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EARDLEY-WILMOT, Henry. Kenilworth 3.3.1854 — Richmond 18.2.1933. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Rev. Edward Revel E.-W. ...

EASTMAN, Alvan Clark. München 10.1.1894 — 9.9.1959. U.S. Art Historian. Son of Charles Rochester E. and Caroline A. ...

EASTON, Morton William. Hartford, Conn. 18.8.1841 — Mount Gretna, Pa. 21.8.1917. U.S. Linguist. Professor in Philadelphia. Son of ...

EASTWICK, Edward Backhouse. Warfield, Berkshire 13.3.1814 — Ventnor, Isle of Wight 16.7.1883. British Colonial Officer, Diplomat, ...

EATON, Adoniram Judson. Annapolis, Nova Scotia 16.10.1850 — Knowlton, Quebec 1928. Canadian Indologist and Classical Scholar. Son of Thomas Woodworth E. ...

EBEL, Hermann Wilhelm. Berlin 10.5.1820 — Misdroy (now Międzyzdroje in Poland) ...

ECHAURI MARTÍNEZ, Eustaquio. Azcona, Navarra 20.9.1873 — Madrid 8.1.1953. Spanish Classical Philologist ...

ECKE, Emil-Wilhelm-Gustav. Bonn 13.6.1896 — Honolulu 18.12.1971. German Art Historian in China and U.S.A. Son ...

ECKSTEIN, Ferdinand d’. Copenhagen 1.9.1790 — Paris 22. or 25.11.1862 (when 71). Baron. French Historian of Danish/German Origin. ...

EDELBERG, Johan Lorentz Lennart Fraas. Copenhagen 19.5.1915 — Ribe 11.11.1981. ...

EDGAR, James Huston. Harr, Victoria 1872 — 1936. Rev. New Zealandian (born in Australia) Missionary in China, wrote ...

EDGERTON, Eleanor (née Hill). 1??? — 19??. Second wife (from 195?) of —> Franklin E. Worked ...

EDGERTON, Franklin. Le Mars, Iowa 24.7.1885 — Laramie, Wyoming 7.12. 1963. U.S. Indologist. Professor in New ...

EDGEWORTH, Michael Pakenham. Edgeworthstown, co. Longford, Ireland 24.5.1812 — Eigg Island, Inner Hebrides 30.7.1881. Irish Botanist and Civil Servant ...

EDGREN, August Hjalmar. Karlskoga 18.10.1840 — ...

EDMAN, Lars. Kalf (Älfsborg län) 22.11.1824 — 27.5.1921. Swedish Oriental Scholar and Linguist (Germanic) interested in Sanskrit. Son of a farmer, educated in Gothenburg. From 1847 studies at Uppsala, fil.kand. (Ph.D.) 1857. From ...

EDWARDES, Stephen Meredyth. 1873 — Felden, Hertfordshire 1.1.1927. British Civil Servant and Historian in India, from 1923 editor ...

EDWARDS, Edward. Llangedwyn 5.5.1870 — Llandinam 28.4.1944. British Librarian and Iranian Scholar. B.A. Wales and Cambridge. Educated in Oswestry and Bala. Studies at University College ...

EDWARDS, James Fairbrother. Bolton, Lancastershire 25.3.1875 — Auburndale, Polk County, Florida 5.12.1951. Rev. British Missionary and ...

EELSINGH, Herman Frederik. Tienhoven (Zuid-Holland) 17.11.1882 — Utrecht 1909 or Groningen 29.9.1908. Dutch Indologist. Son of ...

EFREMOV, Filipp Sergeevič. 1750 — after 1811. Russian Traveller. From Vjatka. He was Sergeant of Russian army, taken prisoner by a band of Cossacks and ...

EGGELING, Hans Julius. Hecklingen bei Staßfurt ...

EGGER, Josef. 18?? — 1???. Austrian Student of IE Linguistics. Ph.D. 1880 Wien. He was probably teacher first in Graz, then in the 1880s in Vienna. He must not be confused (as was ...

EGGERMONT, Pierre Herman L

EGGERS, Alexander. Reval (Tallinn) 3.4.1864 — Karlshorst 13.6.1937. German (of Estonia) Schoolteacher, a former Student of Indology. Son ...

EGGERS, Wilhelm. Magdeburg 23.4.1888 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Son of a contractor (then geh. Baurat). Gymnasium 1898-1908 in Aschersleben, stopped at Unterprima without ...

EGUILAZ Y YANGUAZ, Leopoldo. Mazzarrón (prov. Murcia) 29.9.1829 — Granada 15.7.1906. Spanish Literate interested in Sanskrit. Professor in ...

EHNI, Jacques David (Jakob D.E.). Cannstadt near Stuttgart 25.11.1827 — Nyon 19.7.1903. German Indologist, Scholar of ...

EHRENFELS, Umar Rolf, Baron von (born as Rolf Werner Leopold von E.). Prague 28.4.1901 — Neckargemünd 7.2.1980. Austrian ...

EHRLICH, Hugo. Hannover 30.10.1878 — Masuria 1914. German IE Linguist. Educated in Hannover, studied IE and classical philology ...

EICHHOFF, Frédéric-Gustave. Le Havre 17.8.1799 — Paris 11.5.1875. French (of German origin) Linguist. Born as the ...

EICKSTEDT, Egon Rudolf Ernst Adolf Hans Dubslaff, Freiherr von. Jersitz, Kreis Posen-Ost ...

EIDLITZ, Walther. Vienna 28.8.1892 — Vaxholm 28.8.1978. Austrian Author interested in Indian Religion. Son of Sigmund E. and ...

EILERS, Wilhelm M. J. Leipzig 27.9.1906 — Würzburg 3.7.1989. German Oriental (Semitic) and Iranian Scholar. Professor ...

EITEL, Ernst Johann (Ernest John E.). Esslingen am Neckar 13.2.1838 — Adelaide 10.11.1908. German Missionary in China, Sinologist ...

EKELUND, Jakob. Valla (Bohuslän) 17.12.1790 — Stockholm 6.12.1840. Swedish Teacher and Historian interested in India. Son of Johannes ...

EKENSTAM, Fabian Wilhelm af (until 1810 Ekenman). Sålla (Sjögestad, Östergötland) 10.10.1786 — Stora Tona (Västerås stift) 7.2.1868. Swedish ...

EKLUND, Johan Alfred. Ryda, Skaraborgs län 7.1.1863 — Brunskog, Värmland 23.8.1945. Swedish ...

EKVALL, Robert Brainerd. Minhsien, Kansu 18.2.1898 — 1978. U.S. Missionary and Tibetan Scholar. Born in China as a son of a ...

ÈL’MANOVIČ, S. D. 18?? — 19??. Russian Translator (?). His Manu translation was made directly from Sanskrit, but ...

ELIADE, Mircea. Bucharest 9.3.1907 (his own, others say rather 13.3., Old Era 28.2.) — Chicago 22.4.1986. ...

ELIAS, Ney. Widmore, Bromley, Kent 10.2.1844 — London 31.5.1897. British Diplomat and Explorer. Son of Ney Elias, a ...

ELIOT, Charles Norton Edgcumbe. Sibford Gower, Oxfordshire 8.1.1862 — Strait of Malacca 16.3.17.3.1931. Sir. ...

ELLIOT, Henry Miers. Westminster 1.3.1808 — Cape Colony 20.12.1853. British Civil Servant in India and a ...

ELLIOT, Walter. Edinburgh 16.1.1803 — Wolfelee, Roxburghshire 1.3.1887. British (Scottish) Civil Servant, Indologist, Epigraphist ...

ELLIOTT, Charles. London 10.12.1776 — London 4.5.1856. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Charles E., a cabinet-maker, ...

ELLIOTT, John Bardoe. Ripon, Yorkshire 1785 — Patna 1863. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John E., ...

ELLIS, Francis Whyte. 1777? — Ramnad 10.3.1819. British Civil Servant and Pioneer of Indology ...

ELMORE, Wilber Theodore. Saint Charles, Kane country, Illinois 29.7.1871 — Wayne, Delaware 27.11.1935. Rev. U.S. Baptist Missionary in ...

ELMSLIE, William Jackson. Aberdeen 29.6.1832 — Gujrat (now Pakistan) 18.11.1872. British Missionary Physician in ...

ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart. Dumbarton 6.10.1779 — Hookwood, Surrey 20.11.1859. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of John, the ...

ELWELL, Levi Henry. Northampton, Mass. 22.3.1854 — Ibid. 27.12.1916. U.S. Indologist and Classical scholar. Son of Levi Henry ...

ELWIN, Harry Verrier Holman. Dover 29.8.1902 — Delhi 22.2.1964. British Anthropologist in ...

EMELEN, Arthur van. 18?? — 19??. S.J. Father. Belgian Missionary in India. Worked in Chota ...

EMINESCU, Mihai. Botoşani 15.1.1850 — Bucharest 15.6.1889. Romanian Poet interested in India. One of Romania’s most notable poets. Of somewhat unclear origin, son ...

ENDLE, Sidney. Totney, Devon 1840? — 1907. Rev. British Missionary in India. First arrived at Tezpur in Assam ...

ENGELSMANN, Gabriel. 18?? — 1???. Student of Indology in Austria. Ph.D. 1885 Wien. Perhaps from a learned Jewish family in what is now ...

ENGER, Maximilian. 18?? — 1???. German Oriental Scholar. Ph.D. 1851 Bonn. In 1852-61 PD at Bonn, also taught Sanskrit (Rabault-Feuerham 2008).

ENGER, Maximilian. 18?? — 1???. German Oriental Scholar. Ph.D. 1851 Bonn. In 1852-61 PD at Bonn, also taught Sanskrit (Rabault-Feuerham 2008).

ENRIQUEZ, Colin Metcalfe. Fyzabad, India 3.10.1884 — Mogok, Burma 29.5.1969. British Officer. Son of Colonel Albert Dallas E. ...

ENRIQUEZ, Enrique —> Henrique HENRIQUEZ

ENTHOVEN, Reginald Edward. Hastings, Sussex 23.11.1869 — Boars ...

ENTWISTLE, Alan W. Weymouth, Dorsett 10.3.1949 — Seattle 28.3.1996. British Indologist in the U.S.A. Professor in ...

ERDMAN, Axel. Stockholm 6.2.1843 — Uppsala 8.11.1926. Swedish Linguist. Professor of English in Uppsala. Son of the mineralogist Axel J. E. ...

ERDMANN, Franz von (Fëdor Ivanovič Èrdman). Ludwigslust/Mecklenburg 15.3.1793 (or 1795?) — Kazan 2/14.2.1862. German Historian of Asia in ...

ERGARDT, Jan. 1936 — 23.12.1992. Swedish Scholar of Comparative Religion, especially Buddhism. Ph.D. 1970 Lund. He taught at ...

ERNOUT, Alfred Georges. Lille 30.10.1879 — Paris 16.6.1973. French IE and Classical Linguist, mainly Latin Scholar. Son of Léon E., tradesman in Lille, ...

ERNŠTEDT (Jernstedt), Petr Viktorovič. Gačina (Hačina) 9.(21.)6.1890 — Leningrad 25.12.1966. ...

ERSKINE, William. Edinburgh 8.11.1773 — Edinburgh 20.5.1852. British (Scottish) Civil Servant and Lawyer. 1804-23 in India. ...

ESCHMANN, Anncharlott. Munich 24.9.1941 — Delhi 6.4.1977. German Indologist. Daughter of Professor Ernst Wilhelm E., a ...

ESNOUL, Anne-Marie. Saint-Malo 1908 — Saint-Malo 1996. French Indologist. After school in Saint-Malo and licence de philosophie in ...

ESSER, Alexander Albert Maria. Düsseldorf 25.1.1885 — Düsseldorf 4.2.1972. German Physician interested ...

ESSERS, Bénard. Den Helder ?.8.1919 — Beekbergen 23.6.1960. Dutch Theologian interested in Indology. Studies at Amsterdam (Faddegon and ...

ESSIGMANN, Alois. Vienna 4.5.1878 — Vienna 3.3.1937. Austrian Author. In 1897 joined the army, but finally ...

ESTELLER Y MELIÀ, Adolfo. Alcanar (Montsià) near Valencia 10.1.1899 — ...

ESTÊVÃO, Tomás —> Stephens, Thomas.

ETHERINGTON, William Duke. Gosport, Hampshire 1838 — Torquay, Devonshire 5.6.1907. Rev. British ...

ETTINGHAUSEN, Maurice Leon. Paris 25.1.1883 — Oxford 14.11.1974. French (Jewish) student of Indology. Son of Herman Lionel E. ...

EVANS-WENTZ, Walter Yeeling (born Wentz, added his mother’s surname c. 1910).

EVEREST, George. Gwerndale near Brecon, Wales 4.6.1790 — London 1.12.1866. Sir. British (Welsh) Colonial Officer and ...

EVERETT, Charles Carroll. Brundwick, Maine 19.6.1829 — Cambridge MA 16.10.1900. U.S. Unitary Theologian interested in Indian ...

EVOLA, Giulio (Julius) Cesare Andrea. Rome 19.5.1889 — Rome 11.6.1974. Italian Lawyer, Poet, Painter, Author, and ...

EWALD, Georg Heinrich August (von). Göttingen 16.11.1803 — Göttingen 4.5.1875. ...

EWER, Walter. 1784 — London 5.1.1863 (when 78). British Colonial Servant in India. Son of Walter E., ...

EWING, Arthur Henry. Saltsburg, Pa. 18.10.1864 — Allahabad 13.9.1912. U.S. Missionary and Indologist in ...