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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. 30.4.1939 — 1.10.1993. Dutch Indologist. Studied Classical Philology at ...

DAHLKE, Paul Wilhelm Eduard. Osterode/Ostpreussen 25.1.1865 — Berlin-Frohnau 29.2.1928. German Bauddha, a Physician in Berlin. Son of a gendarme, in a ...

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

DALES, George Franklin, Jr. Akron, Ohio 13.8.1927 — Berkeley 18.4.1992. U.S. Archaeologist. Professor ...

DALGADO, Sebastião Rodolfo. Assagão, Goa 8.5.1855 — 4.4.1922. Monsenhor. Indo-Portuguese Indologist. Son of Ambrose Dalgado, a landowner with land in Bardez, ...

DALGLEISH, Andrew. 1853 — near Karakorum 1888. British (Scots) Tradesman, Traveller and Geographer of Central Asia. “For years he journeyed for ...

DALTON, Edward Tuite (or Tuite-Dalton). 1815 — 30.12.1880. British (Irish) Colonial Officer and Ethnologist in India. Son of Edward Tuite D. and Olivia ...

DALTON, Ormonde Maddock. Cardiff 30.1.1866 — 1945. British Art Historian and Anthropologist, a Specialist of Early Christian Art. Son of a lawyer, educated ...

DAMANT, Guybon Henry. Cowes, Isle of Whight 9.5.1846 — Khorama, Nagaland 14.10. 1879. British Civil Servant and Ethnologist in India (1869-79). Son of ...

DAMES, Mansel Longworth. Bath 1850 — 1922. British Civil Servant, Indologist and Historian of India. Son of George Longworth ...

DANDARON, Bidiya Dandarovič. Kižinga 15.12.1914 — 26.10.1974. Russian Buriat Lama and Buddhist Scholar. In 1921 declared the heir of Lobsang Samdan and in ...

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 D. After his father’s, an ...

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 ...

DANIELSSON, Olof August. Häradshammar, Östergötland 15.10.1852 — Uppsala 10.7.1933. Swedish Linguist. Professor in Uppsala. Son of a shoemaker. From 1870 studied ...

DANTINNE, Jean. 19?? — 199?. Belgian Indologist. Professor (?) at Louvain-la-neuve (1983).

Publications: translated ...

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

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 ...

DAUMAL, René. Boulzicourt, Ardennes 16.3.1908 — Paris 21.5.1944. French Poet interested in India. Born in rural milieu he became a socialist and active ...

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

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 ...

DAVIES, Cuthbert Collin. 1896 — 1974. British (Welsh) Historian of South Asia. Studied at University of Wales. Ph.D. Cambridge. ...

DAVIES, John. 18?? — 1890. Rev. British Indologist and Welsh Scholar (?). M.A. Cambridge. Rector of Walsoken, Norfolk in 1857-71, then ...

DAVIS, Edwin Bell. Lawrence, Mass. 3.6.1866 — 195?/6? . U.S. Linguist. Professor in New Brunswick, N.J. Graduated from Dartmouth College (B.Litt. ...

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

DAZA DE CÁMPOS, Mario. Madrid 7.7.1863 — 1943. Spanish Classical Scholar interested in Sanskrit. Ord. Professor of Sanskrit at Madrid University ...

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 there, again ...

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

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

DE MAGISTRIS, Hyacinthus (Giacomo). near Cremona 1605 — Goa 11.11.1668. S.J. Italian Missionary in India. Entered S.J. in 1626. After 7 years studies ...

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

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 [‑pōtakarDEASY, Henry Hugh Peter

DEASY, Henry Hugh Peter. Dublin 1856 — ?.?.1947. British (Irish) Traveller in Central Asia. Captain. “Son of Right Hon. Richard Deasy, Lord Justice ...

DEBRUNNER-RUDIN, Johann Albert. Basel 8.2.1884 ...

DEECKE, Ernst Georg Wilhelm. Lübeck 1.4.1831 — Strassburg 2.1.1897. German Linguist, Founder of Etruscology. Son of Konrektor Ernst D. ...

DEFOREST, Lockwood. New York City 23.6.1850 — Santa Barbara, Cal. 3.4.1932. U.S. Artist interested in Indian and ...

DEKKER, Gerbrand Jan. 1882 — 1964. Dutch Orientalist and Scholar of Religion in Switzerland. Private scholar living near Zürich.

DELAMAINE, James. 17?? — Cape of Good Hope 1829?. British Colonial Officer. Major in Bengal Army (1827), the Lieutenant-Colonel and Political Agent st ...

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

DELBRÜCK, Richard. Jena 14.7.1875 — Bonn 22.8.1957. German Archaeologist and Classical Scholar. Son of —> Berthold D. Ph.D. 1899 Bonn. PD 1903, Professor ...

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 ...

DELITZSCH, Friedrich. Erlangen 3.9.1850 — 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, educated at Gymnasium ...

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. In his youth served as a ...

DELMERICK, James George. 1828/31 — 1915. Britishman, in India.

Publications: Wrote for ...

DÉMIÉVILLE, Paul. Lausanne 13.9.1894 — Paris 3.3.1979. French (born Swiss) Sinologist and Buddhist scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of Paul D. ...

DEMING, Wilbur Stone. Massachusetts 24.10.1889 — Bridgeport Conn. 31.10.1971. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India. Ph.D. Member of American Maratha Mission.

Publications: Rāmdās and the Rāmdāsīs. 15+223 p. The Religious Life of India. Calcutta & L. 1928 ...

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 ...

DESGODINS, Auguste. Manheulles 16.10.1826 — Padang near Darjeeling 14.3.1913. Father. French Missionary and Tibetan Scholar. Studied theology in Verdun and Saint-Sulpice, ...

DESGRANGES, ?. 17?? — 18??. French Teacher (according to others, an officer) interested in Sanskrit, author of the first French Sanskrit ...

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 ...

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

DESVAULX, Nicolas-Jacques, baron d’Oinville. Chandernagor 1745 — Paris 1817. Son of a French merchant working in India for the French Company, grew up ...

DEUSSEN, Paul Jakob. Oberdreis/Westerwald (Kr. Neuwied) 7.1.1845 — Kiel 6.7.1919. German Indologist. Professor in Kiel. Son of a minister, attended Gymnasium ...

DEVÈZE, Gérard. 18?? — 19??. French Tamil (and Sanskrit?) Scholar. Diplome of É.P.H.É. Editor of Magasin pittoresque

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

DEWHURST, Robert Paget. Clitheroe, Lanc. 21.7.1869 — 27.12.1935. British Civil Servant and Indologist ...

DEYDIER, Henri. 1922 — near Luang Prabang 4.12.1954. French Archaeologist and Art Historian. Studies of Indology (under Foucher) and South-East and ...

DIAZ, Manuel. Alpaham (Aspalham or Alpahão), Porto Alegre 1592 — Morang 3.9.1629. S.J. Portuguese Missionary in India and Tibet. Nephew of another Jesuit ...

DIBBEN, Cecilia. 18?? — 19??. Britishwoman, apparently interested in Pāli.

Publications: assisted C. A. F. Rhys Davids in the edition of Yamaka. 1-2. L. 1911-13.

Sources: Not in Br. Biogr. Arch. ...

DICKSON, John Frederick. 17.9.1835 — London 21.12.1891. Sir. British Colonial Civil Servant and Pāli Scholar in Ceylon. Educated in Westminster and ...

DIEHL, Carl Gustav Ruben. Malmö 21.9.1906 — Lund 1.5.1995. Swedish Lutheran Missionary, Bishop, and Scholar of South Indian Religion. Son of ...

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

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

DILLMANN, Christian Friedrich August. Illingen bei Maulbronn 25.4.1823 — Berlin 4.7.1894. German Semitic Scholar, famous Pioneer of Ethiopian Studies. ...

DILLON, Emile Joseph . Dublin 21.3.1855 — Barcelona 9.6.1933. British Linguist and Journalist. Son of ...

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

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

DODWELL, Henry Herbert. 1879 — Dover 13.6.1946. British Historian. Studies at St.John’s (Oxford), graduated 1908 and joined Indian Educational Service, retired 1922. In ...

DOMENICO DA FANO (Dominicus a Fano). 1674 — 1728. Italian Capuchin Missionary, in Tibet in 1706-07 and 1716-25. He was the Head of ...

DONATI, Girolamo. Perugia 1857 — 19??. Italian Indologist. Libero docente di sanscrito at R. Istituto di Studi superiori di Firenze, from ...

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

DORN, Johann Albrecht Bernhard (Boris Andreevič) von. Schenerfeld bei Koburg 11.5.1805 — St.Petersburg 19.5.(31.5.)1881. German Orientalist (Iranian Scholar) in ...

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

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

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

DOW, Alexander. Perthshire 1735/36 — Bhagalpur 31.7.1779. British (Scots) Colonial Officer, Historian and Persian Scholar in India. Had mercantile education, but had to ...

DOWNES, Edmund. 18?? — 1???. British Officer turned Missionary. Served as lieutenant, then left army and worked for Church Missionary Society in Peshawar. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

DROUIN, Édmond. Paris (?) 1838 — Paris 28.1.1904. French Numismatician. Studied law in Paris from 1855, became a lawyer and worked ...

DRUMMOND, John Graham. 28.10.1884 — 1958. British Civil Servant in India. Son of James Dr. and Williamina Graham. In 1906-36 in I.C.S. in ...

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 ...

DUBOIS, Jean-Antoine. S.-Remèze/Ardèche 10.1.1766 — Paris 17.2.1848. Abbé. French Missionary and Pioneer of ...

DUFF (Mrs. Rickmers), Christian Mabel. Calcutta 7.12.1866 — Munich 24.12. 1939. British Traveller ...

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

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 ...

DUMONT, Louis Charles Jean. Thessaloniki 1911 — 19.11.1998. French Sociologist and Indologist. Son of an engineer, lost early his father. Studied ...

DUMONT, Paul-Emile. Bruxelles 27.8.1879 — Baltimore 8.12.1968. Belgian Indologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Baltimore. Son of Constant Louis Michel D., ...

DUNCAN, Jonathan. Wardhouse, Forfarshire 15.5.1756 — Bombay 11.8.1811. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Alexander D. Accepted to the E.I.C.’s civil service ...

DUNCKER, Max(imilian) Wolfgang. Berlin 15.12.1811 — Ansbach 21.7.1886. German Historian and Politician. Studies at Berlin under Hegel et al. PD 1839 and ao. ...

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 ...

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 1908 — Bangkok 16.10.1955. French Archaeologist of South-East Asia (especially Cambodia). Professor in Paris. Studies of Indology, South-East Asian studies, ...

DUPREE, Louis Benjamin. Greenville NC 23.8.1925 — 21.3.1989. U.S. Archaeologist. In wartime served in U.S. Merchant Marine in Philippines, then studied Asian archaeology ...

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

DURING CASPERS, Elisabeth (Inez) Christina Louisa. Amsterdam 1.9.1934 — 31.1.1996. Dutch Archaeologist of ...

DUROISELLE, Charles. 1871 — 1950/1. French Archaeologist and Pāli Scholar in Burma. In 1909 Honorary Keeper of MSS. in Bernard Free ...

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

Publications

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. Ph.D. 1883 Paris. According to Meillet his dissertation was good, but attracted so little attention that ...

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

DUTREUIL DE RHINS, Jules-Léon. Saint-Étienne ?.1.1846 — Tong-mbon-ndo near Sinang Fu 5.6.1894. French ...

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

DYMŠIČ, Zalman Movševič. v Janeviči 25.5.1921 — 6.1.1990. Russian Indologist, specialist of Hindi/Urdu. Born in Byelorussia, son of official. In 1940-46 in Red Army, the ...

DYNOWSKA, Wanda (Umādevī). St.Petersburg 30.6.1888 — Bangalore 20.3.1971. Polish Theosophist in India. Born in Russia in a family of Polish nobility, studied in ...