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D’ISTRIA, Dora —> Ghica, Elena

D’JAKONOV, Mihail Mihajlovič. St.Petersburg 13.(26.)6.1907 — Moscow 8.6.1954. Russian Historian of the Ancient World. Son of an official. Grew up in Norway. Studies ...

D’JAKONOVA, Natal’ja Vasil’evna. St.Petersburg 28.11.(11.12.)1907 — 1996. Russian Iranian scholar. Daughter of an official. Graduated 1930 from Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1946. In ...

DA MACERATA, Cassiano —> CASSIANO DA MACERATA

DAALEN, Leendert Antonius van. Scheemda 30.4.1939 — Hilversum 1.10.1993. Dutch Indologist. Studied Classical Philology at Utrecht (M.A. 1966), then Indology (M.A. 1970) under Gonda. Ph.D. 1980 with ...

DAHLKE, Paul Wilhelm Eduard. Osterode/Ostpreussen 25.1.1865 — Berlin-Frohnau 29.2.1928. German Bauddha, Physician in Berlin. Son of a civil servant, in a big and poor family. Studied medicine ...

DAHLMANN, Joseph. Köln/Koblenz 14.10.1861 — Tokyo 22.6.1928. Father. S.J. German Indologist, later in Japan. Son of a tailor, Johann Simon D., and Catharina Schulten, educated in 1873-78 ...

DALES, George Franklin, Jr. Akron, Ohio 13.8.1927 — Berkeley 18.4.1992. U.S. Archaeologist. Professor in Berkeley. Educated at University of Akron (B.A. 1953 in Classical srudies) and University ...

DALGADO, Sebastião Rodolfo. Assagão, Goa 8.5.1855 — Lisbon 4.4.1922. Monsenhor. Indo-Portuguese Indologist. Son of Ambrose Dalgado, a landowner in Bardez, and Florinda Rosa de Souza. School in ...

DALGLEISH, Andrew. 1853 — near Karakorum 6.4.1888. British (Scottish) Tradesman, Traveller and Geographer of Central Asia. “For years he journeyed for commercial purposes between Kashmir ...

DALRYMPLE, Alexander. New Hailes near Edinburgh 24.7.1737 (or 1736) — London 19.6.1808. British ...

DALRYMPLE, Alexander. New Hailes near Edinburgh 24.7.1737 (or 1736) — London 19.6.1808. British ...

DALTON, Edward Tuite (or Tuite-Dalton). England? 1815 — 30.12.1880. British Colonial Officer and Ethnologist in India. Son of music composer Edward Tuite D. (of Irish orihin, d. ...

DALTON, Ormonde Maddock. Cardiff 30.1.1866 — Holford, Somerset 1945. British Art Historian and Classical Scholar, a Specialist of Early Christian Art. Son of a lawyer, educated at ...

DAMANT, Guybon Henry. Cowes, Isle of Wight 9.5.1846 — Khorama, Nagaland 14.10.1879. British Civil Servant and Ethnologist in India (1869-79). Son of Henry James D., a lawyer, ...

DAMES, Mansel Longworth. Bath 1850 — Guildford 8.1.1922. British Civil Servant, Indologist and Historian of India. Son of Captain George Longworth Dames (of Irish background) and Caroline ...

DANDARON, Bidija Dandarovič. Kižinga, Buryatia 15.12.1914 — Vydrino, Buryatia 26.10.1974. Russian Buryat Lama, Tibetologist and Buddhist Scholar. Son of Dorji Badmaev, a Tantric practitioner. In 1921 he ...

DANDOY, Georges. Hemptinne, Namur 5.2.1882 — Calcutta 11.6.1962. S.J. Belgian Missionary-Indologist in India. Studied philosophy at Namur (1905-05) and Stonehurst Jesuit College, England (1905-07), then 1907-09 Sanskrit ...

DANGERFIELD, Frederic. 17?? — Indore 6.12.1828. British Colonial Officer in India. Entered Bombay Army in 1804. Captain 1820. Until 1823 carried geological survey of the Himalaya, then ...

DANIBEGOV, Rafail (Rap‘iel Danibegašvili). 1775 — 18??. Georgian Traveller. Son of Osefa (Joseph) D. A wealthy merchant in Tbilisi, he made two journeys to India, in 1795–98 ...

DANIELL, Thomas. Kingston upon Thames 1749 — Kensington 19.3.1840. British Landscape Painter in India. Uncle of —> William D. Studied and worked in ...

DANIELL, William. Kingston upon Thames 1769/70 — Camden Town 16.8.1837. British Painter in India. Nephew of —> Thomas ...

DANIÉLOU, Alain (nom-de-plume Shiva Sharan). Neuilly-sur-Seine (Seine) 4.10.1907 — Lonay, Switzerland 27.1.1994. French Musicologist deeply interested in India. Son of Charles D. (1878–1953), an anticlerical Breton ...

DANIELSSON, Olof August. Häradshammar, Östergötland 15.10.1852 — Uppsala 10.7.1933. Swedish Linguist. Professor in Uppsala. Son of Daniel D., a shoemaker, and Anna Brita Olofsdotter. From 1870 studied ...

DANN, George James. Oxford 1.7.1857 — 11.7.1941. British Baptist Missionary in India. Son of James Dann, a Baptist minister, and Mary Anne Ruffell. Went to India in ...

DANTINNE, Jean. 1930 — 1996. Belgian Buddhist Scholar (Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan). Probably studies under Lamotte. Professor (?) at Louvain-la-neuve (1983).

Publications: Translated and annotated: ...

DAPPER, Olfert. Amsterdam baptized 6.1.1636 — Amsterdam 29.12.1689. Dutch Physician and Geographer. From 1658 studies at Utrecht, in 1659 Med.Dr. Then living in Amsterdam, where he became ...

DARBY, Alfred. Stevenage, Hertofirdshire 16.9.1863 — 19??. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Walter D., a farmer. “Graduated from St. Augustine’s College, Canterbury, in 1889, received ...

DARMESTETER, James. Château-Salins (Meurth, Lorraine) 28.3.1849 — Maisons-Lafitte near Paris 19.10.1894. French Iranian Scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of a Jewish bookbinder, younger brother of the philologist ...

DAUMAL, René. Boulzicourt, Ardennes 16.3.1908 — Paris 21.5.1944. French Poet interested in India. Educated at Lycée de Reims and Lycée Henri-IV, studies at Sorbonne. Born in rural ...

DAVID-NÉEL, Alexandra (née Louise Eugènie Alexandrine Marie David). St.Mandé (Seine) 24.10.1868 — Digne (Basses-Alpes) 8.9.1969. French Bauddha and Traveller. The only child of Louis Pierre David, a ...

DAVIDSON, John. 28.8.1845 — 9.9.1917. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of the physician Alexander D. Educated at Winchester College, joined the army in 1863 and the ...

DAVIES, Cuthbert Collin. 16.4.1896 — 1974. British (Welsh) Historian of South Asia. Studied at University of Wales. Ph.D. Cambridge. Served as officer in North-West Frontier. In 1926-36 ...

DAVIES, John. 18?? — London 18.9.1890. Rev. British Indologist and Welsh Scholar (?). From Salford. From 1838 studies at Cambridge (St.John’s College, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845). Ordained ...

DAVIS, Edwin Bell. Lawrence, Mass. 3.6.1866 — Franklin NJ 23.7.1957. U.S. Linguist. Professor in New Brunswick NJ. Son of Bryan Bell D. and Amelia Lockwood. Graduated from ...

DAVIS, Samuel. West Indies 1760 — Croydon 16.6.1819. British Engineer and Civil Servant in India, interested in Indian Astronomy. Son of an officer, John D., lost early ...

DAVY, John. Penzance 24.5.1790 — Ambleside, Cumbria 24.1.1868. British Physician and Chemist in ...

DAWSON, James. Dunblane, Pertshire 29.9.1832 — 1885. Rev. British Missionary in India. Ordained 1864 in Edinburgh and left ...

DAY, Charles Russell. Eton 1860 — South Africa 18.2.1900. British Officer. Son of ...

DAZA DE CAMPOS, Mario. Madrid 7.7.1863 — 1943. Spanish Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Studies i.al. under Garcia Ayuso. Both Ph.D. and Lic. of Civil and Canonic ...

DE COU, Herbert Fletcher. Good Harbor, Mich. 1868 — Cyrene (Libya) 11.3.1911. U.S. Classical Scholar. A.M. 1890 University of Michigan, in 1892-93 Instructor of Greek and Sanskrit ...

DE FOREST (DeForest), Lockwood. New York City 23.6.1850 — Santa Barbara, Cal. 3.4.1932. U.S. Artist and Designer interested in Indian and Tibetan Art. Grew up in a ...

DE GUBERNATIS, Angelo. Torino 7.4.1840 — Rome 26.12.1913. Count. Italian Indologist. Professor in Florence and Rome. Born in a noble family; his brother was the diplomat and ...

DE LORENZO, Giuseppe Giovanni Angelo. Lagonegro, Potenza 24.4.1871 — Naples 27.6.1957. Italian Scientist and Bauddha. Professor of Geology in Naples. Born in Southern Italy, son of Lorenzo ...

DE MAGISTRIS, Hyacinthus (Giaccinto). near Cremona 1605 — Goa 11.11.1668. S.J. Pater. Italian Missionary in India. Entered S.J. ...

DE STEFANI, Eduardo Luigi. Naples 4.6.1869 — Rome 10.9.1921 (hardly 1913?). Italian Linguist (Greek Scholar) interested in Indology. Professor in Rome. After studies in Florence under Pavolini ...

DE VINCENTIIS, Gherardo. 1845 — 1907. Italian Iranian (Persian) Scholar, also interested in Sanskrit and China. Studies at Naples under Lignana. Professor of Persian at Regio Istituto ...

DE VINCENTIS, Gherardo. 1845 — 19??. Italian Iranian (Persian) Scholar, also interested in Sanskrit. Professor of Persian at Regio Istituto Orientale di Napoli: ...

DE’ NOBILI DE MONTEPULCIANO, Roberto (Robertus de Nobilibus, Tattuvapodagar ). Montepulciano near Siena 1577 — Mailapur (Chennai) 16.1.1656. S.J. Italian Missionary in South India. Born of a ...

DEASY, Henry Hugh Peter. Dublin 29.6.1866 — Carrigahorig, Co. Tipperary 24.1.1947. British (Irish) Traveller in Central Asia. Captain. “Son of Right Hon. Richard Deasy, Lord Justice of ...

DEBRUNNER-RUDIN, Johann Albert. Basel 8.2.1884 — Bern 2.2.1958. Swiss Linguist. Professor in Bern and Jena. Son of Albert D., a potter, and Elisabeth Schaub, educated in Basel. ...

DECOURDEMANCHE, Jean-Adolphe. Paris 24.3.1844 — Paris 15.10.1916. French Pseudohistorian and Turkish Translator. No details of his life available.

DEECKE, Ernst Georg Wilhelm. Lübeck 1.4.1831 — Strassburg 2.1.1897. German Linguist, Founder of Etruscology. Son of Konrektor Ernst D. (1805–1862) and Christine Müller (1805–1838). Gymnasium in Lübeck, ...

DEGUIGNES, J. —> GUIGNES, J. de

DEHON, Paul. Maurage, Hainaut 29.8.1856 — Rajhara, Daltonganj 27.6.1905. Rev

DEKKER, Gerbrand Jan. Westzaan 7.10.1882 — 1964. Dutch Orientalist and Scholar of Religion in Switzerland. Son of Klaas D. and Clazina Fortanier. Private scholar living near Zürich.

DELAMAINE, James. 17?? — Cape of Good Hope 1829?. British Colonial Officer. Major in Bengal Army (1827), then ...

DELBRÜCK, Berthold Gustav Gottlieb. Putbus, Rügen 26.7.1842 — Jena 3.1.1922. German Indologist and IE Scholar. Professor in Jena. Son of a judge, Ernst Friedrich Felix D., in ...

DELBRÜCK, Richard. Jena 14.7.1875 — Bonn 22.8.1957. German Archaeologist and Classical Scholar. Son of —> Berthold D. Ph.D. ...

DELEU, Jozef Albert Cornelius. Alveringen 17.11.1925 — Ghent 15.3.1994. Belgian Indologist. Educated at Ghent (Ph.D. 1957 under Scharpé) and Hamburg (Schubring and Alsdorf). In 1949-58 teacher (leraar ...

DELITZSCH, Friedrich Conrad Gerhard. Erlangen 3.9.1850 — Langenschwalbach (now Bad Schwalbach) 19.12.1922. German Assyriologist, started with Sanskrit. Professor in Leipzig, Breslau and Berlin. Son of the famous ...

DELIUS, Nikolaus. Bremen 19.9.1813 — Bonn 18.11.1888. German Linguist. Professor of English in Bonn. Son of a merchant, Everhard D. and Magdalena Gloystein, educated at Gymnasium in ...

DELLA PENNA, Orazio —> ORAZIO DELLA PENNA DI BILLI, Francesc

DELLA TOMBA, Marco —> MARCO DELLA TOMBA

DELLA VALLE, Pietro. Rome 11.4.1586 — Rome 21.4. or 11.4.1652. Italian (Roman) Traveller in Iran and India. Born in aristocratic family, had good education. In his youth ...

DELMERICK, James George. 1828/29 (hardly 1831) — 1915. British Civil Servant in India. In 1877 Assistant Commissioner in ...

DÉMIÉVILLE, Paul. Lausanne 13.9.1894 — Paris 23.3.1979. French (born Swiss) Sinologist and Buddhist scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of Paul D. (1855–1947, Professor of Medicine at Lausanne) ...

DEMING, Wilbur Stone. Massachusetts 13.3. or 24.10.1889 — Bridgeport Conn. 31.10.1971. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India. Ph.D. Member ...

DENECKE, Walter. 18?? — 19??. German Indologist. Apparently student of Jacobi and Schubring. Ph.D. Hamburg 1923.

Publications: diss. Digambara-Texte. Eine Darstellung ihrer Sprache und ihres Inhalts. MS. of 95 p. Hamburg 1923.

– “Mitteilungen über Digambara-Texte”, Festgabe ...

DENIS, Eugène. Corps-Nuds, Bretagne 2.2.1921 — Bangkok 11.12.1986. S.J. French Missionary and Pāli Scholar in Thailand. After seminary in Rennes became Jesuit novice in Laval. In 1948 ...

DEPREE, George Charles. 18?? — 1???. British Officer in India. Joined Bengal Artillery in 1851. As Captain in ...

DEROMPS, Mathilde. 1892 — 19??. Belgian Physician. In 1911-14 studied under J. Bloch ...

DERVICHIAN, Serope (Seraphin Dervischjan). 1846 — 1899. Armenian Linguist. Mekhitarist, studied at Vienna, mainly Sanskrit and Pehlevi. Hübschmann wrote very negative review of his book (ZDMG 30, ...

DESGODINS, Auguste. Manheulles 16.10.1826 — Padang (Pedong) near Darjeeling 14.3.1913. Father. French Missionary and Tibetan Scholar. Son of Charles Michel François D. and Marie Joséphine de Roton. ...

DESGRANGES, Jean-François (Pouillon-Desgranges). Bonneval (Eure-et-Loir) 30.9.1765 — Paris 8.11.1848 (or 1851). French Former Priest and Teacher, the author of the first French Sanskrit grammar. Because of missing ...

DESHAUTESRAYES —> LE ROUX DESHAUTESRAYES.

DESIDERI, Ippolito. Pistoia 21.12.1684 — Rome 14.8.1733. S.J. Italian Missionary and a Pioneer of Tibetology, in Tibet in 1715-21, in India 1714-15, 1721-27, last years in Rome. ...

DESMET (DeSmet), R. V. —> SMET, R. V. de

DESVAULX, Nicolas-Jacques, baron d’Oinville. Chandernagor 28.3.1745 — Paris 9.7.1817. French Officer in India. Son of an officer working in India for the French Company, grew up in ...

DEUSSEN, Paul Jakob. Oberdreis/Westerwald, Kr. Neuwied 7.1.1845 — Kiel 6.7.1919. German Indologist and Philosopher. Professor in Kiel. Son of Adam D., a minister, and Jakobine Ingelbach. Attended ...

DEVÈZE, Gérard. Nîmes 5.8.1856 — 19??. French Journalist (?) interested in Sanskrit, Tamil and Urdū. At É.L.O.V. student of Vinson, diplome of Tamil (1885) and of Hindūstānī ...

DEVOTO, Giacomo. Genua 19.7.1897 — Florence 25.12.1974. Italian Linguist (Italic and IE). Educated in Milano, from 1915 studies at Pavia. In 1916 to army, returned to the ...

DEWHURST, Robert Paget. Clitheroe, Lancashire 21.7.1869 — 27.12.1935. British Civil Servant and Indologist in India. Son of James Dewhurst & Frances Elizabeth. Educated at Clitheroe Grammar School ...

DEYDIER, Henri. 1922 — near Luang Prabang 4.12.1954. French Archaeologist and Art Historian. During WW II active in the Resistance. Studies of Indology (under Foucher) and South-East ...

DIACK, Alexander Henderson. 13.2.1862 — 7.7.1929. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Studies at Aberdeen. Joined I.C.S. in 1879, additional studies at Cambridge (King’s College, 1879-81). Served ...

DIAZ, Manuel. Alpaham (Aspalham or Alpahão), Porto Alegre 1592 — Morang 3.11.1629. S.J. Portuguese Missionary in India and Tibet. Nephew of another Jesuit of the same name. ...

DIBBEN, Cecilia J. 18?? — 19??. Britishwoman, apparently interested in Pāli. Her sister is perhaps Miss A. M. Dibben, who compiled the index to the ...

DICKSON, John Frederick. 17.9.1835 — London 21.12.1891. Sir. British Civil Servant and Pāli Scholar in Ceylon. Son of Robert D., a physician. Educated in Westminster and studied ...

DIEHL, Carl Gustav Ruben. Malmö 21.9.1906 — Lund 1/2.5.1995. Swedish Lutheran Missionary, Bishop, and Scholar of South Indian Religion. Son of Anders Diehl, a house manager, and ...

DIETZ, Friedrich Reinhold. Königsberg 12.1.1805 — Königsberg 5.6.1836. German Physician and Philologist (Historian of Medicine). Sschool and studies of medicine and philology at Königsberg, Dr. med. there ...

DIEZ, Ernst. Lölling, Kärnten 27.7.1878 — Vienna 8.7.1962. Austrian Art Historian. Studies at Vienna under Strzygowski. Ph.D. 1903 with diss. on late classic / early Christian art. ...

DILGER, Wilhelm. Winterbach, Württenberg 1855 — 1920. Rev. German Missionary of Basel Mission in Kerala. Worked in Kerala in 1880-1900 and 1906-07. In 1910 said to belong ...

DILLMANN, Christian Friedrich August. Illingen bei Maulbronn 25.4.1823 — Berlin 4.7.1894. German Semitic Scholar, famous Pioneer of Ethiopian Studies. Professor in Berlin. Son of Elias D., a ...

DILLON, Emile Joseph . Dublin 21.3.1855 (or 1854?) — ...

DILLON, Myles. Dublin 11.4.1900 — Dublin 18.6.1972. Irish Indologist and Linguist, partly in the U.S.A. Professor ...

DIMES, Eileen M. Miss. 19?? — ????. British Librarian. Graduated in English 1932 Uni­versity of London and in Sanskrit 1958 ibid. From 1945 ...

DOBBIE, Robert Sheddon. 1821 — India 1868. British Officer in India. Son of William Hugh D. and Anna ...

DODERET, William. Madras 30.9.1862 — 19??. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Frederick D. Educated in London and at Balliol ...

DODWELL, Henry Herbert. 1879 — Dover 13.6.1946. British Historian. Educated in Thame, studies at St.John’s (Oxford), graduated 1908 ...

FRANÇOIS-MARIE DE TOURS (Francesco Maria Da Tours, Franciscus M. Turonensis). 16?? — Patna ?.5.1709. Father. DONATI, Girolamo

DONNER, Otto. Kokkola 15.12.1835 — Helsinki 17.9.1909. Finnish Indologist and Finno-Ugrian Linguist. Professor in Helsinki. Son of Andreas D., a wealthy businessman and shipowner in Kokkola in ...

DOPPING-HEPENSTAL, Maxwell Edward. Ireland or Canada (see under sources) 7.3.1872 — Duncan, British Columbia 2.8.1965. British (Irish) Colonial Officer ...

DORN, Johann Albrecht Bernhard (Boris Andreevič) von. Scheuerfeld bei Koburg 11.5.1805 — St.Petersburg 19.5.(31.5.)1881. German Orientalist (Iranian Scholar) in Russia. Son of Heinrich Wilhelm D., a minister, ...

DOROW, Wilhelm. Königsberg 22.3.1790 — Halle 16.12.1846. German Antiquarian Scholar. A precursor of Indian art history who, according to Mode, did not share the common contempt of ...

DOUGLAS, Gordon (Bhikkhu Asoka). 18?? — April 1900 (P.) or 1905. British Bauddha. He was claimed to be the very first British who was ever (known to ...

DOUGLAS, James. 4.6.1826 — 3.8.1904. British (Scottish) Banker in India, interested in History. Son of William Douglas, a solicitor, “educated at Sorbie Parish School and privately in ...

DOW, Alexander. Crieff, Perthshire 1735/36 — Bhagalpur 31.7.1779. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer, Historian and Persian Scholar in India. Son of a customs officer. He had mercantile education, ...

DOWNES, Edmund. Northampton (?) 1844 — Eastbourne 11.12.1911. Rev. British Officer turned Missionary. Son of Rev. John D. Educated at Radley College and Woolwich. Served as lieutenant ...

DOWNING, Clement. 16?? — 17??. British Engineer in India 1715-23. In Mughal service. According to his title page he was “Midshipman on board ...

DOWSON, John. Uxbridge 1820 — 23.8.1881. British Indologist. Professor in Sandhurst. In the age of 16 came to London to assist ...

DRAKE, John. 18?? — 19??. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in India. Studies at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. M.A. ...

DRESDEN, Mark Jan. Amsterdam 26.4.1911 — Philadelphia 16.8.1986. Dutch Indologist and Iranian scholar in the U.S.A. Citizen of the U.S.A., Professor in Philadelphia. Son of the composer ...

DREW, William Hoyles. Plymouth 21.12.1805 — Pulicat May 1856. Rev. British Missionary in South India. Son of William Dr., a merchant, who died when he was three. ...

DRIBERG, John G. 17?? — before 1859. Rev. Missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. ...

DRIVER, W. H. P. 18?? — 1???. Civilian, probably Civil Servant, interested in Ethnology and Archaeology. An emigration ...

DROESE, Ernest (Ernst Dröse). Thorn (now Torun in Poland) 12.7.1817 — Landour, Uttarkhand 19.4.1891. Rev. German Missionary in ...

DROUIN, Edmond (Edme Alphonse). Bruxelles 27.6.1837 (or 1838) — Paris 28.1.1904. Belgian Lawyer and Numismatician in Paris. Son of Jacques Dr. and Sidonie Renard. Studied law in ...

DRUMMOND, John Graham. 28.10.1884 — 1958. British Civil Servant in India. Son of James Dr. and Williamina Graham. Studies at Christ’s College, Cambridge (B.A. 1906). In 1906-36 ...

DRUMMOND, Robert. Keltie 27.3.1775 — at sea ?.3.1809. Sir, fifth “Laird of Keltie”. British (Scottish) Surgeon in E.I.C.’s ...

DRURY, Heber. Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex 4.3.1819 (22.5. is probably the date of baptism) — Holton, Mayfield 30.10.1905. British Colonial ...

DU JARRIC, Pierre. Toulouse 2.3.1566 — Saintes 1617. S.J. French Historian of Mission. Joined Jesuits in 1582. When ...

DUBEUX, J. Louis. Lisbon, Portugal 2.11.1798 — Paris 4.10.1863. French Oriental Scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of a clerk of the French embassy in Lisbon, in 1808 ...

DUBOIS, Jean-Antoine. S.-Remèze/Ardèche bapt. 10.1.1766 — Paris 17.2.1848. Abbé. French Missionary and Pioneer of Indology in South India. Educated at College de Bourg–Saint-Andéol and the seminary of ...

DUFF (Mrs. Rickmers), Christian Mabel. Calcutta 7.12.1866 — Munich 24.12. 1939. British (Scottish) Traveller and Indologist. Daughter of William Pirie Duff, a merchant in Calcutta, granddaughter of ...

DUKA, Theodor (Tivadar Duka). Dukafalva (now Dukovce in Slovakia) 22.6.1825 — Bournemouth 5.5.1908. Hungarian Physician in India and the U.K. Son of Francis de D., a landowner, ...

DUMÉZIL, Georges Edmond Raoul. Paris 4.3.1898 — Paris 11.10.1986. French Linguist. Professor in Paris. Son of Jean Anatole D. (1857–1929), general of artillery, and Marguérite Dutier (1860–1945), ...

DUMONT, Louis Charles Jean. Thessaloniki 1911 — Paris 19.11.1998. French Sociologist and Indologist. Son of a railway engineer, lost early his father. After restless youth (he left ...

DUMONT, Paul-Émile. Bruxelles 27.8.1879 — Baltimore 8.12.1968. Belgian Indologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Baltimore. Son ...

DUNCAN, Jonathan. Wardhouse, Forfarshire 15.5.1756 — Bombay 11.8.1811. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Alexander D., one ...

DUNCAN, Marion Herbert. Celina, co. Mercer, Ohio 17.1.1896 — Boonsboro, co. Washington, Maryland ?.1.1977. U.S. Missionary ...

DUNCKER, Max(imilian) Wolfgang. Berlin 15.12.1811 — Ansbach 21.7.1886. German Historian and Politician. Son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm D., ...

DUNIN BORKOWSKI, A. —> BORKOWSKI, Aleksander Dunin

DÜNTZER, Johann Heinrich Joseph. Köln 12.7.1813 — Köln 16.12.1901. German Schoolteacher and Philologist. After Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Köln studied from 1830 at Bonn and from 1835 at Berlin ...

DUPEUTY-TRAHON, Jean-Ferdinand. Claire-Fontaine (Seine-et-Oise) 30.3.1794 — 1836. French Indologist. Son of an officer, who had served in India ...

DUPEYTY-TRAHON, Jean-Ferdinand. Claire-Fontaine (Seine-et-Oise) 30.3.1794 — 1836. French Indologist. Son of an officer, who had served in India under Haidar ‘Ali, became interested ...

DUPONT-SOMMER, André. Marnes-la-Coquette 23.12.1900 — Paris 14.5.1983. French Epigraphist and Semitic Scholar, a Specialist of Aramaic. Studied philology and theology in Paris, licence ...

DUPONT, Pierre. Paris 3.12.1908 — Bangkok 16.10.1955. French Archaeologist of South-East Asia (especially Cambodia). Professor in Paris. Studies ...

DUPREE, Louis Benjamin. Greenville NC 23.8.1925 — Durham NC 21.3.1989. U.S. Archaeologist and Anthropologist, Specialist of Afghanistan. Son of Chauncey Leary D. and Luna ...

DUPUIS, Louis Savinien. Sens, Yonne (Bourgogne) 18.8.1806 — Pondichéry 4.6.1874. French Missionary and Tamil Scholar in India. Son ...

DURING CASPERS, Elisabeth (Inez) Christina Louisa. Amsterdam 1.9.1934 — Leiden 31.1.1996. Dutch Archaeologist of South Asia, Mesopotamia and Harappa Culture. Daughter of Engelbert Pieter DC and Elisabeth ...

DUROISELLE, Charles. 1871 — 1951. French Archaeologist and Pāli Scholar in Burma. In 1909 Honorary Keeper ...

DURR, Jacques Alfred. 1891 — 1982. French (or Swiss?) Indologist and Tibetologist. In Paris (1948), later ...

DURSCH, Johann Georg Martin. Deggingen (Württ.) 11.11.1800 — Rottweil 21.2.1881. German Catholic Theologian interested in Sanskrit. Studies at Tübingen, ...

DUTENS, Alfred. 13.3.1841 — 8.7.1917. French Linguist. Son of Louis Dutens and Marie Amélie Hecquet d’Orval. Ph.D. 1883 ...

DUTOIT, Julius Franz Gustav. Darmstadt 13.3.1872 — München 17.6.1958. German Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Son of a ...

DUTREUIL DE RHINS, Jules-Léon. Saint-Étienne 2.1.1846 ...

DUVAU, Louis. Saumur 12.7.1864 — Angers 14.7.1903. French IE Linguist. After school in Orléans studied in Paris (under ...

DYMŠIC, Zalman Movševič. Janovič near Vitebsk 25.5.1921 — Moscow 6.1.1990. Russian Indologist, specialist of ...

DYNOWSKA, Wanda (Umādevī). St.Petersburg 30.6.1888 — Mysore 20.3.1971. Polish Theosophist in ...