KENNET, Charles Egbert. 8.2.1826 (ot 21.9.) — 28.11.1884. Rev. Anglo-Indian Priest. Son of Charles Kennet (1787–1851), a clerk in Madras Treasury Office, and Charlotte Temasfield (1803–1841), a Roman Catholic. After studies at Bishop’s College in Calcutta ordained deacon 1851, priest 1853. Worked as missionary in Mudalur and 1857-65 in Christianagram…
KAMENSKY, Anna (Anna Alekseevna Kamenskaja). Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg 25.8.1867 — 23.6.1952. Russian Theosophist, emigrated to Switzerland. Born in Russia in a noble family, lost early her father and grew up in southern Germany and from 1875-82 in Geneva, Switzerland. Back in Russia studies at Higher Women College in St.Petersburg,…
JONES, John Peter. Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales 4.9.1847 — Hartford, Conn. 3.10.1916. Rev. U.S. (of Welsh origin) Missionary in South India. Son of Peter Jones (1808–1865?), a coal miner, and Sarah Williams (1810–1865?). Came to the U.S.A. in 1866, graduated from Western Reserve College (later University) in Ohio, then studies at…
JACOLLIOT, Louis. Charolles (Saône-et-Loire) 31.10.1837 — Saint-Thibaut-des-Vignes (Seine-et-Maine) 30.10.1890. French Colonial Lawyer and Enthusiast of Indian Thought. Advocate, in 1865-69 judge in Tahiti and India (Chandernagar). In 1887-90 mayor of Saint-Thibaut-des-Vignes. Jacolliot is known of his curious ideas. Thus he claimed that the Bible and Christianity originated in India and…
HOFFMANN, Paul Theodor. Putlitz, Kr. Prignitz, Brandenburg 26.1.1891 — Hamburg 5.7.1952. German Student of Indology, then Publisher, Archivist and Theatre Scholar. Studies at Munich, Grenoble, Berlin and Tübingen (Garbe). Ph.D. 1915 Tübingen. In 1918-21 worked as editor and theatre critic for Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 1921-26 for Hamburger Anzeiger. In 1926-33…
HETÉNYI-HEIDELBERG, Ernő (Ernest H., Láma Dharmakírti Padmavadzsra). Budapest 13.2.1912 — Budapest 17.9.1999. Hungarian Bauddha and Tibetologist. Son of the operetta composer Albert Hetényi-Heidelberg (1875–1951) and Erzsébet Brunner. Dr.iuris. He became interested in Buddhism, especially Lama Anagarika Govinda (whom he met in 1836 in Italy), and in 1951 founded the Buddhist…
HARRIS, William Henry. Wann, Oklahoma 28.6.1922 — Carbondale, Illinois 28.10.1966. U.S. Scholar of Religion and Philosophy. Son of Elmer Lawley Harris (1878–1954) and Mary Irene Phelps. Studies at Bethany Nazarene College (B.A.), then Catholic theology and philosophy at Boston University (B.Theol., Ph.D.). In 1948-56 taught at University of Arkansas. In…
GOLDSACK, William. Glen Osmond, South Australia 29.11.1871 — 26.6.1957. Rev. Australian Baptist Missionary in India. Son of Mark Goldsack (1846–1914) and Mary Dalgleish Ferguson. Worked in eastern Bengal (now Bangladesh) from 1899, stationed at Pabna. In 1917-18 in Syria and Egypt, six months each, now learned Arabic. Retired in 1923 because…
FUCHS, Stephen. Bruck an der Mur 30.4.1908 — St.Gabriel, Mödling 17.1.2000. S.V.D. Austrian Missionary and Anthropologist in India. Grew up in Graz, in 1922-27 student at S.V.D.’s mission high school in St. Rupert’s in Bischofshofen. Joined the Society of Divine Word in 1927 and studied theology at St.Augustine near Bonn…
FINEGAN, Jack. Des Moines, Iowa 11.7.1908 — Oakland, Calif. 15.7.2000. U.S. Archaeologist and Scholar of the Bible and Religion. Studied at Drake University (B.A. 1928, M.A. 1929, B.D. 1930) and Colgate Rochester Divinity School (B.D. 1931, M.Th. 1932). Professor at Iowa State University in Ames, then Professor of New Testament…