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FABRI, Charles Louis (Károly Lajos Fábri). Budapest 18.11.1899 — Delhi 7.7.1968. Hungarian Archaeologist and ...

FABRICIUS, Johann Philip. Kleeberg/Hessen 22.1.1711 — Madras 23.1.1791. German Missionary and Tamil Scholar. In India from ...

FABRICIUS, Pierre. Berlin 23./30.4.1912 — 20.12.1988. French (of German origin) Indologist and ...

FADDEGON, Barend (Bernard). Amsterdam 9.7.1874 — Ede 28.6.1955. Dutch Indologist. Professor in Amsterdam. Son of Barend ...

FAIANI, Antonio. 17.8.1859 — 19??. Italian School-Teacher interested in Indology. Director of R. Liceo-Ginnasio Massimo d’Azeglio ...

FAIRBANKS, Gordon Hubert. Calgary, Alberta 1913 — 13.7.1985. Canadian Linguist in the U.S.A., NIA, ...

FAIRSERVIS, Walter Ashlin, Jr. Brooklyn, N.Y. 17.2.1924 — Sharon, Conn. ...

FALCONER, Hugh. Forres, Moray 29.2.1808 — London 31.1.1865. British (Scottish) Physician, Botanist, Geologist and Traveller in ...

FALK, Maryla. Lemberg (Lwów, now L’viv) 26.4.1906 — Chamonix (Hautes Alpes) 13.6.1980. Polish Indologist. Born in the the Austrian ...

FALLON, Pierre. Namur 24.9.1912 — Calcutta 20.9.1985. S.J. Belgian Jesuit Missionary in India. Indian citizen 1950. ...

FALLON, Samuel William. Calcutta 1817 — London 3.10.1880. British Teacher in India, Folklorist and Lexicographer. “Entered ...

FANSHAWE, Herbert Charles. 28.3.1852 — 26.3.1923. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. John Faithful ...

FANTIN-DESODOARDS (F. des Odoards), Antoine-Étienne Nicolas. Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin 26.12.1738 — Paris 25.9.1820. ...

FARIA, João de. 1539 — 1581. S.J. Father. Portuguese Missionary in India. Joined the S.J. in ...

FARQUHAR, John Nicol. Aberdeen 6.4.1861 — Manchester 17.7.1929. ...

FATONE, Vicente. Buenos Aires 12.2.1903 — Buenos Aires 11.12.1962. Argentinian Philosopher of Religion. Son of Italian immigrants, educated ...

FAUCHE, Hippolyte. 23.5.1795 (or 1797) — Juilly (Seine-et-Marne) 28.2.1869. French Author and Translator of ...

FAULKNER, Alexander. 18?? — 1881?. British Civil Servant in India. He joined Bombay Civil Service in 1839 and ...

FAURIEL, Claude. Saint-Étienne (Loire) 21.10.1772 — Paris 14/15.7.1844. French Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Paris. ...

FAUSBØLL, Michael Viggo. Hove ...

FAUST, Adolf. 18?? — 19??. German Student of IE Linguistics. Ph.D. 1877 Strassburg. Probably the same AF, who ...

FAVRE, Pierre Étienne Lazare. Janville (Eure-et-Loir) 12.2.1812 — Paris 17.3.1887. Abbé. French Missionary and South-East Asian (Malay) Scholar. ...

FAWCETT, Charles Gordon Hill. Southsea 28.6.1869 — Exmouth, Devon 7.3.1952. Sir. British Historian of Colonial India. Son of ...

FAWCETT, Frederick. 1853 — 1926. British Civil Servant in India. Served in Kerala, Superintendent of Malabar ...

FAY, Edwin Whitfield. Minden, Louisiana 1.1.1865 — Pittsburgh, PA 17.2.1920. U.S. Indologist and Linguist. ...

FAZY, Robert. Foëcy, Cher (France) 28.6.1872 — Lausanne 2.3.1956. Swiss Judge interested in Oriental Studies. Son of an engineer and economist in ancient ...

FEDERICI, Cesare de (Fedrici). Erbanno c. 1530 — 1600/03. Italian (Venetian) Merchant and Traveller in India. ...

FÉER, Henri Léon. Rouen ...

FEIST, Samuel Sigmund. Mainz 12.6.1865 — Copenhagen 23.3.1943. German IE Linguist and Pedagogue. Son of David F. and Juliana ...

FELBER, Erwin. 1885 — Vienna 27.5.1964. Austrian Musicologist. Son of Wolf Wilhelm F. and Johanna Back. ...

FELIX, Father —> Felix FINCK

FELL, Edward. 17?? — 1824. British Colonial Officer in India. From 1807 Lieutenant, then Captain of 10th Native ...

FENICIO, Jacobo (Jacome, Finicio). Capua c. 1558 — Cochin 1632. Father, S.J. Italian Missionary, in India 1583-1632, working ...

FENIGER, Siegmund (Nyānaponika Mahāthera). Hanau 29.7.1901 — Forest Hermitage, Kandy 19.10.1994. German Bauddha and ...

FERGUSSON, John. 17?? — Cape of God Hope 4.9.1773 (?). British Officer in India. Captain. The ...

FERGUSON, Alastair Mackenzie. Urquhart and Logie Weste (Cannon Bridge?), Rossshire 25.1.1816 — Colombo 26.12.1892. British (Scottish) Journalist in ...

FERGUSON, Charles Albert. Philadelphia 6.7.1921 — Palo Alto 2.9.1998. U.S. Indologist (Bengali Scholar) and Linguist. Professor in Stanford. Studies at University of Pennsylvania ...

FERGUSON, Donald William. Colombo 8.10.1853 — Croydon 29.6.1910. British (Scottish) Journalist and Scholar of Sri Lankan History (especially ...

FERGUSON, William. Urquhart and Logie Weste 18.7.1820 — Colombo 31.7.1887. British (Scottish) Civil Servant and ...

FERGUSSON, James. Ayr 22.1.1808 — London 9.1.1886. British (Scottish) Architect and Historian of Indian ...

FERNÁNDEZ Y GONZÁLEZ, Francisco. Albacete 26.9.1833 — Madrid 30.6.1917. Spanish Linguist and Polyglot, also knew Sanskrit, Arabic and ...

FERNANDEZ, Gonçalo. 1541 — 1619/21. Portuguese Jesuit in India. Arrived at India in 1560. In charge of the Mission in Madurai ...

FERRAND, Paul Joseph Gabriel. Marseille 22.1.1864 — Paris 31.1.1935. French Diplomat, Orientalist ...

FERRAR, Michael Lloyd. Belfast 1839 — 1904. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Michael Lloyd Ferrar, ...

FERRARI, Alfonsa. Aquila 1.11.1918 — 1.1.1954. Italian Indologist. Professor in Rome. Grew up in Milano, studied in Rome, ...

FERRARIO, Benigno. Italy 21.9.1887 — 1956. Italian Linguist in Uruguay, interested in Sanskrit. Graduated from I.U.O. in Naples. ...

FERRERO DE GUBERNATIS (y Ventimiglia), Onorio. Turn 21.6.1908 — Lima 1989. Italian Oriental Scholar in Peru, interested in Indian ...

FERTIG, Michael. Aschaffenburg? 1801 — Landshut 1873. German (Bavarian) schoolteacher. Probably studied at Würzburg ...

FESTUGIÈRE, André-Jean (Jean Paul Philippe). Paris 15.3.1898 — Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne) 13.8.1982. French Dominican Father and Scholar of Classical ...

FICHTNER, Horst. 1893 — 19??. German Student of History of Medicine, apparently without any linguistic knowledge. Dr. med. 1924 Leipzig.

Publications: diss. an excerpt of 16 p. of the work publ. as ...

FICK, Friedrich Conrad August. Petershagen bei Minden 5.5.1833 — Hildesheim 24.3.1916. German ...

FICK, Richard Friedrich. Schwartau near Lübeck 7.2.1867 — Göttingen 18.12. 1944. German Indologist. Son of Adolf Fick, a ...

FIELD, Dorothy (Mrs. Norman Dudley Short). 1884 — 1968. Lady. British Writer, Musician and Woman Activist. In 1923-27 ...

FIERLINGER, Julius Josef Claudius von. Vienna 15.1.1862 — Baden bei Wien 22.8.1884. ...

FIGUEIREDO, António Pereita Cândido de. Lobão da Beira 19.9.1846 — Lisbon 26.9.1925. ...

FIGULLA, Hugo Heinrich Max. Loslau, Kr. Rybnik, Oberschlesien (now Wodzisław Śląski in Poland) 27.12.1885 — London 6.2.1969. German ...

FILCHNER, Wilhelm. Munich (or Bayreuth?) 13.9.1877 — Zürich 7.5.1957. German Geodesist and Explorer. Son of Eduard F. (1836-1882), ...

FILLIOZAT, Jean. Paris 4.11.1906 — Paris 27.10.1982. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. Son of a physician. ...

FILON, Louise Charlette. 1832 — 1902. See under her nom-de-plume —> SUMMER, Mary

FINCH, William. 15?? — Baghdad ?.8.1613. British Merchant and Traveller in India. Native of London. He came to ...

FINCK, Felix. Antwerpen 1868 — Maryabad 29.3.1932. Father. Belgian Capuchin (OFM) Missionary, Historian and Tibetan Scholar in India. ...

FINCK, Franz Nikolaus. Krefeld 26.6.(26.2.?)1867 — Berlin-Südende 3./4.5.1910. German Linguist (Indo-Europaean and Gipsy, but also Bantu, Polynesian and ...

FINEGAN, Jack. 11.7.1908 — 15.7.2000. U.S. Archaeologist and Scholar of the Bible and Religion. Professor at at Iowa ...

FINOT, Louis. Bar-sur-Aube 20.7.1864 — Toulon (Var) 16.5.1935. French Indologist and South-East Asian Scholar. Son of ...

FINZI, Felice. Correggio 1847 — Florence 3.9.1872. Italian (Jewish) Ethnologist and AssyriologistFIÓK, Károly

FIRTH, John Rupert. Keighley, Yorkshire 17.6.1890 — Linfield, Sussex 14.12. 1960. British Linguist and Phonetician. Professor ...

FISCHER, Klaus. Zittau (Sachsen) 23.11.1919 — Bonn 25.3.1993. German Archaeologist and Art Historian of South Asia. ...

FISCHER, Kurt (Curt) Bruno Otto. Berlin 2.3.1892 — Berlin 25.8.1942. German Bauddha. Son of a modest official. Adopted ...

FISCHER, Leopold —> Bharati, Agehananda

FITCH, Ralph. 1550? — London (?) 1611. English Merchant and Traveller in India. In February 1583 left London ...

FITZCLARENCE, George Augustus Frederick, First Earl of Munster. London 29.1.1794 — London 20.3.1842. British Officer and Traveller. Illegitimate ...

FLECHIA, Giovanni. Piverone (Piemonte) 6.11.1811 — Piverone 3.7.1892. Italian Indologist. Professor in Turin. Son of Carlo ...

FLEET, John Faithfull. Royston (Chiswick) 1.5.1847 ...

FLENSBURG, Nils Olof Mathias. Lund 22.4.1855 — Lund 7.4.1926. Swedish Indologist. Professor in Lund. Son of ...

FLEX, Oscar (Oskar). 18?? — 19??. Rev. German Missionary in India. From 1861 in Ranchi. Married with Antonie Flex. Note that ...

FLEX, Oscar (Oskar) Theodor. 1840 — 1???. German. In a tea plantation in Assam in 1864-67, then returned to Berlin. Note ...

FLORENZ, Karl Adolf. Erfurt 10.1.1865 — Hamburg 9.2.1939 (or 1.4.?). German Indologist and Japanologist. Professor in Tokyo and ...

FLORSCHÜTZ, Josip (Josef). Agram (Zagreb) 8.3.1864 — Ibid. 22.9.1916. Croatian (Austrian) Linguist. Son of Franjo and Katarina Fl. ...

FOHALLE, René François Joseph. Verviers 12.5.1899 — 1984. Belgian Linguist. Professor in Liège. Obtained classical education at Athénée ...

FOKKER, Abraham Anthony. Karmat / Batavia 27.9.1862 — the Hague 1.1.1927. Dutch Indonesian Scholar. Born in Indonesia, son ...

FOLEY, C. A. —> RHYS DAVIDS, C. A. F.

FOLEY, Mary Cecilia. Wadhurst, Sussex 8.10.1859 — London 22.10.1925. Britishwoman interested in Pāli. Daughter of Rev. John F. and Caroline Elizabeth Windham, sister ...

FOLKERT, Kendall Wayne. 5.3.1942 — Ahmedabad, Gujarat 29.10.1985. U.S. Scholar of Indian Religion. Son of Wallace F. and ...

FONSECA, José Nicolau da. (1837–1886) Historian of Portuguese India, himself from Goa.

FONTANE, Marius Étienne. Marseille 4.9.1838 — Berck (Pas-de-Calais) 1914. French Literate. In the age of 17 he joined ...

FOOTE, Robert Bruce. Cheltenham 22.9.1834 — Calcutta 29.12.1912. British Geologist in South India, a Pioneer of Indian Prehistoric ...

FORBES (FORBES-LESLIE), Jonathan. 21.2.1798 — 23.12.1877. British ...

FORBES, Alexander Kinloch. London 7.7.1821 — Poona (Pune) 31.8.1865. British (Scottish) ...

FORBES, Charles James Forbes Smith- ...

FORBES, Duncan. Kinnaird, Pertshire 28.4.1798 — London 17.8.1868. British (Scottish) Oriental Scholar (Persian and Urdū). Born ...

FORBES, James. London 19.5.1749 — Aix-la-Chapelle 1.8.1819. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. In 1765 he came to ...

FORBES, Lestock Reid. Scotland 25.11.1835 — Brentford 5.12.1909. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of John Alexander ...

FORBES, William. 17?? — 1816?. British Civil Servant in India. In Bombay Presidency.

FORCHHAMMER, Emmanuel

FORKE, Ernst Conrad Alfred. Schöningen/Kr. Helmstedt (Braunschweig) 12.1.1867 — Hamburg 9.7.1944. German ...

FORLONG, James George Roche. Springhall, Lanarkshire 11.1824 — Edinburgh 29.3.1904. British (Scottish) Military Engineer and Scholar of Religion ...

FORMICHI, Carlo. Naples 14.2.1871 — Rome 13.12.1943. Italian Indologist. Professor in Rome. Son of a stockbroker, ...

FORREST, George William. Nusserabad 8.1.1846 — 28.1.1926. Sir. British Civil Servant in India, Historian of the Colonial Period. ...

FORREST, Robert Edward. 1835 — 1914. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Captain George F. of Indian ...

FORSTER, George. 17?? — Nagpur 1792. British Civil Servant and Traveller in India. Served in Madras. In 1782 ...

FORSTER, Henry Pitts. 1766? (or 1761) — Calcutta (?) 10.9.1815. British Civil Servant in India and ...

FORSTER, Johann Georg Adam. Nassenhuben near Danzig (now Mokry Dwór in Poland) 27.11.1754 — Paris 10.1.1794. German Scientist, ...

FORSTER, Johann Reinhold. Dirschau, West Prussia (now Tczew in Poland) 22.10.1729 — Halle 9.12.1798. German Scientist. Son of ...

FORTUNATOV, Filipp Fëdorovič. Vologda 14(2).1.1848 — Kossalmi near Petrozavodsk 3.10.(20.9.)1914. Russian Indologist and Linguist. Son of ...

FOSTER, James Murray. 1836 — 1879. British (Scottish) Physician in India. Med. Dr. In 1875 in Cachar (Assam). ...

FOSTER, William. Southsea 19.11.1863 — 11.5.1951. Sir. British Historian of Indian Colonial Period. Son of William F., educated ...

FOUCAUX, Philippe-Édouard. Angers 15.9.1811 — Paris 19.5.1894. French Indologist and Tibetan scholar. Professor in Paris. Son ...

FOUCHER D’OBSONVILLE, Charles Thomas Dominique. Montargis 1734 — Château-Thierry 14.1.1802. French Officer, Scholar and ...

FOUCHER, Alfred Charles Auguste. Lorient (Morbihan, Bretagne) 21.11.1865 — Sceaux 30.10.1952. French Indologist, Art Historian and ...

FOULKES, Thomas. Wales 1826 — 1901. Rev. British (Welsh) Priest and Indologist in India. Educated in Islington, ordained deacon 1848 and priest 1851. In 1849-55 worked in Tinnevelly, 1855-58 in Madras and 1858-59 in Tamil ...

FOULQUES, Alessandro Eduardo. Saratov 1861 — Naples 4.12.1907. Italian (of French-German origin)FOWLER, Alexander Murray

FOX-STRANGWAYS, Arthur Henry. Norwich 14.9.1859 — Dinton, Wiltshire 2.5.1948. British Musicologist. Son of an officer, Walter Aston F.-S., ...

FOY, Willy Karl Max Emil. Leipzig 27.11.1873 — 1.3.1929. German Indologist and Ethnologist. Professor in Cologne. ...

FRACHTENBERG, Leo Joachim. Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi in Ukraina) 24.2.1883 — Waterloo, Iowa 26.11.1930. U.S. (Austrian-born) Linguist and Anthropologist. ...

FRAENKEL, Ernst Eduard Samuel. Berlin 16.10.1881 — Hamburg 2.10.1957. German IE, Greek, and Balto-Slavic Linguist. Professor in Kiel ...

FRANCKE, August Hermann. Ober-Peilau, Schlesien (then Gnadenfrei, now Piława Górna in Poland) 5.11.1870 — Berlin 16.2.1930. ...

FRANCKLIN, William. 1763 — India 12.4.1839. British Colonial Officer and Historian in India. Son of Thomas ...

FRANK, Othmar (born Johann Georg Frank). Bamberg 8.5.1770 — Vienna 16.9.1840. German Pioneer of Indology. Professor ...

FRANKE, Alwin Wilhelm Otto. Gernrode/Harz 27.9.1863 — Berlin 5.8.1946. German Sinologist (started ...

FRANKE, Rudolf Otto. Wickerode/Harz 24.6.1862 — ...

FRANKFURTER, Oskar. Hamburg 23.2.1851 — Hamburg 1.10.1922. German South-East Asian and Pāli Scholar. Son of Naftali ...

FRANKO, Ivan Jakovič. Nahujewytschi, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Nahueviči in Ukraina) 15.(27.)8.1856 — Lemberg (L’viv) 28.5.1916. FRANZÓ, Gregorio

FRASER, Hugh. India 1851 — Woking (?) 28.1.1920. British (Scottish) Civil Servant in India. Son of Colonel Hugh. ...

FRASER, James. 1713 — 21.1.1754. British (Scottish) Factor in India, Historian and Manuscript Collector. Son of Alexander F. ...

FRASER, James Baillie. Edinburgh 11.6.1783 — Reelig (Moniack) near Inverness 23.1.1856. 15th Laird of Reelig. British (Scottish) Artist ...

FRASER, James Nelson. 1869 — Bombat 12.3.1918. British Civil Servant in India. In Educational Department, Principal of the ...

FRAUWALLNER, Erich. Wien-Währing 28.12.1898 — Vienna 5.7.1974. Austrian Indologist and Tibetan Scholar. Professor in Vienna. Son ...

FRAZER, Robert Watson. Dublin 1854 — 30.11.1921. Irish Indologist and Dravidian Scholar in British Service in ...

FREI, Henri. Baar (ZG) 5.6.1899 — 14.11.1980. Swiss Linguist. Professor in Genève. Son of an industrialist. Studies of linguistics at Genève and Paris ...

FREJMAN, Aleksandr Arnol’dovič. Warsaw 10.(22.)8.1879 — Leningrad 19.1.1968. Russian Iranist, specialist in Middle Iranian. Professor in ...

FREMKIAN, Aram. Constanţa 1898 — 1968. Romanian Classical (Greek) Scholar interested in Indology. Studies of Greek, linguistics and Sanskrit in Paris ...

FRERE, Henry Bartle Edward. Clydach, Monmouthshire 29.3.1815 — London 29.5.1884. Sir, Bart. ...

FREUDENBERG, Johann Philipp. Raubacher Hütte bei Dierdorf 18.2.1843 — Colombo 2.2.1911. German Merchant in Sri Lanka. Son of an ...

FRIEDLÄNDER, Walter Ferdinand. Glogau, Niederschlesien (now Glogow in Poland) 10.3.1873 — New York 8.9. 1966. German Student of ...

FRIEDMAN, David Lazar. Amsterdam 26.2.1903 — London 11.4.1984. Dutch Buddhist Scholar and Art Historian in the ...

FRIEDRICH, Adolf. Hofheim, Taunus 22.4.1914 — Rawalpindi 25.4.1956. German Anthropologist. Professor in Mainz. Son of the Reichsbahnoberinspector Ernst ...

FRIŠ, Oldřich. Boskovice (Moravia) 7.5.1903 — Prague 14.1.1955. Czech Indologist. Professor in Prague. Born in a ...

FRISK, Jöns Ivar Hjalmar. Göteborg 4.8.1900 ...

FRITZE, Ludwig. Stendhal (Sachsen-Anhalt) 9.12.(?)1833 — Köpenick 11.9.1922. German Schoolteacher and Translator of ...

FRITZSCHE, Adolf Richard. Leipzig 6.11.1851 — ...

FROHNMEYER, Ludwig Johannes. Ludwigsburg (Württemberg) 12.12. 1850 — Basel 16.3.1921. German Missionary and ...

FROLA, Eugenio. Montanaro 27.9.1906 — Turin 6.5.1962. Italian Mathematician interested in Buddhism. Son of Mario Fr. and Maria ...

FRY, Morton Allan HFRYE, J. P.

FRYER, George Edward. India 25.11.1832 — 1891. British Officer and Pāli Scholar in India and Burma. ...

FRYER, John. 1650? — London 31.3.1733. British Physician and Traveller in India and Iran. Son of William Fryer, ...

FUCHS, Rudolf. Heidelberg 19.1.1877 — 1941. German Student of Indology. Son of Lazarus F., a Professor of Mathematics (1833–1902; originally jew from Posen, ...

FUCHS, Stephen. Bruck an der Mur 30.4.1908 — St.Gabriel, Mödling 17.1.2000. S.V.D. Austrian Missionary and Anthropologist in India. ...

FUGLSANG, Niels Studsgaard. Holeby, Laaland 19.11.1759 — Slagelse, Sorø 29.12.1832. Danish Priest in India. Son of Herman F., ...

FÜHRER, Alois Anton. Limburg an der Lahn 26.11.1853 — Binningen 5.11.1930. German Indologist and Archaeologist ...

FULLER, Abraham Richard. Kanpur 12.11.1828 — Rawalpindi 20.8.1867. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Abraham F. (d. ...

FUMI, Fausto Gherardo. Montepulciano (Toscana) 17.10.1840 — Genua 1915. Italian Linguist interested in Sanskrit Literature. Studies ...

FURBER, Holden. Boston 13.3.1903 — Bedford MA 19.1.1993. U.S. Historian of Colonial India. ...

FÜRER-HAIMENDORF, Christoph(er) von. Vienna 27.6.1909 — ...

FURNIKA, Vitalij Petrovič. Dovžanka near Ternopil, western Ukraina 14.10.1940 — 16.4.1993. Russian (Ukrainian) Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Son of ...

FURRELL, James Wyburd. Grovesend, Kent 1836 — 1905. British Journalist (?). Son of James F. and Ann Wyburd. ...

FÜRST, Alfons. Sulzdorf/O.-A. Aalen 21.2.1892 — 19??. German student of Indology. Son of a farmer, educated in Hüttlingen, at Latinschule in Rottenburg and ...