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  • NAHUCRIŠVILI, Grigorij Lukič

    NAHUCRIŠVILI, Grigorij Lukič. Hašmi, Sagarejo district, Georgia 8.8.1922 — 27.5.1984. Georgian Indo-Iranian Scholar. Son of a farmer. In 1941-46 in army. Graduated ...

  • NAKAMURA, Susumu Winston

    NAKAMURA, Susumu Winston. California 17.3.1908 — Berkeley 15.6.1989. U.S. Buddhist Scholar. M.A. Studied Tibetan at Berkeley under Lessing (M.A.), but never completed his Ph.D. Taught Japanese as Lecturer at ...

  • NALBANDJAN, Georgi Mkrtichi

    NALBANDJAN, Georgi Mkrtichi (Russian Georgij Mkrtyčevič N.). Čita 5.1.1926 — Yerevan 5.11.1998. Armenian Iranian Scholar. Son of a worker. Graduated 1951 in Erevan. Kand. filol. nauk 1955, Docent 1961, ...

  • ÑĀNAMOLI THERA

    ÑĀNAMOLI THERA —> MOORE, Osbert.

  • NASILOV, Vladimir Mihajlovič

    NASILOV, Vladimir Mihajlovič. Zarajsk, Gub. Rjazan 15.(27.)5.1893 — Moscow 20.5.1970. Russian Central Asian Scholar, specialist of Uigur (ancient and modern). Son of a priest, educated ...

  • NAU, François

    NAU, François-Nicolas. Thil (Meurthe-et-Moselle) 13.5.1864 — Paris 2.9.1931. French Catholic Priest and Syrologist. Son of the elder François-Nicolas Nau and Marguerite Longueville. After primary school in Longwy attended petit ...

  • NAU, Heinrich

    NAU, Heinrich (Henry). Beltershausen, Marburg 21.9.1881 — Greensboro, NC 17.5.1956. German Lutheran Missionary and Student of Indology (Tamil). Son of a farmer, studied at ...

  • NAZARI, Oreste

    NAZARI, Oreste. Turin 20.5.1866 — 1923. Italian Indologist and Linguist. Professor in Palermo. Student of Gorresio. For a while teacher in ...

  • NEBESKY-WOJKOWITZ, René von

    NEBESKY-WOJKOWITZ, René Mario von. Velké Hoštice (Gross Hochschütz) Moravia 29.6.1923 — Vienna 9.7.1959. Czech Anthropologist and Tibetologist in Austria. Son of ...

  • NECKEL, Hannah
    NECKEL, Hannah. 18?? — 19??. According to her only known publication she was “Frau in Heidelberg.” Most probably she was Hannah Neckel (née von Wink). Wismar ...
  • NEGELEIN, Julius von

    NEGELEIN, Julius von. Königsberg 17.10.1872 — Erlangen 16.12.1932. German Indologist. Professor in Erlangen. Son of an official. After school in Königsberg ...

  • NEHRING, Alfons

    NEHRING, Alfons. Bischwitz bei Trebnitz, Niederschlesien (now Biskupice-Oławskie near Trebnica in Poland) 12.8.1890 — Würzburg 9.12.1967. German IE Scholar. Professor in Würzburg, in ...

  • NEIL, Robert A.

    NEIL, Robert Alexander. Glengairn, Ballater, Aberdeenshire 26.12.1852 — Cambridge 19.6.1901. British (Scottish) Classical Scholar and Indologist in Cambridge. Son of Rev. ...

  • NEILL, John William

    NEILL, John William. 184? — 19??. British Civil Servant in India. Studies at King’s College, London, and Edinburgh. From 1864 served in Central India (1872 in Chhindwara). In 1887 ...

  • NEISSER, Walter

    NEISSER, Walter. Schweidnitz, Schlesien (now Świdnica in Poland) 7.2.1860 — Breslau 16.12.1941. German Indologist. Son of Dr.med. Joseph N. (1814-1890). After ...

  • NELL, Louis

    NELL, Louis. Colombo 26.11.1830 — Chiswick, Middlesex 17.5.1922. British (of Burgher background) Lawyer in Sri Lanka. Son of George Nell and Maria Elizabeth Conderlag (1805–1844). Worked as lawyer and ...

  • NELSON, James Henry

    NELSON, James Henry. London 1838 — 1898. British Civil Servant in India. Studies from 1856 at Cambridge (M.A.), Fellow of King’s College. Barrister-at-law (Middle Temple, 1859). In 1861 left ...

  • NESFIELD, John C.

    NESFIELD, John Collinson. Stratton St.Margaret, Wiltshire 14.8.1836 — Ealing, London 28.6.1919. British Teacher in India. Son of a cleric, Robert Carles N., and Eleanor Dale Collinson. Educated at Highgate Grammar ...

  • NESPITAL, Helmut

    NESPITAL, Helmut Ernst Robert. Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg 4.8.1936 — Berlin 10.5.2001. German Indologist (Hindi Scholar). Professor in Bamberg. Son of Fritz N. und Elfriede Thiel. Grew up in Berlin. Studied at ...

  • NESSELMANN, G. H. F.

    NESSELMANN, Georg Heinrich Ferdinand. Fürstenau, Kr. Elbing (now Kmiecin in Poland) 24.2.1811 — Königsberg 1.7.1881. German Indo-Iranian, Baltic and IE Linguist. ...

  • NEUGEBAUER, Otto

    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., a ...

  • 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 Neumann ...

  • NEUMANN, Karl Friedrich

    NEUMANN, Karl Friedrich (originally Justus Lazarus Bamberger). Reichmannsdorf near Bamberg 28.12.1793 (?) — Berlin 17.3. or 28.3.1870. German Oriental Scholar and Historian. Professor ...

  • NEUMANN, Käthe
    NEUMANN, Käthe. Berlin 14.7.1903 — Emmerich am Rhein 14.8.1989. German Scholar of Religion and former Student of Indology. Daughter of Otto Neumann and his wife Minna. Studies ...
  • NEUMANN, Michael
    NEUMANN, Michael. 1??? — ????. Austrian Student of Indology. Ph.D. 1927 Vienna.
    Publications: Diss. Der Vṛtra-Kampf in der indischen Literatur. Manuscript, Vienna 1927.
  • NÈVE, Félix

    NÈVE, Félix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph. Ath 13.6.1816 — Leuven 23.5.1893. Belgian Indologist and Oriental Scholar. Professor in Louvain (Leuven). Son of merchant Auguste Nève ...

  • NEVILL, Hugh

    NEVILL, Hugh. Tottenham, Middlesex 19.6.1847 — Hyères, France 10.4.1897. British Civil Servant in Sri Lanka. Son of William Nevill and Mary Oridge (d. ...

  • NEWALL, David J. F.

    NEWALL, David John Falconer. Kensington, London 1825 — Isle of Wight 8.3.1901. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of David Rae Newall and Charlotte Janetta Falconer (1801–1831). From c. ...

  • NEWBOLD, Thomas John

    NEWBOLD, Thomas John. Macclesfield, Cheshire 8.2.1807 — Mahabaleshwar 29.5.1850. British Colonial Officer In India. Son of surgeon Francis Newbold (1765–1828) and Hannah Stonehewer (1774–1839). From 1827 in Madras Light ...

  • NEWTON, Edward Payson

    NEWTON, Edward Payson. Lahore 8.7.1850 — Jalalpur, Gujrat dt., Punjab 10.4.1918. Rev. U.S. Presbyterian Missionary in India. Son of Rev. —> John Newton and Elizabeth Popham Janvier (1812–1857). Educated ...

  • NEWTON, Henry

    NEWTON, Henry. Shrewsbury 17.6.1822 — London 20.3.1900. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Henry N., a wharfinger, and his wife Catherine. Educated ...

  • NEWTON, John

    NEWTON, John. Doylestown, PA 1.10.1810 — Murree, Punjab 2.7.1891. Rev. U.S. Presbyterian Missionary in India. M.A. Joined American Presbyterian Ludhiana Christian Mission and arrived at Ludhiana in 1835. From ...

  • 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 Frederick

    NICHOLL, George Frederick. Tipton, Staffordshire 5.11.1832 — 28.7.1913. British Semitic Scholar also interested in Indology. Son of John Nicholls (1811–1893, his sons dropped the final ...

  • NICHOLSON, Alexander B.

    NICHOLSON, Alexander Beaumont. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island 1845 — 1929 or earlier. Rev. Canadian Scholar. Son of Alexander Nicholson. Educated at ...

  • NICHOLSON, B. A. R.

    NICHOLSON, B. A. R. 1??? — 1???. British Physician in Bombay Medical Service. M.D. Active as early as 1832, serving in Bhooj (1836) ...

  • NICHOLSON, James

    NICHOLSON, James. 18?? — 1???. Rev. Wesleyan Missionary in Sri Lanka. Worked in Galle at least from 1867, 1887 still there. Finally retired and married Ellen Osborn.

    Publications: A Pocket Dictionary ...

  • NICHOLSON, Sydney

    NICHOLSON, Sydney. 18?? — 19??. Missionary in India. Worked in Cuddapah (Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh) for London Missionary Society.

    Publications: “Women’s Cloths in the Cuddapa District, South India”, Man 20, ...

  • NICOLSON, Frank W.

    NICOLSON, Frank Walter. Sackville, Nova Scotia 4.11.1864 — Middletown, Middlesex CT 21.12.1946. Canadian Classical Scholar in the U.S.A. Son of Alexander Wylie Nicolson ...

  • NIEBUHR, Carsten

    NIEBUHR, Carsten. Lüdingworth near Cuxhaven 17.3.1733 — Meldorf, Holstein 26.4.1815. German Traveller, Geographer and Engineer in Danish Service. Son of Barthold Niebuhr (1704–1749), ...

  • NIEDERMANN, Max

    NIEDERMANN, Max Jakob. Winterthur 19.5.1874 — Neuchâtel 12.1.1954. Swiss Linguist (Classical and IE). Professor in Basel and Neuchâtel. Son of merchant Jakob N. and ...

  • NIEUHOFF, Johan

    NIEUHOFF, Johan. Uelsen, Grafschaft Bentheim (Germany) 22.7.1618 — Madagascar 8.10.1672. Dutch Traveller in India in the middle of the 17th century. Son of ...

  • NIKITIN, Afanasij

    NIKITIN, Afanasij. Tver 1433 (?) — Smolensk 1472 or 1475 (?). Russian Traveller in India. A merchant from Tver, he visited Persia and ...

  • NITTI-DOLCI, Luigia

    NITTI-DOLCI, Luigia. Naples 31.7.1903 — Paris 1.1.1939. Italo-French Indologist in Paris. Daughter of Francesco Saverio Nitti (1868–1953), a politician holding important positions in pre-fascist Italy ...

  • NOAKES, G. M.

    NOAKES, G. M. 18?? — 19??. Miss. Friend of C. A. F. Rhys Davids. In 1904-05 she transliterated the Pāli text of the Dukapaṭṭhāna from the Thai printed edition for the P.T.S. Then similar ...

  • NOBEL, Johannes

    NOBEL, Julius Adolf Johannes. Forst/Lausitz 25.6.1887 — Wehrda bei Marburg 22.10.1960. German Indologist ...

  • NOBILE, Riccardo

    NOBILE, Riccardo. 1886 — 1930. Italian Interested in Sanskrit. Student of Kerbaker at Naples. Ph.D.

    Publications: ...

  • NOBLE, Margaret E. (Sister Nivedita)

    NOBLE, Margaret Elizabeth (Sister Nivedita). Dungannon, county Tyrone 28.10.1867 — Darjeeling 13.10.1911. Irish follower of Vivekananda. No scholar. Daughter of Samuel Richmond Noble ...

  • NOBLE, Peter S.

    NOBLE, Peter Scott. 17.10.1899 — 12.5.1987. Sir. British Classical Scholar with interest in Indology. Educated in Aberdeen (Fraserburgh Academy). Studies of Classics at Aberdeen (1917-19 in army) and Cambridge ...

  • NOER, Graf von

    NOER, Prince Friedrich Christian Charles Augustus Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Graf von. Slesvig (Schleswig) 16.11.1830 — Noer, Schleswig 25.12.1881. German-Danish Prince, Officer and ...

  • NÖLDEKE, Theodor

    NÖLDEKE, Theodor Eduard. Harburg 2.3.1836 — Karlsruhe 25.12.1930. German Semitic Scholar, also interested in Iranian. Professor in Kiel and Strassburg. Son of Carl ...

  • NOLTE, Hans Josef

    NOLTE, Hans Josef. 1857 — 1???. German Student of IE Linguistics. From Paderborn. Ph.D. 1894 Erlangen.

    NOORDEN, Carl von

    NOORDEN, Carl Friedrich Johannes von. Bonn 11.9.1833 — Leipzig 25.12.1883. German Historian interested in Sanskrit. Born in a wealthy ...

  • NORMAN, H. C.

    NORMAN, Harry Campbell. Winkleigh, Devonshire 19.12.1878 — Benares (Varanasi) 11.4.1913. British Indologist (Pāli ...

  • NORONHA E FARO, Annibal Mello de

    NORONHA E FARO, Annibal Mello de. 1??? — 19??. Brazilian Author. One Annibal Mello was born in 1893 in Curitiba, but the São Paulo university’s alphabetical list gives our ...

  • NORRIS, Edwin

    NORRIS, Edwin. Taunton, Somerset 24.10.1795 — Brompton, London 10.12.1872. British Oriental and Celtic Scholar. Son of a printer. Educated by ...

  • NORRIS, William

    NORRIS, William. 1654? (Wikipedia c. 1658) — on sea 10.10.1702. Sir, First Bart. (1898). British Diplomat. Son of Thomas Norris of Speke Hall, Lancashire, and Katherine Garraway. M.P. for ...

  • 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, Albert Benjamin

    NORTON, Albert Benjamin. Alabama, Genesee county, NY 21.3.1847 — Dhond, Punjab 31.12.1923. Rev. U.S. Methodist Missionary in India. Son of Moses Norton and Sally Ann Lynch, a farming family. ...

  • NORTON, Ruth

    NORTON, Ruth —> ALBRIGHT, Ruth Norton.

  • NOTTROTT, Alfred

    NOTTROTT,  Carl Gustav Rudolf Eduard Alfred. Oppershausen, Thüringen 19.8.1837 — Steinhagen, Westfalen 20.1.1924. Rev. German Lutheran Missionary in India. Studies at Halle, then left to India. During a furlough Ph.D. ...

  • NOUETTE, Charles

    NOUETTE, Charles Georges. Montlhéry near Paris 6.5.1869 — Paris 2.5.1910. French Traveller, the photographer of the Pelliot expedition in Central Asia in 1906-09. ...

  • NOVÁK, Ondřej

    NOVÁK, Ondřej. Prague 10.10.1946 — Vysoké Tatry 19.4.1977. Czech Scholar of Indian History. In 1965-69 studies of Indology, philosophy and history at Prague. Ph.D. 1975.

    Publications: “The ...

  • NOVIKOV, Nikolaj Ivanovič

    NOVIKOV, Nikolaj Ivanovič. Tihvinskoje-Avdotjino near Bronnicky (SE of Moscow) 8.5.(27.4.)1744 — ibid. 12.8.(31.7.)1818. Russian Literate, one of the leading representatives of Enlightenment in Russia. Born in a noble family, ...

  • 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/Ñānasatta Mahāthera). Vizovice, Moravia 25.1.1908 — Sri Lanka 1984. Czechoslovakian Buddha in Sri Lanka. Born in Southern Moravia. In 1935 heard ...

  • NOWAK, Josef

    NOWAK, Josef. 1??? — 19??. German Student of Indology or Comparative Linguistics. Ph.D. 1926 Freiburg i.Br. kotte-autographs.com mentions one Josef N., born Stuttgart 1901, died 1988, who studied at ...

  • NOWOTNY, Fausta

    NOWOTNY, Fausta (née Pedain). Hollabrunn, Niederösterreich 9.4.1903 — 1991. Austrian Indologist. Ph.D. 1942 Vienna (under Frauwallner). Married 1940 Karl Anton Nowotny ...

  • NUNIZ, Fernão

    NUNIZ (Nunes), Fernão. 1500? — 1550?. Portuguese Jewish Merchant in India. In 1535-37 stayed in Vijayanagar and then wrote an account, including a ...

  • NURMEKUND, Pent.

    NURMEKUND, Pent (until 1936 Arthur Roosman). Kilingi near Pärnu 16.12.1906 — Tartu 26.12.1996. Estonian Linguist, Polyglot and Oriental Scholar, specialized in Chinese and ...

  • NUSSBAUM, Louis-Frédéric

    NUSSBAUM, Louis-Frédéric Emmanuel (nom-de-plume Louis Frédéric). Paris 17.12.1923 —Quincy-sous-Sénart near Paris 24.11.1996. French Artist, Art Historian and Writer. Worked as illustrator, travelled in North Africa. Interested in Asia he ...

  • NYĀNAPONIKA

    NYĀNAPONIKA —> FENIGER, S.

  • NYĀNATILOKA

    NYĀNATILOKA —> GUETH, A.

  • NYBERG, H. S.

    NYBERG, Henrik Samuel. Söderbärke, Dalarne 28.12.1889 — Uppsala 9.2.1974. Swedish Semitic and Iranian Scholar. Professor in Uppsala. Born in humble conditions ...

  • NYERUP, Rasmus

    NYERUP, Rasmus. Syrup, Funen 12.3.1759 — Copenhagen 28.6.1829. Danish Scholar interested in India. Son of Christen Rasmussen, a poor villain, and Karen Simonsdatter. ...