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GAÁL, László. Karcag 22.1.1891 — Karcag 13.6.1964. Hungarian Classical and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Debrecen. Studies of classical and Oriental languages ...

GAASTRA, Dieuke. Dordrecht 18?? — 19??. Mrs. Dutch Indologist. Student of Caland. Ph.D. 1906 Utrecht. Perhaps same DG who married Arij ...

GABAIN, Annemarie von. Mörchingen 4.7.1901 — Berlin 15.1.1993. German Central Asian (Turcic) Scholar. Professor in Hamburg. Studied first mathematics and natural science at Berlin, from ...

GABELENTZ-LINSINGEN, Hans Albert von der. 14.11.1834 — 5.3.1892. German Naturalist interested in East Asia. Son of —> H. C. v. d. G., ...

GABELENTZ, Hans Conon von der. Altenburg (Thüringen) 13.10.1807 — Lemnitz bei Triptis (Thüringen) 3.9.1874. German Linguist. Son of chancellor Leopold v. d. G. (1778–1831) and Marianne von ...

GABELENTZ, Hans Georg Conon von der. Poschwitz bei Altenburg (Thüringen) 16.3. 1840 — Berlin 11.12.1893. German Sinologist. ...

GABET, Joseph. Nevy-sur-Seille (Jura) 4.12.1808 — Rio de Janeiro 3.3.1853. French Lazarist Missionary in China. Son of a smallholder, went at the age ...

GAEDICKE, Carl. 18?? — 1880?. German Indologist. A student of Delbrück. Ph.D. 1877 Jena, but died soon after finishing his study ...

GAIT, Edward Albert. 16.8.1863 — 14.3.1950. British Civil Servant and Assamese Scholar in India. Educated at University College, London. Entered I.C.S. in 1882. ...

GALANOS, Demetrios (Δημήτριος Γαλανός). Athens 1760 — Varanasi 1833. Greek Indologist in India. Son of an Athenian wealthy family, educated in ...

GALLÉE, Johan Hendrik. Vorden 9.9.1847 — Utrecht 3.2.1908. Dutch Linguist. Professor of IE Philology at Utrecht. Son of Johannes Hermannus G., a mayor, ...

GALVÃO, Antonio. Lisbon 1490? — Lisbon 11.3.1557. Portuguese Historian of Colonial India. Son of the chronicler Duarte G. (c. 1445–1517). From 1527 in ...

GAMPERT, Vilem (Wilhelm). Prague 29.6.1902 — Praha 14.3.1987. Czechoslovakian Indologist. Studied Indology at German University of Prague under Winternitz and O. ...

GARBE, Rikhard Karl (von). Bredow bei Stettin 9.3.1857 — Tübingen 22.9. 1927. German Indologist. Professor in Tübingen. Son of Gustav G., ...

GARCIA AYUSO, Francisco. Valverde del Camino near Segovia 1835 — Madrid 1897. Spanish Indo-Iranian Scholar. Studies of humanities at Segovia. In ...

GARÇIN DE TASSY, Joseph-Héliodore-Sagesse-Vertu. Marseille 20/25.1. 1794 — Paris 2/3.9.1878. French Indologist (Hindi-Urdu Scholar) and Orientalist. Professor in Paris. Son of ...

GARDNER, Percy. Hackney, Middlesex 24.11.1846 — Oxford 17.7.1937. British Classical Archaeologist and Historian. Professor in Oxford. Son of Thomas G., a stockbroker, and ...

GARIBAY KINTANA, Angel María. Toluca, México 18.6.1892 — Ciudad de México 19.10.1967. Mexican Linguist (Nahuatl Scholar) also interested in Sanskrit. Educated in Santa ...

GARNIER-MOEWES, Katharine von (née Moewes). Berlin 28.4.1863 — Bad Kösen a. d. Saale 23.11. 1936. German Student of Indology. ...

GARRETT, Herbert Leonard Offley. 16.6.1881 — 6.12.1941. British Historian of India. Professor of History and Principal of the Government College in Lahore. Last ...

GARRETT, John. 18?? — 1893. British Methodist Missionary and Clergyman in India. Came to India in 1839, became the first Direktor of Central ...

GARREZ, Pierre-Gustave. Rome 20.4.1834 — Paris 3.12.1888. French Indologist. Born in Rome, where ...

GARRICK, Henry Baily Wade. 18?? — 1???. British Archaeologist and Literate in India. Attended South Kensington School of Art. Assistant of Cunningham in ...

GARRITSEN, F. 19?? — 1974. Dutch Indologist. Studies at Utrecht under Gonda, whose Assistant he was from 1971 until his premature death. Therefore he could not finish his dissertation.

Publications: apparently published ...

GÄRTCHEN, Adolf Friedrich Hermann Paul. Herrnstadt, Kr. Guhrau, Silesia 14.10.1881 — 19??. German Student of IE Linguistics. Son of ...

GASKOIN, Charles Jacinth Bellairs. 18?? — 24.3.1955. British Historian. Son of Herman John Richard G., a principal of the War Office. Educated at ...

GATTI, Stanislao. Naples 1820 — Benevento 4.2.1870. Italian Philosopher – one of the Napoletan Hegelians – also interested in Indology. Son of St.G. ...

GAUTHIOT, Robert. Paris 13.6/7.1872 — Val-de-Grâce 11.9.1916. French Linguist, specialist in Iranian and Uralic, a Pioneer of Sogdian Studies. Son of ...

GAWROŃSKA, Antonina (née Miłkowskaja). 184? — 19??. Polish Teacher and Translator. Mother of —> Andrzej G. Married with the historian Franciszek G. (1845-1930), three sons.

Publications: translated:

Sources: Husband and son ...

GEBAUER, Jan. Úbislavice (Auslauf) near Nová Paka 8.10.1838 — Prague 25.5.1907. Czech Slavic and IE Linguist. Professor of Slavic Philology at Charles University ...

GEDEN, Alfred Shenington. Didsbury, Manchester 26.11.1857 — 3.8.1936. British Scholar of Religion. Son of John Dury G., D.D. of St.Andrews. Educated at Manchester ...

GEHMAN, Henry Snyder. Ephrata Lancaster Co., Pa. 1.6.1888 — Princeton NJ ?.5.1981. U.S. Classical scholar, Semitist and Sanskritist. Professor in Princeton. ...

GEIGER, Bernhard. Bielitz-Biala (Bielsko, then in Austrian Silesia) 30.4.1881 — New York 5.7.1964. Austrian Indo-Iranian Scholar, later in the U.S.A. Professor ...

GEIGER, Magdalene (née Grobe). Calbe (an d. Saale) 19.6.1877 — 25.1. 1960. German Indologist. Wife of —> W. Geiger. Daughter of ...

GEIGER, Wilhelm Ludwig. Nürnberg 21.7.1856 — Neubiberg near Munich 2.9. 1943. German Iranian Scholar and Indologist. Professor in Erlangen and Munich. ...

GEISLER, Carl. 18?? — 1???. Austrian Student of IE Linguistics. Ph.D. 1873 Wien.

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GELABERT Y GORDIOLA, Juan. Soller 1843 — Madrid 1894. Spanish Linguist and Philologist. Studies at Madrid (Sanskrit under Garcia Ayuso), Ph.D. ...

GELDER, Jeannette Maria van. Leiden 2.8.1894 — 15.8.1972 (when 78). Dutch Indologist. Daughter ...

GELDNER, Karl Friedrich. Saalfeld, Sachsen-Meiningen 17.12.1852 — Marburg/Lahn 5.2.1929. German Indologist and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Marburg. Son of Friedrich G. ...

GELPKE, Fritz Ludwig. Pekalongen 1896 — 1945. German Indologist. Son of Karl Otto G. and Anna Nahapiet, born in Indonesia. Participated ...

GEMELLI CARRERI, Giovanni Francesco. Radicena, Terranova 1651 — Naples 1725. Italian Physician and Traveller. Studies in a Jesuit college in Naples. Dr.iuris. Worked ...

GEMINIANUS A SANCTA OCTAVIA (wrongly Gemignanus a Sancto Octavio, Gemignano Da Sant’ Ottavio). Modena 1702? — on sea near Corfu, January 1763. Italian ...

GENTIL, Jean Baptiste Joseph. Bagnols 25.6.1726 — Bagnols 15.2.1799. French Officer in India. Born in a noble family, joined the army and went ...

GEORGE, Dieter. Frankurt a.M. 12.12.1935 — 8.9.1985. German Indologist. Son of Diplomvolkswirt Walter G. and Renate Robertson. In 1938 the family ...

GEORGIAN, Constantin D. Bucharest 2.1.1850 — 26.11.1904. Romanian Indologist, the First Schooled Oriental Scholar of his Country. Son of a shopkeeper, matriculated in ...

GERARD, Alexander. Aberdeen 17.2.1792 — Aberdeen 15.12.1839. British (Scots) Colonial Officer and Explorer in India. Son of Gilbert G. (1760–1815), D.D., and Helen ...

GERARD, James Gilbert. 1795 — Sabathu 31.3.1835. British (Scots) Military Physician and Explorer in India. Son of Gilbert G., D.D., brother of —> ...

GERINI, Gerolamo Emilio. Cisano sul Neva (Albenga) 10.3.1860 — Turin 11.10.1913. Italian Officer and South-East Asian Scholar in Thailand. Colonel. Son of Carlo ...

GETTY, Alice. Muskegon Mich. 18?? — New York 12.6.1946. U.S. Art Historian. Daughter of Henry H. Getty (1838–1920), a rich businessman ...

GEYLER, Alexius. 18?? — 1???. German Student. Ph.D. 1875 Jena.

Publications: diss. ...

GHEYN, Joseph-Marie-Martin van den. Gand 25.5.1854 — Bruxelles 29.1. 1913. S.J. Belgian scholar ...

GHICA, Elena (nom-de-plume Dora D’Istria), princess (in marriage Duchess Koltsova-Massalskaja). Bucharest 3.2.1828 — Florence 17.11.1888. Romanian Author, Historian and ...

GHILAINE, Antoine. 1901? — Arguennes 1.4.1947 (when 46). Belgian Iranian Scholar, Specialized in Parthian.

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GHIRSHMAN, Roman (Roman Mihajlovič Giršman). Harkiv 3.10.1895 — Budapest 5.9.1979. Russian Archaeologist of Iran in France. “Le duc de Suse”. Born ...

GHIRSHMAN, Tania (Antoinette Levienne). Constantinople 1900 — 1984. Wife and competent helper of —> Roman Gh., like him, of Russian origin. Daughter of ...

GIACOMINO, Claudio. Turin 17.6.1848 — 1923. Italian Linguist. Professor ord. of “lettere latine e greche” at R. Liceo M. d’Azeglio in Turin.

Publications: “Saggiuoli neoindiani”, Miscellanea Ascoli. Milano 1907, 129-143; review of ...

GIBBS, James. 1825 — 30.10.1886. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Right Hon. Michael G. (Lord Mayor 1845). Educated at Merchant Taylor’s ...

GIEDDE, Ove. Tommerup, Skåne 17.12.1594 — Copenhagen 19.12.1660. Danish Admiral. Son of Brostrup Giedde (d. 1614) and Dorthe Ulfeldt (d. 1622). In 1609-12 at a ...

GIL’FERDING (Hilferding), Aleksandr Fedorovič. Warsaw 2.7.1831 — Kargopol 20.7. 1872. Russian Historian and Slavic Linguist interested in Sanskrit, a Slavophil. Public servant. Son ...

GILCHRIST, John Borthwick. Edinburgh 1759 — Paris 9.1.1841. British (Scots) Indologist, a Pioneer of Hindi-Urdu Studies. Son of merchant Walter G., ...

GILDEMEISTER, Johannes Gustav. Klein-Siemen/Mecklenburg 20.7.1812 — Bonn 11.3.1890. German Indologist and Orientalist. Professor in Marburg and Bonn. Born in Mecklenburg countryside ...

GILES, Herbert Allen. Oxford 8.12.1845 — Cambridge 13.2.1935. British Sinologist. Professor in Cambridge. Son of John Allen G., editor and translator, and Anna ...

GILES, Peter. Strichen, Buchan dt., Aberdeenshire 20.10.1860 — Cambridge 17.9.1935. British Linguist and Classical Philologist. Reader in Cambridge. Son of Peter G., a ...

GILL, Robert. Hackney, London 26.9.1804 — on route from Ajanta to Bhusawal 10.4.1879. British Officer (Major) and Antiquarian in India. Son of a ...

GINNEKEN, Jacques (Jacobus Johannes Antonius) van. Oudenbosch 21.4.1877 — Nijmegen 20.10.1945. S.J. Dutch Linguist and Catholic Apologist. Professor in ...

GINZEL, Friedrich Karl. Reichenberg (Liberec) 23.2.1850 — Berlin 29.6.1926. Austrian (Bohemian) Astronomer. From 1877 Assistant at Vienna Observatory, in 1886 moved to Berlin, where Professor from 1899.

Publications: much on astronomy.

GIORDANO, Ferruccio Ducrey, conte. Turin 3.10.1928 — 8.7.1976. Italian Art Historian interested in Indology. Born of a Piemontese noble family, studied in Germany ...

GIORGI, Antonio Agostino (baptized Francesco Maria). Santo Marco near Rimini 10.5.1711 — Rome 4.5.1797. Italian Monk, Theologian, and Orientalist, a Coptic Scholar and ...

GIRARD DE RIALLE, Julien. Paris 27.9.1841 — Santiago (Chile) 23.11.1904. French Indologist, Civil Servant and Diplomat. Graduated in 1861, travelled anonymously ...

GIRAUDEAU, Pierre-Philippe. Saint-Mars-de-Coutais (Loire-Intérieure) 17.3.1850 — Ta-tsien lou, Tibet 13.11.1941. French Catholic Missionary in Tibet. Served in Franco-German war, ordained priest 1876. In ...

GIUSEPPE MARIA DA GARGNANO (Iosephus Maria a Gargnano; lay Bernardino Bernini). Gargnano near Brescia (then Venetian Republic) 2.9.1709 (hardly ...

GIUSSANI, Carlo. Milano 6.11.1840 — Milano 21.4.1900. Italian Indologist and Classical Scholar. Teacher in Milano. Son of Giovanni G. and Angela ...

GLADWIN, Francis. 17?? — 1813/18? (Wikisource gives years 1744 — 1812). British Colonial Officer and Orientalist (Persian Scholar) in India. Served in the ...

GLASENAPP, Otto Georg Bogislav von. Schivelbein/Hinterpommern 30.9.1853 — Berlin 3.3. 1928. German Lawyer and Banker interested in India. Father ...

GLASENAPP, Otto Max Helmuth von. Berlin 8.9.1891 — Tübingen 25.6. 1963. German Indologist. ...

GLASER, Karel (Karol Glazer). Kötsch bei Marburg (now Hočen, Maribor) 3.2.1845 — ibid. 18.7.1913. Austrian (Slovenian) Indologist. Schoolteacher in Trieste. In ...

GLEHN, ? de. 1??? — 1???. German Physician (?) interested in India. Dr. Lived in St.Petersburg and collaborated with —> R.Lenz. His seems ...

GLEIG, George Robert. Stirling 20.4.1796 — Stratfield Turgis near Winchfield 9.7.1888. Rev. British (Scots) Priest and Historian of Colonial India. Son of George ...

GLEYE, Arthur. Riga 21.10.1867 — Riga 5.2.1937. German (Livonian) Student of IE Linguistics. Born in a middle class family, studied in 1888-91 comparative ...

GOBINEAU, Joseph Arthur, “comte” de. Ville d’Avray 1816 — Turin 1882. French Diplomat, Iranian Scholar and Theoretician of Pseudo-Scientific Racism. Son of a ...

GÖBL, Robert. Vienna 4.8.1919 — Vienna 8.12.1997. Austrian Numismatist. Professor in Vienna. After gymnasium joined Wehrmacht 1938, participated in the WW ...

GOBLET D’ALVIELLA, Eugène, comte. Bruxelles 10.8.1846 — Bruxelles 9.9.1925. Belgian Scholar of Comparative Religion with special interest in India and Egypt, Lawyer and ...

GODARD, André. Chaumont 21.1.1881 — Paris 31.7./2.8.1965. French Architect and Archaeologist of the Near East, Afghanistan and Iran. Studies at École des Beaux-Arts, ...

GODARD, Yedda (née Reuilly). 1889 — 4.8.1976. Frenchwoman, Wife and Assistant of —> A. G. Together with her husband in Afghanistan (where copied Bamiyan ...

GODINHO, Manuel. Montalvão 1630 (1632?) — Loures 1712. S.J. Portuguese Priest and Missionary in India. Novice of the S.J. 1645 in Coimbra, joined ...

GODWIN-AUSTEN, Henry Haversham (until 1854 H. H. Austen). Devon 6.7.1834 — 2.12.1923. British Colonial Officer and Scientist in India. Son of Robert A. ...

GOETZ, Hermann. Karlsruhe 17.7.1898 — Heidelberg 8.7.1976. German Art Historian, long time in India. Son of Herman G., director of Badische ...

GOGERLY, Daniel John. London 25.8.1792 — buried Colombo 6.9.1862. British Methodist Missionary in Ceylon. Son of Daniel and Elizabeth G. Worked ...

GÓIS, Bento de (Benedictus Goes). Vila-Franca-do-Campo, Ilha de S. Miguel (Azores) 1562 — Suzhou, Gansu, China 11.4.1607. S.J. Portuguese Missionary and Traveller in ...

GOLDINGHAM, John. London 1767 — Worcester ?.7.1849. British Astronomer in India. From 1788 assistant to sailor-astronomer Michael Topping (1747–1796) and thus came to ...

GOLDSCHMIDT, Paul. Danzig 19.12.1850 — Galle 7.5.1877. German Indologist. Son of a Kommerzienrat, perhaps related to —> Siegfried G.

GOLDSCHMIDT, Siegfried. Kassel 29.10.1844 — Strassburg 31.1.1884. German Indologist. Professor in Strassburg. Born in a Jewish family, son of Philipp Samson ...

GOLDSTÜCKER, Theodor. Königsberg 18.1.1821 — London 6.3.1872. German Indologist in the U.K. Professor in London. Born in a Jewish family, school ...

GOLDZIHER, Ignász (Ignaz G. Yitzhak Yehuda G.). Székesfehérvár 22.6.1850 — Budapest 13.11.1921. Hungarian Orientalist (Hebrew and Arabic scholar). Professor in Budapest. Born in ...

GOLOUBEW, Victor (Viktor V. Golubev). St.Petersburg 12.2.1878 — Hanoi 19.4.1945. Russian Art Historian in France. Born in an aristocratic family. In ...

GONDA, Jan. Gouda 4.4.1905 — 28.7.1991. Dutch Indologist. Professor in Utrecht. After school in Gouda studies of classical, Indian and Indonesian ...

GONZÁLEZ DE LA CALLE, Pedro Urbano. Madrid 12.11.1879 — México 1966. Spanish Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Son of Urbano G. Serrano, a professor, ...

GOOR, Maria E. Lulius van —> LULIUS VAN GOOR, M. E.

GOOSSENS, Roger. 190? — 1954, when 51. Belgian Philologist. As a student of Boisacq at Bruxelles he concentrated on Greek philology, ...

GORDON, Charles A. 1820 — London 30.9.1899. British Surgeon-General in India. Studies at Edinburgh and St.Andrews (M.D. 1849). From 1841 Assistant Surgeon in ...

GORDON, Douglas Hamilton. 1895 — 16.2.1961. British Officer and Archaeologist. Colonel. Long military career in India. His large collection of stone tools is in the British ...

GORDON, Thomas Edward. Aberdeen 12.1.1832 — 23.3.1914. Sir. British (Scots) Colonial Officer in India. Son of captain William G. and Maria Carlotta Loi ...

GORÉ, Francois Louis Noël. Saint-James (Coutances) 25.12.1883 — Voiron 14.10.1954. French Missionary. Joined Franciscan order and attended the semanry of Missions étrangères, ...

GORRESIO, Carlo Guido Gaspare. Bagnasco (Como) 18.1.1807 — 20.5. 1891. Abate. Italian Indologist. ...

GOŞBUC, George. Hordou 1866 — Bucharest 1918. Romanian Poet and Translator of Sanskrit literature. However, he never learnt Sanskrit, and his ...

GÖSSEL, Heinrich. Leipzig 11.1.1887 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Studied under Windisch in Leipzig before the WW I. Ph.D. 1917 Leipzig.

GOSSELLIN, Pascal-François-Joseph. Lille 6.12.1751 — Paris 8.2.1830. French Merchant, Geographer and Historian of Geography. Born in a family of traders, came early into ...

GOTHEIN, Marie-Louise (née Schröter). Passenheim 12.9.1863 — Heidelberg 24.12.1931. German Authoress interested in India. Daughter of Constantin Schröter, Landesgerichtsrat in Breslau, and Hermine ...

GÖTZE, Albrecht. Leipzig 11.1.1897 — Garmisch-Partenkirchen 15.8.1971. German Orientalist, Semitic and IE Scholar in the U.S.A. Born in a Jewish family as son ...

GOUGH, Richard. London 21.10.1735 — Enfield 20.2.1809. British Antiquarian. Son of Harry G., M.P. and Director of E.I.C. Studies at Cambridge (Corpus Christi), ...

GOVER, Charles Edward. 1835? — Madras 18.9.1872 (not 20.9.). British Indologist and Folklorist in India. Son of Thomas G. of Poplar, Middlesex. From ...

GOVINDA, Lama Anagarika —> HOFFMANN, E. L.

GOWEN, Herbert Henry. Great Yarmouth 29.5.1864 — 1960. British Priest and Oriental Scholar in the U.S.A. Professor in Seattle. Son of Henry Cobb ...

GRACIAS, Bernardino João Salvador. Nova Goa 1.4.1889 — Lisbon 17.9.1966. Portuguese Linguist and Indologist. Born in India, son of José António ...

GRACIAS, Caetano Francisco Xavier. Loutulim, Salcete, India 1865 — ibid. 15.10.1944. Portuguese Physician, Botanist, and Historian. Son of Joaquim Sebastião do Rosario da ...

GRACIAS, João Baptista Amâncio. Loutulim, Goa 8.4.1872 — Goa 20.9.1950. Portuguese Historian. Brother of —> C. F. X. Gracias. Educated in Nova Goa, ...

GRAEFE, Christian-Friedrich von (Russian Fedor Bogdanovič Grefe, Latin Fredericus Graefius). Chemnitz 1.7.1780 — St.Petersburg 12.12.1851. German Linguist in Russia. ...

GRAMMONT, Maurice. Damprichard (Doubs) 15.4.1866 — Montpellier 17.10.1946. French IE and General Linguist, Psycholinguist and Phonetician. Studies at Freiburg (Thurneysen), Berlin (J. Schmidt) ...

GRANDJEAN, J.-M. 18?? — 1???. French Linguist. Student of Regnaud at Lyon (still 1888).

Publications:GRANT-DUFF, James Cunningham (James Grant)

GRANT-DUFF, James Cunningham (James Grant). Banff, Aberdeenshire 8.7.1789 — Fife 23.9.1858. British (Scots) Colonial Officer and Historian in India. Son of John Grant ...

GRANT, Charles (Gaelic Teàrlach Grannd). Aldourie, Inverness-shire 16.4.1746 — London 31.10.1823. British (Scots) Politician interested in Indian Affairs. Son of Alexander Grant, who ...

GRANT, Charles. 1836 — 12.4.1903. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Son of —> Robert Grant, educated at Harrow, Trinity College (Cambridge), and ...

GRANT, James. 1750 — 1808. British Civil Servant in India. Served in Bengal in 1784-89 and was “selected by the Government to superintend ...

GRANT, Robert. Bengal, India 1779 — Dapuri 9.7.1838. Sir. British (Scots) Civil Servant in India. Son of —> Charles Grant, came to England with family ...

GRASBERGER, Lorenz (Laurentius). Hartpennig/Bayern 9.6.1830 — Würzburg 23.1.1903. German Classical Philologist interested in Sanskrit. Studies of classical philology at München. Ph.D. Worked as ...

GRASSMANN, Hermann Günther. Stettin 15.4.1809 — Stettin 26.9.1877. German Indologist and Mathematician. Schoolteacher in Stettin. Son of Justus Günter Gr. a ...

GRAUL, Karl Friedrich Leberecht. Wörlitz bei Dessau 6.2.1814 — Erlangen 10.11.1864. German Indologist (Tamil Scholar) and Lutheran Missionary. Son of a ...

GRAY, Basil. London 21.7.1904 — Oxford 10.6.1989. Art Historian specialized in Indian, Iranian, and Chinese Art. Son of an army surgeon, educated at ...

GRAY, James. 18?? — 19??. British Indologist (Pāli Scholar). Taught at Rangoon High School in Burma.

Publications: The Dhammapada, translated from Pāli. Rangoon 1881.

– Elements of Pāli Grammar. Rangoon 1883; First Pāli Delectus or Companion Reader ...

GRAY, Louis Herbert. Newark, N.J. 10.4.1875 — New York 18.8.1955. U.S. Indologist, Iranian Scholar and Linguist. Professor in New York. Studies ...

GREAVES, Edwin. 18?? — 19??. British Missionary in India. Educated in Islington and Western College. Served London Missionary Society in N.W.P. Principal of ...

GREEN, Alexander. 1888 — 19??. U.S. Linguist. Studies at Columbia University, apparemtly also in Germany. Ph.D. Instructor in German at University of Illinois ...

GREENOUGH, James Bradstreet. Portland, Maine 4.5.1833 — 11.10.1901. U.S. Classical Scholar and Linguist interested in Sanskrit. Professor at Harvard. After Boston Latin School ...

GREFE, Fedor Bogdanovič —> GRAEFE, Ch.-Friedrich

GRÉGOIRE, Antoine. Louvain 26.6.1871 — Uccle 2.5.1955. Belgian Iranian Scholar, Linguist and Phonetician. Professor in Liège. Studies at Liège (dr. philol. class. 1893), ...

GRELLMANN, Heinrich Moritz Gottlieb. Jena 7.12.1756 — Moscow 13.10.1804. German Cultural Historian, Statistician and Pioneer of Gipsy Studies. Professor at Göttingen. After school ...

GREN, Erik. Karlstadt 3.10.1904 — Uppsala 26.11.1959. Swedish Historian and Numismatician. Librarian in Uppsala. From 1931 worked in University Library in Uppsala, in ...

GRENARD, Joseph-Fernand. Paris 4.7.1866 — 1942. French Traveller. Companion of Dutreuil de Rhins on his travels of exploration in ...

GREY, William George. Wellington, New Zealand 12.10.1866 — 6.4.1953. British Colonial Officer in India. Son on Major William Robert Grey and Amy Hare. ...

GRIERSON, George Abraham. Glenageary near Dublin 7.1.1851 — Camberley, Surrey 7.3.1941. British (Irish) Indologist. Son of G. A. G., LL.D., Queen’s Printer for ...

GRIERSON, Mrs. (née Lucy Elizabeth Sean Collins). 1854 — Camberley, Surrey 19.2.1943. British (Irish) Woman in India, wife of —> G. A. Grierson. ...

GRIFFIN, Lepel Henry. Walford 20.7.1840 — London 9.3.1908. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry Gr., a clergyman. Educated at Harrow, ...

GRIFFITH, Ralph Thomas Hotchkin. Corsley, Wiltshire 25.5.1826 — Kotagiri 7.11.1906. British Teacher and Translator of Sanskrit Literature. More than fifty years ...

GRIFFITHS, John. Llanfair Coereinion, Mont. 29.11.1837 — Norton, Sherborne 1.12.1918. British (Welsh) Artist in India. Son of Evan Gr. and Mary Evans. Educated ...

GRIGNARD, André. 18?? — 19??. S.J. Rev. Belgian Missionary in India.

Publications: An Oraon-English Dictionary in the Roman characters with numerous phrases illustrative of sense and idiom and notes on tribal customs, beliefs etc. 7+697 p. ...

GRILL, Julius. 10.7.1840 — ?.9.1930. German Indologist and Theologian. Professor of Theology in Tübingen. Studies of theology at Tübingen, also Indology ...

GRIMBLOT, A. Mme. 18?? — 1???. French Indologist, wife of —> P. G. Participated in her husband’s studies and edited his ...

GRIMBLOT, Paul. 18?? — Florence 1871 (or 1870?). French Indologist. Studies of Indology in Paris under Burnouf. From 18?? French Consul ...

GRIMM, Georg. Rollhofen bei Nürnberg 28.2.1868 — Utting am Ammersee 26.8.1945. German Bauddha. Son of a smith, according to the wish of his ...

GRISWOLD, Hervey DeWitt. Dryden NY 24.5.1860 — 15.5.1945. U.S. Missionary interested in Indian Religion. Son of Benjamin Gr. and Laura Eliza ...

GRJUNBERG-CVETINOVIČ, Aleksandr Leonovič. Leningrad 1.3.1930 — 1995. Russian Iranian Scholar, specialist of Pamir languages. Son of official, graduated 1952 from Leningrad Uni­ver­sity. Kand. filol. nauk 1963, ...

GROHMA, Otto. Vienna 4.3.1943 — Paris 4.9.1974. Austrian Indologist. After matriculation in 1962 in Vienna studied there Indology and classical archaeology. ...

GROHMANN, Joseph Virgil. Hainspach/Haňšpach (Bez. Schluckenau) 12.12.1831 — Prague 12.10.1919. Bohemian Teacher interested in Philology. Studies of philology at ...

GRØNBECH, Vilhelm Peter. Allinge 14.6.1873 — Helsingør 21.4.1948. Danish Scholar of Comparative Religion. Born in Bornholm island as the son of “blikkenslager & ...

GROSE, John Henry. Before 1750 — after 1783. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Francis Gr., went to Bombay in 1750. A ...

GROSLIER, Bernard Philippe. Phnom Penh 10.5.1926 — Paris 29.5.1986. French Archaeologist and Historian of South-East Asia. A specialist of Cambodia, but also wrote ...

GROSSET, Joanny. Lyon (Rhône) 1862 — 19??. French Pioneer of the Study of Indian Music. From the university of Lyon, therefore probably a student of ...

GROTEFEND, Georg Friedrich. Munich 9.6.1775 — Hannover 15.12.1853. German Philologist and Historian, the Famous Pioneer of Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies, Decipherer of the Old Persian ...

GROUSSET, René. Aubais, Gard 5.9.1885 — Paris 12.11(9?).1952. French Historian of Asia. After studies at Montpellier started Museum work. Lost his father before ...

GROWSE, Frederic Salmon. 1837 — 19.5.1893. British Civil Servant and Indologist (Hindi Scholar) in India. Son of Robert Gr., educated at Oriel College ...

GRUBE, Elimar Max. Maxheim near Königsberg 31.12.1851 — Dresden 23.5.1891. German Student of Indology. Son of Julius Alexander Gr. and Emilie Schafer. School ...

GRÜBER, Johann. Linz 28.10.1620 — Sárospatak 30.9.1680. S.J. Austrian Missionary and Traveller. After Jesuit gymnasium in Linz joined S.J. in 1641 in Vienna. ...

GRÜNWEDEL, Albert. München 31.7.1856 — Lenggries bei Bad Tölz 28.10. (or 7.11.?) 1935. German Indologist, Tibetologist, Archaeologist and Art Historian. Museum ...

GUBLER(-ITEN), Theophil. 1874 — 1954. Swiss or German Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1902/03 Basel, under Wackernagel Taught Latin, Greek, history, geography and gymnastics ...

GUÉNON, René. Blois 15.11.1886 — Cairo 7.1.1951. French Philosopher and Author interested in Indian philosophy, rather uncritical admirer of the East. Son of ...

GUÉRINOT, Armand Albert. Messon (Aube) 1872 — 1940?. French Indologist. Studied under Regnaud at Lyon, Ph.D. there 1900. Apparently also dr.med. ...

GUERRINI, Pia. 18?? — 19??. Italian. Dr.phil. Living in Ravenna (1910).

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GUETH, Anton Walter Florus (Nyānatiloka Mahāthera). Wiesbaden 19.2.1878 — Colombo/Ceylon 28.5.1957. German Bauddha ...

GUIEYSSE, Georges. Paris 1.1.1869 — 17.5.1889. French Indologist. Son of Eugène G. (d. 1889), sister’s son to a famous engineer-Egyptologist. Educated ...

GUIGNES, Joseph de. Pontoise (Seine-et-Oise) 19.10.1721 — Paris 19.3.1800. French Orientalist, a Pioneer of Sinology and Precursor of Indology. Professor in ...

GULIK, Robert Hans van. Zutphen 9.8.1910 — the Hague 24.9.1967. Dutch Sinologist, Diplomat and Author, started as an Indologist. ...

GULJAMOVA, Rano Hodžiakbarovna. Taškent 20.1.1940 — 11.11.1985. Uzbeki­stanian Indologist (Hindi). Daughter of official. Graduated 1962 Taškent. Kand. filol. nauk 1976. In 1962-85 taught at Oriental Faculty, ...

GUMILEV, Lev Nikolaevič. Carskoe Selo 19.9.(1.10.)1912 — 15.6.1992. Russian Historian of Central Asia. Son of author. Gradiated 1946 Leningrad. Kand. ist. nauk 1948, dr. ist. nauk ...

GUNDERT, Hermann. Stuttgart 4.2.1814 — Calw 25.4.1893. German Missionary and Indologist (Dravidian Scholar). Missionary of Basel Mission in Kerala. Son of ...

GÜNTERT, Hermann Georg Konrad. Worms 5.11.1886 — 23.4.1948. German IE scholar. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of a merchant, school in Weinheim ...

GURDON, Philip Richard Thornhagh. 1863 — 1942. Sir. British Colonial Officer and Ethnographist in India. ...

GURNER, Cyril Walter. 18.1.1888 — 14.8.1960. British Civil Servant and Indologist in India. ...

GUTSCHMID, Alfred Hermann, Freiherr von. Loschwitz bei Dresden 1.7.1831 — Tübingen 2.3.1887. German Historian, Classical Philologist and Oriental Scholar. Professor in Tübingen. Son ...

GUYARD, Stanislas. Frottey-lès-Vesoul (Haute-Saône) 27.9.1846 — Paris 7.9. 1884. French Orientalist, especially Semitic scholar, but with wide interests, including Indology. Son ...

GWYNN, John Peter Lucius. London 22.6.1916 — Bromley, Kent 14.9.1999. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Tudor Gwynn, I.C.S., of Irish background. After studies ...