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

GAASTRA, Dieuke. Dordrecht 18?? — 19??. Mrs. Dutch Indologist. Student of Caland. Ph.D. 1906 Utrecht. One ...

GABAIN, Annemarie von. Mörchingen 4.7.1901 — Berlin 15.1.1993. German Central Asian (Turcic) Scholar. Professor in Hamburg. Daughter of an officer with ...

GABELENTZ-LINSINGEN, Hans Albert von der. Altenburg 14.11.1834 — Weimar 5.3.1892. German Naturalist ...

GABELENTZ, Hans Conon von der. Altenburg (Thüringen) 13.10.1807 — Lemnitz bei Triptis (Thüringen) 3.9.1874. German Linguist. Son of ...

GABELENTZ, Hans Georg Conon von der. ...

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

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 — Ealing, London 14.3.1950. Sir. British Civil Servant and Assamese Scholar in India. Son ...

GALANOS, Demetrios (Δημήτριος Γαλανός). Athens 1760 — Varanasi 3.5.1833. Greek Indologist in India. Son of Pantaleon ...

GALLÉE, Johan Hendrik. Vorden, Bronckhorst 9.9.1847 — Utrecht 3.2.1908. Dutch Linguist. Professor of IE Philology at Utrecht. Son ...

GALLETTI DI CADILHAC, Arthur Mario Collier. London 1877 — 1967. British (with Italian background) Civil Servant in India. Son of Count ...

GALLOIS-MONTBRUN, Joseph Armand. Monaco 19.3.1793 — Nice 21.12.1875.

GALVÃO, António (A. Galvano). Lisbon 1490? — Lisbon 11.3.1557. Portuguese Historian of Colonial India. Son of the chronicler ...

GAMPERT, Vilém (Wilhelm). Prague 29.6.1902 — Prague 14.3.1987. Czech Indologist. Studied Indology at German University of ...

GANANDER, Christfried. Haapajärvi 21.11.1741 — Rantsila 17.2.1790. Finnish Clergyman, Folklorist and Lexicographer. Son of Rev. Thomas G. (d. ...

GANGULI, Milada. Přerov 10.7.1913 — 2000. Czechwoman in India. Educated in Prague and London, in London met the ...

GARBE, Richard Karl (von). Bredow bei Stettin 9.3.1857 — Tübingen 22.9. 1927. German Indologist. Professor in ...

GARCIA AYUSO, Francisco. Valverde del Camino (V. del Majano) near Segovia 1835 — Madrid 1897. Spanish ...

GARCIN DE TASSY, Joseph-Héliodore-Sagesse-Vertu. Marseille 20.1.1794 — Paris 2.9.1878. French Indologist (Hindi-Urdu Scholar) and Orientalist. Professor ...

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 ...

GARNIER-MOEWES, Katharine von (née Moewes). Berlin 28.4.1863 — Bad Kösen a. d. ...

GARRETT, Herbert Leonard Offley. Cambridge 16.6.1881 ...

GARRETT, John. 8.11.1815 — 20.6.1893. British Methodist Missionary and Clergyman in India. Originally a printer. Came ...

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 ...

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 (now Wąsosz in ...

GARTHWAITE, James Grant Liston. 1833 — Glenelg, ...

GĄSIOR, Pawel. 19?? — 199?. Polish Indologist (Hindī). ...

GATELLIER, Marie. 4.4.1940 — 9.5.1993. French Art Historian of Burma and Sri Lanka

GATTI, Riccardo. 18?? — 19??. Italian Linguist. A ...

GATTI, Stanislao. Naples 1820 — Benevento 4.2.1870. Italian Philosopher – one of the Napoletan Hegelians – also interested ...

GAUTHIOT, Robert. Paris 13.6.1872 — Val-de-Grâce 11.9.1916. French Linguist, specialist in Iranian and Uralic, a Pioneer ...

GAWROŃSKA, Antonina (née Miłkowskaja). 1864? — 1944?. Polish Teacher and Translator. Mother of —> Andrzej G. Married with ...

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.

Publications:

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.

Publications:

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, 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 ...