- NAHUCRIŠVILI, Grigorij Lukič
NAHUCRIŠVILI, Grigorij Lukič. v s. Hašmi, Sagaredžojskij raion, Georgia 8.8.1922 — 27.5.1984. Georgian Indo-Iranian Scholar. Son of a farmer. In 1941-46 ...
- NAKAMURA, Susumu Winston
NAKAMURA, Susumu Winston. California 17.3.1908 — Berkeley 15.6.1989. Buddhist Scholar. M.A. Studied Tibetan under Lessing, but never completed his Ph.D. Fl. already 1943 in California. Taught Japanese as Lecturer at Universities of Colorado ...
- ÑĀNAMOLI THERA
ÑĀNAMOLI THERA —> MOORE, Osbert.
- NASILOV, Vladimir Mihajlovič
NASILOV, Vladimir Mihajlovič. Zarajsk, Gub. Rjazan 15.(27.)5.1893 — 20.5.1970. Russian Central Asian Scholar, specialist of Uigur (ancient and modern). Son of a priest, graduated 1917 ...
- NAU, Heinrich
NAU, Heinrich. Beltershausen, Marburg 21.9.1881 — 17.5.1956. German Missionary and Student of Indology (Tamil). Missionary in India 1905-14, then priest in Chemnitz and ...
- NAZARI, Oreste
NAZARI, Oreste. Torino 20.5.1866 — 1923. Italian Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Palermo. Student of Gorresio. For a while teacher in ...
- NEBESKY-WOJKOWITZ, René Mario von
NEBESKY-WOJKOWITZ, René Mario von. Velké Hoštice (Gross Hochschütz) Moravia 29.6.1923 — Vienna 9.7.1959. Czech Anthropologist and Tibetologist in Austria. After school ...
- NEGELEIN, Julius von
NEGELEIN, Julius von. Königsberg 17.10.1872 — Erlangen 16.12.1932. German Indologist. Professor in Erlangen. Ph.D. 1897 Königsberg, from 1899 PD there. Later ...
- NEHRING, Alfons
NEHRING, Alfons. Bischwitz bei Trebnitz (Niederschlesien; now Biskupice-Oławskie near Trebnica) 12.8.1890 — Würzburg 9.12.1967. German IE Scholar. Professor in Würzburg, in 1938-52 in ...
- NEIL, Robert Alexander
NEIL, Robert Alexander. Glengairn, Ballater, Aberdeenshire 26.12.1852 — 19.6. 1901. British (Scots) Indologist in Cambridge. Son of Robert N., a minister, ...
- NEILL, J. W.
NEILL, J. W. 18?? — 19??. British Colonial Servant. Commissioner in Nagpur. Lecturer in Marathi at University College and Reader of Marathi at SOAS, also Professor of Indian Law at University College in ...
- NEISSER, Walter
NEISSER, Walter. Schweidnitz/Schlesien (now Świdnica) 7.2.1860 — Breslau 16.12.1941. German Indologist. Son of Dr.med. Joseph N. (1814–1890). Ph.D. 1882 Göttingen. Lived ...
- NESSELMANN, Georg Heinrich Ferdinand
NESSELMANN, Georg Heinrich Ferdinand. Fürstenau (now Kmiecin), Kr. Elbing 14.2.(or 24?)1811 — Königsberg 1.7.1881. German Indo-Iranian, Baltic and IE Linguist. Professor ...
- NEUGEBAUER, Otto Eduard
NEUGEBAUER, Otto Eduard. Innsbruck 26.5.1899 — Princeton N.J. 19.2.1990. Austrian Historian of Astronomy and Mathematics in the U.S.A. Son of Rudolph N. In ...
- NEUMANN, Karl Eugen
NEUMANN, Karl Eugen. Vienna 18.10.1865 — Vienna 18.10.1915. Austrian Indologist (Buddhist Scholar) and Bauddha. Living in Vienna. Son of Angelo N., ...
- NEUMANN, Karl Friedrich
NEUMANN, Karl Friedrich (originally Bamberger). Reichmannsdorf near Bamberg 28.12.1793 (?) — Berlin 17.3. or 28.3.1870. German Oriental Scholar. Professor in Munich. Son of ...
- NÈVE, Félix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph
NÈVE, Félix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph. Ath 13.6.1816 — Leuven 23.5.1893. Belgian Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Professor in Louvain. Son of a merchant, family moved ...
- NEVILL, Hugh
NEVILL, Hugh. 19.6.1847 — Hyères, France 10.4.1897. British Colonial Servant and Collector in Ceylon. Came to Ceylon when 17 and served 27 years ...
- NEWALL, D. F.
NEWALL, David J. F. 18?? — 1???. British Colonial Officer in India in the 1850s/60s. Lieutenant-Colonel, in 1882 retired Major General living in the Isle of Wight.
Publications: Wrote four articles about ...
- NEWTON, Henry
NEWTON, Henry. 1??? — 1???. British Colonial Servant in India. Justice at Bombay High Court 1862-71. President of the Bombay Branch of R.A.S. ...
- NICHOLAS, Cyril Wace
NICHOLAS, Cyril Wace (1898–1961). Sri Lankan Scholar of History is himself Sri Lankan and therefore discussed in my (unpublished) index of Sri Lankan scholars.
- NICHOLL, George Frederic
NICHOLL, George Frederic. 1832/33? — 28.7.1913. British Semitic Scholar also interested in Indology. Studies at Balliol College, Oxford, M.A. 1878, Hon. Fellow 1888. As a ...
- NICHOLSON, Alexander B.
NICHOLSON, Alexander B. 1845 — 19??. Rev. Presbyterian clergyman who renounced his ordination to take the post as Principal of Cedar Hill High ...
- NICHOLSON, B. A. R.
NICHOLSON, B. A. R. 1??? — 1???. Britishman, of Bombay Medical Service. Active as early as 1832, serving in Surat and Rajcote (1843). ...
- NICOLSON, Frank Walter
NICOLSON, Frank Walter. Sackville, Nova Scotia 4.11.1864 — 21.12.1?46. Canadian Classical Scholar in the U.S.A. Studies at Mount Allison Wesleyan College (B.A. 1883) ...
- NIEBUHR, Carsten
NIEBUHR, Carsten. Lüdingworth, Holstein 17.3.1733 — Meldorf, Holstein 26.4.1815. German Traveller and Engineer in Danish Service. Son of a farmer, had little education, ...
- NIEDERMANN, Max
NIEDERMANN, Max. Winterthur 19.5.1874 — Neuchâtel 12.1.1954. Swiss Linguist (Classical and IE). Son of a merchant, educated in Winterthur. Studies at Zürich and ...
- NIEUHOFF, Johan
NIEUHOFF, Johan. Uelsen 22.7.1618 — Madagascar 8.10.1672. Dutch Traveller in India in the middle of the 17th century. In 1640-49 in Brazil during ...
- NIKITIN, Afanasij
NIKITIN, Afanasij. Tver around 1433 (?) — Smolensk 1472 or 1475 (?). Russian Traveller in India. A merchant from Tver, he visited Persia ...
- NITTI-DOLCI, Luigia
NITTI-DOLCI, Luigia. Napoli 31.7.1903 — Paris 1.1.1939. Italo-French Indologist in Paris. Daughter of Francesco Nitti, a politician holding important positions in pre-fascist Italy. Educated in ...
- NOBEL, Julius Adolf Johannes
NOBEL, Julius Adolf Johannes. Forst/Lausitz 25.6.1887 — Wehrda bei Marburg 22.10.1960. German Indologist ...
- NOBILE, Riccardo
NOBILE, Riccardo. 18?? — 19??. Italian.
Publications: Notizie sulle sotto-caste nell’India, estratte, ...
- NOBLE, Margaret E.
NOBLE, Margaret E. (Sister Nivedita). 28.10.1867 — Darjeeling 13.10.1911. Irishwoman, follower of Vivekananda. No scholar. Daughter of a Protestant priest. Worked as teacher ...
- NOBLE, P.
NOBLE, Peter S. 18?? — 19??. British, student of Rapson.
Publications: With Rapson: Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein. Part 3. Oxford 1929
Sources: Nothing found.
- NOER, Prince Frederic Christian Charles Augustus Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Count von
NOER, Prince Frederic Christian Charles Augustus Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Count von. Slesvig 16.11.1830 — Noer 25.12.1881. Danish Prince, Officer and Historian, ...
- NÖLDEKE, Theodor
NÖLDEKE, Theodor. Harburg 2.3.1836 — 25.12.1930. German Orientalist (famous Semitic Scholar, also interested in Iranian). Professor in Kiel and Strassburg. Studies at Göttingen, ...
- NOLTE, Hans Josef
NOLTE, Hans Josef. 18?? — 1???. German Student of IE Linguistics. From Paderborn. Ph.D. 1894 Erlangen.
NOORDEN, Carl Friedrich Johannes von
NOORDEN, Carl Friedrich Johannes von. Bonn 11.9.1833 — ?.12.1883. German Historian interested in Sanskrit. Born in a wealthy family. ...
- NORMAN, Harry Campbell
NORMAN, Harry Campbell. Winkleigh, Devonshire 19.12.1878 — 11.4.1913. British Indologist (Pāli Scholar) in ...
- NORONHA E FARO, Annibal Mello de
NORONHA E FARO, Annibal Mello de. 1??? — ??. Brazilian. One Annibal Mello was born in 1893 in Curitiba, but the São Paulo university’s page gives our author under N (uspdigital.usp.br/apolo/apoObterAtividade?cod_oferecimentoatv=22423).
Publications: ...
- NORRIS, Edwin
NORRIS, Edwin. Taunton, Somerset 24.10.1795 — 10.12.1872. British Oriental and Celtic Scholar. Uncle of —> J. Dowson. As young spent ...
- NORSA, Umberto
NORSA, Umberto. Mantova 16.12.1866 — Mantova 5.4.1943. Italian Polyglot Author and Translator. Born in a Jewish family, educated in Mantova, already ...
- NORTON, Ruth
NORTON, Ruth —> ALBRIGHT, Ruth Norton.
- NOUETTE, Charles
NOUETTE, Charles. 1869 — Paris 2.5.1910. French Traveller, the photographer of the Pelliot expedition in Central Asia in 1906-09. After the cossack destruction ...
- NOVIKOVA, Vera Aleksandrovna
NOVIKOV, Nikolaj Ivanovič. Tihvinskoje-Avdotjino near Bronnicy 8.5.(27.4.)1744 — ibid. 12.8.(31.7.)1818. Russian Literate, a leading representative of Enlightenment in Russia. Born in a noble family, educated in Moscow. In 1869 ...
- NOVIKOVA, Vera Aleksandrovna
NOVIKOVA, Vera Aleksandrovna. Moscow 16.2.1918 — 10.4.1972. Russian Indologist, specialist of Bengali. Daughter of an official, graduated 1940 from Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk ...
- NOVOSAD, Martin (Nyānasatta Mahāthera)
NOVOSAD, Martin (Nyānasatta Mahāthera). Vizovice, Moravia 25.1.1908 — Sri Lanka 1984. Czechoslovakian Bauddha. Born in Southern Moravia. In 1935 heard of Buddhism through ...
- NOWOTNY, Fausta
NOWOTNY, Fausta (née Pedain). Hollabrunn 9.4.1903 — 1991. Austrian Indologist. Ph.D. 1942 Vienna (under Frauwallner). Married 1940 with Karl Anton N. ...
- NUNIZ, F.
NUNIZ (Nunes), Fernão. 1??? — 15??. Portuguese Merchant in India. In 1535-37 stayed in Vijayanagar and then wrote an account, including a short ...
- NURMEKUND, Pent.
NURMEKUND, Pent. Kilingi near Pärnu 16.12.1906 — Tartu 26.12.1996. Estonian Linguist and Oriental Scholar, specialized in Chinese and Indian languages and literatures. Born ...
- NYĀNAPONIKA
NYĀNAPONIKA —> FENIGER, S.
- NYĀNATILOKA
NYĀNATILOKA —> GUETH, A.
- NYBERG, Henrik Samuel
NYBERG, Henrik Samuel. Söderbärke/Dalarne 28.12.1899 — Uppsala 9/10.2. 1974. Swedish Semitic and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Uppsala. Born in humble conditions ...
- NYERUP, Rasmus
NYERUP, Rasmus. Nyrup 12.3.1759 — Copenhagen 28.6.1829. Danish Scholar interested in India. Son of Christen Rasmussen, a poor villain. In 1773 came to ...
