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FABRI, Charles Louis (Károly Lajos Fábri). Budapest 18.11.1899 — Delhi 7.7.1968. Hungarian Archaeologist and Art Historian in India. Born in a ...

FABRICIUS, Johann Philip. Kleeberg/Hessen 22.1.1711 — Madras 23.1. 1791. German Missionary and Tamil Scholar. In India from 1740 until his death. ...

FADDEGON, Barend. Amsterdam 9.7.1874 — Rheden 28.6.1955. Dutch Indologist. Professor in Amsterdam. Studies of Dutch at Amsterdam (Uhlenbeck), then Indology at ...

FAIANI, Antonio. 17.8.1859 — 19??. Italian School-Teacher interested in Indology. Director of R. Liceo-Ginnasio Massimo d’Azeglio in Turin. Perhaps lived into an advanced age.

Publications: “Due capitoli che agevolano la lettura del ...

FAIRBANKS, Gordon Hubert. Calgary, Alberta 1913 — 13.7.1985. Canadian Linguist, NIA, IE, Russian and Armenian Scholar in the U.S.A. Citizen of the U.S.A. Professor in Ithaca and Hawaii. Educated at University of Alberta ...

FAIRSERVIS, Walter Ashlin, Jr. Brooklyn, N.Y. 17.2.1924 — 12.7.1994. U.S. Archaeologist. Museum Curator and Professor in New York. He ...

FALCONER, Hugh. 29.2.1808 — London 31.1.1865. British (Scots) Physician, Botanist, Geographer and Traveller in India. Son of David Falconer, educated at Forres and ...

FALK, Maryla. Lwów (now L’viv) 26.4.1906 — Chamonix 13.6.1980. Polish Indologist. Born in the the Austrian Lemberg (now Ukraina). It remains unknown, whether she actually ...

FALLON, Samuel William. Calcutta 1817 — 3.10.1880. British Teacher in India. “Entered the Bengal Education Department in his 20th year, was inspector of ...

FANSHAWE, Herbert Charles. 28.3.1852 — 26.3.1923. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Rev. John Faithful F. and Elizabeth Upton. Joined I.C.S. 1873, served mainly in the Punjab, retired 1901. Married 1906 Harriet ...

FARIA, João de. 1539 — 1581. S.J. Father. Portuguese Missionary in India. Joined the S.J. in 1563, left for Goa in 1572, came ...

FARQUHAR, John Nicol. Aberdeen 6.4.1861 — Manchester 17.7.1929. British (Scots) Missionary in India, ...

FATONE, Vicente. Buenos Aires 1903 — 1962. Argentinian Philosopher of Religion. Graduated 1926 in Buenos Aires, in philosophy. In 1937-38 studies of Indian ...

FAUCHE, Hippolyte. 23.5.1795 — Juilly (Seine-et-Marne) 28.2.1869. French Author and Translator of Sanskrit Classics. Born in Juilly or Auxerre, spent most ...

FAURIEL, Claude. Saint-Étienne (Loire) 21.10.1772 — Paris 14/15.7.1844. French Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Paris. Son of Joseph F., a carpenter, studied ...

FAUSBØLL, Michael Viggo. Hove near Lemvig 22.9.1821 — Charlottenlund 3.6.1908. Danish Indologist. Professor ...

FAUST, Adolf. 18?? — 1???. German Student of IE Linguistics. Ph.D. 1877 Strassburg. Probably same AF, who in 1915 was school-teacher (Professor) in ...

FAVRE, Pierre Étienne Lazare. Janville (Eure-et-Loir) 12.2.1812 — Paris 17.3.1887. Abbé. French Missionary and South-East Asian (Malay) Scholar. Ordained 1836 in Orléans, 1842 ...

FAWCETT, Charles Gordon Hill. 28.6.1869 — 7.3.1952. Sir. British Historian of Colonial India. Educated at Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1890 joined ...

FAWCETT, Frederick. 18?? — 19??. British Civil Servant in India. Retired before 1911 as Deputy Inspector General of Police in Madras. An amateur ...

FAY, Edwin Whitfield. Minden, Louisiana 1.1.1865 — Pittsburgh, PA 17.2.1920. U.S. Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Texas. Son of Edwin Hedge Fay, a known educator, and Sarah Elizabeth Shields, attended with a few ...

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. Left Venice in 1567, travelled via Aleppo ...

FÉER, Henri Léon. Rouen 22.11.1830 — Paris 10.3.1902. French Indologist and Buddhist Scholar. ...

FELBER, Erwin. 1885 — 1929. Austrian Musicologist. Ph.D. 1911 Wien. In 1926 he was Verlags­buchhändler in Berlin.

FELIX, Father —> Felix FINCK

FENICIO, Jacobo. Capua 1558 — 1632. Father, S.J. Italian Missionary, in India 1583-1632, working in Malabar Mission. He wrote an interesting account of ...

FENIGER, Siegmund (Nyānaponika Mahāthera). Hanau 29.7.1901 — Forest Hermitage, Kandy 19.10.1994. German Bauddha and Buddhist scholar. Born in Hessen in a ...

FERGUSON (or Fergusson), John. 17?? — 1???. British Officer in India. Captain. The author of the first English Hindustani dictionary in 1773.

Publications: A dictionary of the Hindostan Language. 1. English and ...

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

FERGUSON, Donald William. Colombo 8.10.1853 — Croydon 29.6.1910. British Journalist and Scholar of Sri Lankan History (especially of Colonial Period). Son of A. M. F. ...

FERGUSSON, James. Ayr 22.1.1808 — London 9.1.1886. British (Scots) Architect and Historian of Indian architecture. Son of Dr. William F., educated ...

FERNÁNDEZ Y GONZÁLEZ, Francisco. Albacete 26.9.1833 — Madrid 1917. Spanish Linguist and Polyglot, also knew Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian. Son of a cavalry ...

FERRAND, Paul Joseph Gabriel. Marseille 22.1.1864 — Paris 31.1.1935. French Diplomat, Orientalist (esp. Arabic Scholar) and a Specialist of ...

FERRARIO, Benigno. 1887? — 1956?. Uruguayan Scholar (of Italian origin) interested in India. In the 1950s Profesor de Lenguas Clásicas y Filosofia at ...

FERRERO DE GUBERNATIS, Onorio. Turin 1908 — Lima 1989. Italian Oriental Scholar in Peru, interested in Indian Religion. Moved to Peru in 1942. from 1952 taught ...

FERTIG, Michael. 1??? — 1???. German. Probably the Bavarian schoolteacher, who then published studies about classical philology in Landshut and Passau. From 1834 ...

FESTUGIÈRE, André-Jean. Paris 15.3.1898 — Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne) 13.8.1982. French Dominican Father and Scholar of Classical and Comparative Religion. Education and studies in Paris. ...

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 Die Medizin im Avesta ...

FICK, Friedrich Conrad August. Petershagen bei Minden 5.5.1833 — Hildesheim (or Breslau?) 24.3.1916. German Linguist (IE scholar). Professor in ...

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

FIELD, Dorothy. 18?? — 19??. Lady. Apparently a Britishwoman in India, but no details are founf about her.

Publications: The Religion of the Sikhs. 114 p. Wisdom of the East Series. 1901.

FIERLINGER, Julius Josef Claudius von. Vienna 15.1.1862 — Baden bei Wien 22.8.1884. Austrian Linguist. He must be the younger ...

FIGULLA, Hugo Heinrich. Loslau, Kr. Rybnik, Oberschlesies 27.12.1885 — London 6.2.1969. German Assyriologist and Hittite Scholar also interested in Dravidian. After gymnasium in ...

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

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

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

FINCH, William. 15?? — Baghdad ?.8.1613. British Merchant and Traveller in India. From London. He came to Surat with Hawkins in 1608 and ...

FINCK, Felix. Antwerpen 1868 — Maryabad 29.3.1932. Father. Belgian Capuchin (OFM) Missionary, Historian and Tibetan Scholar in India. From Antwerpen, worked in Maryabad in Western Punjab. In 1912 living in Calcutta.

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FINCK, Franz Nikolaus. Krefeld 26.2.(26.6.?)1867 — Berlin-Südende 3./4.5.1910. German Linguist (Indo-Europaean and Gipsy). Professor in Berlin. Son of the factory-owner Jakob F. and ...

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

FIÓK, Károly. Nagy Karolyi 29.4.1857 — Debrecen 21.5.1915. Hungarian School-teacher and Translator of Sanskrit Literature. Studies of IE, Persian and Sanskrit ...

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

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

FISCHER, Kurt. Berlin 2.3.1892 — Berlin 25.8.1942. German Bauddha. Adopted Buddhism in 1916. Secretary and successor of Dahlke as the leader of Buddhistische ...

FISCHER, Leopold —> Bharati, Agehananda

FITCH, Ralph. 1550? — 1611. English Merchant and Traveller in India. In February 1583 left London with other merchants (i.a. John Newberry) of ...

FITZCLARENCE, George Augustus Frederick, First Earl of Munster. 29.1.1794 — London 20.3.1842. British Officer and Traveller. Illegitimate son of William IV and Dorothea Bland ...

FLECHIA, Giovanni. Piverone (Piemonte) 6.11.1811 — Piverone 3.7.1892. Italian Indologist. Professor in Turin. Son of Carlo F., a physician, and Teresa ...

FLEET, John Faithfull. Royston (Chiswick) 1.5.1847 — 21.2.1917. British Indologist (Epigraphist and Historian). ...

FLENSBURG, Nils Olof Mathias. Lund 22.4.1855 — 7.4.1926. Swedish Indologist. Professor in Lund. Son of a priest (future bishop) Wilhelm Fl., ...

FLORENZ, Carl Adolf. Erfurt 10.1.1865 — Hamburg 1.4.1939. German Indologist and Japanologist. Professor in Tokyo and Hamburg. Ph.D. 1888 Leipzig. Son of a ...

FLORSCHÜTZ, Josip (Josef). Agram (Zagreb) 8.3.1864 — Ibid. 22.9.1916. Croatian (Austrian) Linguist. From 1882 studies of Slavic, German and IE at Vienna, Ph.D. ...

FOHALLE, René François Joseph. Verviers 12.5.1899 — 198?. Belgian Linguist. Professor in Liège. Obtained classical education at Athénée royal de Verviers in 1910-17, ...

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

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 W. 5.3.1942 — India 29.10.1985. U.S. Scholar of Indian Religion. Son of Wallace F. Studies at Western Michigan University and Harvard. Professor ...

FONSECA, José Nicolau da. (1837–1886; Historian of Portuguese India, himself from Goa). See Who Was Who among Indian Indologists. ...

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

FOOTE, Robert Bruce. 22.9.1834 — Calcutta 29.12.1912. British Geologist in South India, a Pioneer of Indian Prehistoric Archaeology. Joined the Geological Survey of ...

FORBES, Alexander Kinloch. 7.7.1821 — 13.8.1865. British (Scots) Civil Servant in India and Pioneer of Gujarātī Studies. Son of John F.-Mitchell (1781–1822) and ...

FORBES, Charles James Forbes Smith- (C. J. F. Smith). 18?? — ...

FORBES, Duncan. Pertshire 28.4.1798 — 17.8.1868. British (Scots) Orientalist (Persian and Urdu scholar). Born in a poor family, in 1801 remained ...

FORBES, James. London 1749 — Aix-la-Chapelle 1.8.1819. British (Scots) Civil Servant in India. In 1765 came to Bombay as a writer, 1775 private ...

FORCHHAMMER, Emmanuel. St.Antönien 12.3.1851 — Myingyan 26.4.1890. Swiss Indologist (Pāli Scholar) in Burma. He was born in Switzerland as son of ...

FORKE, Ernst Conrad Alfred. Schöningen/Kr. Helmstedt (Braunschweig) 12.1.1867 — Hamburg 9.7.1944. German Sinologist. Professor in Hamburg. Son of Wilhelm ...

FORLONG, James George Roche. Springhall, Lanarkshire 11.1824 — Edinburgh 29.3.1904. British (Scots) Military Engineer and a Scholar of Religion in India. Major-General. Son ...

FORMICHI, Carlo. Naples 14.2.1871 — Rome 13.12.1943. Italian Indologist. Professor in Rome. Studied at Naples law and letters (Indology under Kerbaker), ...

FORREST, George William. Nusserabad 8.1.1846 — 28.1.1921 (or 1926?). Sir. British Historian of the Colonial Period. Son of Captain George F., educated privately ...

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

FORSTER, Henry Pitts. 1766? — 10.9.1815. British Civil Servant in India and a Pioneer of Indology. In 1783 joined the Bengal ...

FORSTER, Johann Georg Adam. Nassenhuben near Danzig 27.11.1754 — Paris 10.1.1794. German Scientist, Author and Traveller interested in India. Son of —> J. R. F. ...

FORSTER, Johann Reinhold. Dirschau (now Tczew), West Prussia 22.10.1729 — Halle 9.12.1798. German Scientist. Son of a mayor, of an originally Scottish family ...

FORTUNATOV, Filip Fedorovič. Vologda 14(2).1.1848 — Petrozavodsk 3.10.(20.9.)1914. Russian Indologist and Linguist. Studies in Moscow under Petrov and others, graduated in ...

FOSTER, William. 19.11.1863 — 11.5.1951. Sir. British Historian of Indian Colonial Period. Son of William F., educated at Cooper’s Grammar School and London ...

FOUCAUX, Philip-Édouard. Angers 15.9.1811 — Paris 19.5.1894. French Indologist and Tibetan scholar. Professor in Paris. Son of a wealthy merchant from ...

FOUCHER, Alfred Charles Auguste. Lorient (Morbihan, Bretagne) 21.11.1865 — Sceaux 30.10. 1952. French Indologist, Art Historian and Archaeologist. Professor in Paris. ...

FOULKES, Thomas. Wales 1826 — 1901. Rev. British (Welsh) Priest and Indologist in India. Educated in Islington, ordained deacon 1848 and ...

FOWLER, Alexander Murray. Cape Town, South Africa 23.3.1905 — 1996 (1999?). U.S. Indologist ...

FOX-STRANGWAYS, Arthur Henry. Norwich 14.9.1859 — Dinton, Wiltshire 2.5.1948. British Musicologist. Son of an offices, Walter Aston F.S., and Harriet Elizabeth Bullier. Educated ...

FOY, Willy (Karl Max Emil). Leipzig 27.11.1873 — 1.3.1929. German Indologist and Ethnologist. Professor in Cologne. After school in Leipzig studied ...

FRACHTENBERG, Leo Joachim. Czernowitz (now in Ukraina) 24.2.1883 — Waterloo, Iowa 26.11.1930. U.S. (Austrian born) Linguist and Anthropologist. Son of Abraham Fr. and ...

FRAENKEL, Ernst Eduard Samuel. Berlin 16.10.1881 — Hamburg 2.10.1957. German IE, Greek, and Balto-Slavic Linguist. Son of Albert Fr. (1848–1916), a specialist of ...

FRANCKE, August Hermann. Gnadenfrei/Schlesien 5.11.1870 — Berlin 16.2.1930. German Missionary (in Ladakh) and Tibetologist. Professor in Berlin. Son of A.H.Fr., a ...

FRANCKLIN, William. 1763 — India 12.4.1839. British Colonial Officer and Historian in India. Son of Thomas Fr., educated at Westminster and Trinity College, ...

FRANK, Othmar (orig. Johann Georg Frank). Bamberg 8.5.1770 — Vienna 16.9.1840. German Pioneer of Indology. Professor in Munich. After school he ...

FRANKE, Alwin Wilhelm Otto. Gernrode/Harz 27.9.1863 — Berlin 5.8.1946. German Sinologist (started with Indology). Son of the Burgermeister Friedrich ...

FRANKE, Rudolf Otto. Wickerode/Harz 24.6.1862 — Königsberg 5.2.1928. German Indologist. Professor in Königsberg. ...

FRANKFURTER, Oskar. Hamburg 23.2.1851 — Hamburg 1.10.1922. German South-East Asian and Pāli Scholar. After Johanneum in Hamburg studied i.al. Indology at ...

FRANZÓ, Gregorio. 23.6.1879 — 19??. Italian School-Teacher interested in Indian Thought. Teacher (Professor) of “materie letterarie” at R. Ginnasio superiore in Grosseto. Still active with Greek in 1926.

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