O’MALLEY, Lewis Sydney Stewart. 1874 — 10.5.1941. British Civil Servant in India. Son of Bryan ...

OBERMILLER, Evgenij Evgen’evič. Petergof (Petrodvorec) 29.10.1901 — 3.6.1935. Russian Indologist and Tibetan Scholar. Dr. 1935. Worked in St.Petersburg / Leningrad. Son ...

OBRY, Jean-Baptiste-François. Villers-Bretonneux (Somme) 17.9.1793 — 1871. French Literate interested in Indology and Religions. Worked as attorney and judge in Amiens. “Juge honoraire, ...

ODÉ, Arend Willem Mauritz. 18?? — 19??. Dutch Student of IE Linguistics. Ph.D. 1924 Leiden.

Publications:

ODORICO DI PORDENONE. 1265/74/86 — Udine 14.1.1331. Italian Franciscan and Traveller in Asia. From Pordenone in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Wrote a famous account of ...

OELER, Jakob. 18?? — 19??. German Student of IE Linguistics. Ph.D. 1916 Marburg.

Publications:

OERTEL, Hanns. Geithain, Sachsen 20.4.1868 — Munich 7.2.1952. German Indologist, for a while in the U.S.A. Professor in New Haven and ...

OESTERLEY, Hermann. Göttingen 14.6.1833 — Breslau 2.2.1891. German Librarian and Scholar of Literature. Son of Ferdinand Oe., the mayor of Göttingen. Studies at ...

OGDEN, Charles Jones. 10.12.1880 — 10.12.1955. U.S. Indologist. Ph.D. 1909 Columbia University, New York, in classical philology. Being wealthy he did ...

OGLE, Marbury Bladen. Howard Co., MD 23.8.1879 — Minneapolis, MN 25.5.1964. U.S. Classical Scholar also interested in Sanskrit and IE Linguistics. Professor in ...

OL’DENBURG, Sergej Fedorovič (Serge d’Oldenbourg). Bjankino, Zabajkal’skoj obl. (now Tšita obl., Nerčinsk. raion) 14.(26.)9.1863 — 28.2.1934. Russian Indologist and Art Historian. ...

ÓLAFSSON, Jón (Jan), called Bøsseskytte and Indíafari. “Svarthamri í Álftafirði við Ísafjarðardjúp” 1593 (or 29.8.1596) — 1679. Icelandic Traveller in India, in the ...

OLBERS, Ernst Gustaf Ferdinand. Skara 8.11.1837 — Stockholm 25.10.1919. Swedish Priest interested in Sanskrit. Son of the District Judge ...

OLDENBERG, Hermann. Hamburg 31.10.1854 — Göttingen 18.3.1920. German Indologist. Professor in Kiel and Göttingen. Son of Friedrich O., a minister, and ...

OLDHAM, Charles Evelyn Arbuthnot William. 15.9.1869 — 18.11.1949. British (Irish) Scholar and Civil servant in India. I.C.S. 1885-1919. Son of Charles ...

OLDHAM, Charles Frederick. Liverpool 2.1.1832 — Great Bealings, Suffolk 25.3.1913 (or New Zealand 1913/14). British Physician and Indologist. Surgeon-Major (1873) and ...

OLDHAM, William Benjamin. Monkstown, Dublin 16.4.1845 — Christchurch 1916. British (Irish) Civil Servant in India. “Son of Thomas Wilson Oldham, educated at Kingstown ...

OLESEN, Elof. 17.8.1877 — 23.9.1939. Danish Indologist. From 1895 studieed at Copenhagen classics and Sanskrit (Fausbøll). In 1903-25 Assistant of D. Andersen as coeditor of Sørensen’s Index, then at the C.P.D. in Copenhagen ...

OLIPHANT, Samuel Grant. 1864 — 1936. U.S. Indologist. Apprently student of Bloomfield at Johns Hopkins. Ph.D. Taught at Parsons College, Philips Exeter, Washington and Jefferson College, Johns Hopkins University, and Olivet College, from ...

OLIVEIRA, João de. Daman 1595 — after 1641. S.J. Portuguese (or Indian?) Priest and Missionary in Ladakh and India. Joined Jesuits when 17 ...

OLIVER, Revilo Pendleton. Corpus Christi TX 7.7.1908 — Urbana IL 20.8.1994. U.S. Classical Scholar and Racist Publisher. After high school in Illinois he ...

OLLIVIER-BEAUREGARD, Gratien-Michel. 1814 (or 1817?) — Paris 14.1.1901 (when 87, – H.C.). French Anthropologist and Oriental Scholar, in the 1890s President of the ...

OLMSTEAD, Albert Ten Eyck. Troy, NY 23.3.1880 — Chicago 11.4.1945. U.S. Oriental Scholar (Assyriologist and Historian). Professor in Chicago. ...

OLSCHAK, Blanche Christine. Vienna 24.7.1913 — Zürich 25.6.1989. Austrian Journalist and Tibetan Scholar in Switzerland. Studied Political Science at Graz (Ph.D. ...

OLSHAUSEN, Justus. Hohenfelde, Holstein 9.5.1800 — Berlin 28.12.1882. German Orientalist and Theologian. Professor in Kiel and Königsberg. Son of J.W.O., a ...

OLTRAMARE, Jean Paul Gamaliel. Genève 6.4.1854 — Genève 22.10.1930. Swiss Indologist and Scholar ...

OMAN, John Campbell. Calcutta 1841 — 31.5.1911. British Indologist and Scholar of Religion. Son of John O., a planter, and Maria ...

ONDAATJE, Matthew Jurgen. 1??? — 1???. Rev. Dutch Priest in Ceylon and Batavia in the 18th century. Proponent of Colombo, alter clergyman in Batavia. Published ...

OPPERT, Gustav Salomon. Hamburg 30.7.1836 — Berlin 17.3.1908. German (Jewish) Indologist in India. Brother of —> J. O. and Ernst Jacob O. ...

OPPERT, Jules (Julius O.). Hamburg 9.7.1825 — Paris 20/21.8.1905. German (Jewish) Assyriologist in France (naturalised 1854), originally also interested in Sanskrit. ...

ORANSKIJ, Iosif Mihajlovič. Petrograd 24.4./3.5.1923 — Leningrad 16.5.1977. Russian Iranian Scholar. Son of official. In 1941-45 in the army, wounded. Graduated ...

ORAZIO DELLA PENNA DI BILLI, Francesco (Franciscus Horatius a Pennabilli; lay Olivieri). Pennabilli 1680 — Patan, Nepal 20.7.1745. Count. Italian Capuchin ...

ORIANNE, Georges-Barthélemy. 1802 — 1854. French Colonial Servant and Indologist interested in Indian law. Served in Chandernagore, from 1841 conseilleur à ...

ORLICH, Leopold von. Stallupönen (now Nesterov in Kaliningrad oblast) 30.6.1804 — London 2.6.1860. German Officer, Traveller and Historian. Son of a Prussian officer, ...

ORME, Robert. Anjengo, Travancore 25.12.1728 — Great Ealing (London) 13.1.1801. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Historiographer of the E.I.C. “Son of ...

ORTA, García d’ (G. de Orta, ab Horto, del Jardin; Anrique de Orta). Castelo de Vide 1501? — 1568 (or at latest 1572). ...

ORTERER, Georg (1901 Ritter von O.). Wörth bei Erding 30.10.1849 — Munich 5.10.1916. German Student of Indo-Iranian, then Teacher and Bavarian Politician. Son ...

ORVILLE, Albert d’ (le Comte d’Orville, Dorville). Brussels 12.8.1621 — Agra 8.4.1662. S.J. Belgian Missionary. Son of a nobleman, joined Jesuits in 1646. ...

OSIPOV, Aleksandr Mihajlovič. Karsunsk. u. Simbirsk. gub. 11.(23.)8.1897 — 19.2.1969. Russian Historian of India. Son of a farmer. Graduated 1926 from Moscow. Kand. ...

OSSOWSKI, Juliusz Jan. Gdansk 4.11.1855 — Königsberg 4.2.1882. Polish Student of Indo-Iranian Linguistics. Son of Henryk O. (d. 1868), a smith, and Marianna ...

OSTER, Ludwig. Mannheim 27.3.1888 — 19??. German Student of Indology. Son of post master, Geh. Oberpostrat Ludwig O. After school in Berlin, gymnasium ...

OSTHOFF, Caspar Carl Heinrich Gottfried Emil Franz Hermann. Billmerich, Westf. 18.4.1847 — Heidelberg 7.5.1907. German IE Scholar. Professor in Heidelberg. Son of Franz O., an estate owner, and Lisette Theodore Birnberg. Studies at Bonn, then ...

OŠTIR, Karel. Arnače 13.10.1888 — Ljubljana 27.12.1973. Yugoslavian (Slovenian) IE Linguist. From 1909 studied Linguistics at Graz and Vienna, 1913-14 in St.Petersburg. After ...

OTRĘBSKI, Jan. Pilica 8.12.1889 — Poznań 25.4.1971. Polish IE Scholar. Professor in Vilnius and Poznań. Educated in Kielce, studies at Warsaw ...

OTTO, Rudolf Louis Karl. Reine, Hannover 25.9.1869 — Marburg 6.3.1937. German Lutheran Theologian and Scholar of Religion. Professor in Marburg. Son ...

OUSELEY, Joseph Walker Jasper. Limerick 21.6.1800 — ?.11.1889. British Colonial Officer and Oriental Scholar in India. Colonel. Son of ...

OVSJANIKO-KULIKOVSKIJ, Dmitrij Nikolaevič (Ukr. Dmitro Mikolajovič O.-K.). Kahovka, Tavrida guv. 23.1.(4.2.)1853 — Odessa 9.10.1920. Ukrainian Linguist, Indologist and Critic. Professor in ...