Strasbourg. Protestant pastor in Dordrecht 1867-72, Beauvais 1872-76 and Saint-Denis 1877-79. From…
BATESON, Joseph Harger. Kendal, Westmoreland 5.3.1865 — 5.10.1935. Rev. British clergyman in Burma. Son of Thomas Bateson and Sarah Severs. From 1886 until 1913 Chaplain of territorial Forces, at least initially served in Burma, later in western India. Secretary of Wesleyan Army and Navy Board. Married 1892 Rose Edmeades, one…
ATKINS, Samuel De Coster. Madison, N.J. 25.10.1910 — Pomona, Calif. 20.3.2002. U.S. Indologist and IE Scholar. Professor at Princeton University. Son of Oscar A. Atkins. After Morristown High School studies at Princeton: A.B. 1931, A.M. 1932, Ph.D. 1935. In 1935-37 Assistant at Baylor, then at Princeton: Instructor in Classics and…
ASMUSSEN, Jes Peter. Aabenraa, North Slesvig 2.11.1928 — Copenhagen 5.8.2002. Danish Iranian Scholar, Specialist of Judeo-Persian Literature. Son of engineer Asmus Heinrich Asmussen (d. 1959) and Eline Petersen (d. 1960). Matriculated from Aabenraa in 1948, then studied theology at Copenhagen University: Cand.Theol. 1954. After amy service as military chaplain in…
ANATRIELLO, Pasquale. 1912 — 1986. Father. Italian Missionary of P.I.M.E. and Burmese Scholar. Ph.D. Rome 1969. In 1951-60 parish priest of Loikaw in Karen area. Then at Pontificio Istituto Missioni Estere Trentola Ducenta in Caserta. Publications: “‘Vipassana’ un metodo di meditazione buddista”, Rivista di ascetica e mistica 1, 1966, ??-??;…
ZILBERMAN, David B. (David Benjaminovič Zil’berman). Odessa (now Ukraine) 25.5.1938 — Boston 25.6.1977. Russian (Ukrainian?) Philosopher and Sociologist in the U.S.A. Son of Benjamin Z., an engineer-economist, and Riva Timaner, a physician. Studied engineering and meteorology in Odessa. In 1962-66 meteorogist of Ašhabad Airport in Turkmenistan. In 1962 befriended with…
ZIGMUND-CERBU, Anton. Bucharest 19.10.1923 — New York City 10.3.1964. Romanian Buddhist and South-East Asian Scholar in France and the U.S.A. Born in a family of Jewish intellectuals. Studies at Bucharest, graduated 1946. Left Romania in 1947, first to Paris. Now studies at É.P.H.É. and E.L.O.V. Worked in C.N.R.S. In 1959…
WHITLEY, Edward Hamilton. Mussoorie, India 1866 — Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire 16.3.1945, when 79. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Rev. —> Jabez Cornelius Whitley (1837–1904, 1890-1904 the first Bishop of Chota Nagpur) and Mary Caroline Whittard, educated in England. Studies at Cambridge (Queen’s College, B.A.). Active at least until 1902…
WEINRICH, Friedrich. 28.3.1905 — 8.6.1960. German Scholar of Religion. Ph.D. 1928 Göttingen (or Marburg, under R. Otto?). Then at Jena Theological faculty, from 1939 as PD and 1943 as apl. Professor für Allgemeine Religionsgeschichte. A Nazi. Publications: Diss. Das ‘Gokapilīyam’. Ein philosoph. Gespräch zwischen Kapila und Syūmaraśmi aus dem Mahābhārata. 78 p.…