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RAABE, Christine Henriette. Utrecht 1878 — 1959. Dutch Student of Indology. Daughter of Hendrik Raabe and Christina Henriette Raabe (née Marth). Studies under ...

RABE, Carl. Breslau 1814 — 18??. German Student of Indology. Son of a farmer, educated in Breslau. Ph.D. Breslau 1845 (under Stenzler). Could ...

RABIN, Chaim Menachem. Giessen 22.11.1915 — Jerusalem 13.5.1996. Israeli (born in Germany) Linguist and Semitic Scholar. Son of Israel and Martle Rabin. In ...

RADCLIFFE-BROWN, Alfred Reginald (born A. R. Brown). Birmingham 17.1.1881 — London 24.10.1955. English Anthropologist. Son of Alfred Brown (d.1886), a manufacturer’s clerk, and ...

RAFFLES, Thomas Stamford (Sir Stamford). on sea near Jamaica 6.7.1781 — near London 5.7.1826. English Colonial Servant and Scholar. Born on board of ...

RAGOZIN, Zenaide Alekseevna. 1835 — 1924. Russian Traveller and Authoress of Popular Histories. Travelled much in Europe, in 1874 emigrated to the U.S.A. ...

RAHDER, Johannes. Loeboeg Begalong, Sumatra 27.12.1898 — 3.3.1988. Dutch Japanologist and Buddhist Scholar in the U.S.A. Studies in 1917-24 at Leiden, ...

RAHMANN, Rudolph. Niederense, Westfalen 20.9.1902 — Troisdorf 23.9.1985. SVD. German Ethnologist. Catholic Priest. Studies in the Netherlands and at Missionshaus St.Gabriel in Mödling ...

RAMOS DE ANDRÉS, Justo. 1??? — 19??, fl. in the 1930s. Spanish Linguist. Taught Sanskrit in Madrid from 1934 and still in the ...

RAMPOLLA DEL TINDARO, Mariano. 1893 — 1945. Monsignor. Italian Indologist. Sudent of O. Nazari. From 1933 taught Sanskrit at the “Pontif. ...

RAMSTEDT, Gustaf John. Tammisaari 22.10.1873 — Helsinki 25.11.1950. Finnish Altaic Scholar. Studies of classics, Sanskrit (under Donner and Reuter) ...

RANDLE, Herbert Niel. Bombay 19.10.1880 — 8.7.1973. British Indologist. Civil servant (teacher) in ...

RANKE, Kurt. Blankenburg, Harz 14.4.1908 — Stadensen bei Uelzen 6.6.1985. German Germanist interested in IE Linguistics. Professor in Kiel and Göttingen. Son of ...

RAPSON, Edward James. Leicester 12.5.1861 — Cambridge 3.10.1937. British Indologist. Professor in Cambridge. ...

RASK, Rasmus Christian. Brændekilde near Odense 22.11.1787 — Copenhagen 14.11.1832. Danish Linguist and Traveller, also interested in Sanskrit and Old Iranian. ...

RASMUSSEN, Harald. Haderslev 28.8.1853 — Copenhagen 25.12.1904. Danish Schoolteacher and Oriental Scholar. Son of a minister and scholar of Danish, educated in Copenhagen. ...

RAU, Heimo. Breslau 30.12.1912 — Filderstadt 30.12.1993. German Art Historian and Indologist. Long time in India. Son of Ernst Rau and ...

RAU, Wilhelm. Gera 15.2.1922 — Gera 29.12.1999. German Indologist. Professor in Marburg. Studies at Leipzig under Weller and, after coming to ...

RAVENSHAW, Edward Cockburn. 1804 —?.4.1877. British Civil Servant in India. Son of John Goldsborough R. (1777–1854), the chairman of E.I.C., and Hannah Bond. In ...

RAVERTY, Henry George. Falmouth, Cornwall 31.5.1825 — Grampound Road, Cornwall 20.10.1906. British Colonial ...

RAWLINSON, George. Chadlington, Oxfordshire 23.11.1812 — Canterbury 6.10.1902. Rev. Canon. British Classical Scholar and Historian. Son of Abraham Tyson R. and Eliza Creswicke, ...

RAWLINSON, Henry Creswicke (Sir Henry). Chadlington Park, Oxfordshire 11.4.1810 — London 5.3.1895. Bart. British Pioneer of Near Eastern Archaeology. Brother of ...

RAWLINSON, Hugh George. Middlesbrough 12.5.1880 — Isle of Wight ?.6.1957. British Civil Servant and Historian in India. Son of Rev. George ...

RAWSON, Joseph Nadin. Hyson Green Radford, Nottinghamshire 8.5.1880 — Calcutta 19.4.1940. British Scholar of Religion. Son of Joseph R. ...

RAWSON, Philip Stanley. Middlesborough 13.1.1924 — 6.11.1995. British Artist and Art Historian. Son of Stanley Walter Rawson ja Phyllis Adeline Bargate. Studies at ...

REA, Alexander. 17.10.1858 — Bangalore 4.2.1924. British (Scottish) Archaeologist and Photographer in India. Arrived at India in 1882 and became Assistant ...

RECZEK, Józef. 16.2.1936 — 13.2.1988. Polish Indo-European, Slavonic and Iranian Linguist. Studies at Krakow in 1953–59. Taught at Krakow University as Docent.

REES, John David. 16.12.1854 — 2.6.1922. First Baronet (1919). British Civil Servant in India. “Son of Lodwich William Rees, educated at Cheltenham. Entered ...

REEVE, William. 1794 — Bristol 1850. British Missionary in India. Born in Northern England. Ordained 1816, married and left for India. Worked for ...

REGAMEY, Constantin (Konstanty). Kiev 15.(28.)1.1907 — Lausanne 27.12.1982. Polish/Swiss Indologist, Tibetan and Buddhist Scholar and Componist. Professor in Lausanne and Fribourg. ...

REGNAUD, Paul. Mantoche, Haute-Saône 19.4.1838 — Sanary-sur-Mer 18.11.1910. French Indologist. Professor in Lyon. Studies at Paris under Bergaigne. Diplom of É.P.H.É. ...

REGNIER, Jean-Auguste-Adolphe. Mainz 7.7.1804 — Fontainebleau 20.10. 1884. French Indologist. Born in a ...

REHATSEK, Edward. Illack (now Ilok in Croatia) 3.7.1819 — Bombay 11.12.1891. Hungarian Oriental Scholar in India. Son of the forest inspector of princess ...

REICHELT, Hans. Baden bei Wien 20.4.1877 — Ibid. 11/12.5.1939. Austrian Indo-Iranian Scholar. Professor in Graz. Son of the owner of a ...

REINAUD, Joseph-Toussaint. Lambesc (Provence) 4.12.1795 — Paris 14.5.1867. Abbé. French Oriental (Arabic and Persian) Scholar. Professor in Paris. After seminary in ...

RELAND, Adriaan (Hadrianus Relandus). De Rijp, North Holland 17.7.1676 — Utrecht 5.2.1718. Dutch Oriental Scholar. Professor in Utrecht. After a short time as ...

REMPIS, Christian Herrnhold. 1901 — 1972. German Iranian and Persian Scholar. Professor at Tübingen (für Iranistik und Islamwissenschaft). Also interested in Pahlavi.

REMUSAT —> ABEL-REMUSAT.

REMY, Arthur Frank Joseph. Elberfeld 26.6.1871 — 24.10.1954. U.S. (of German Origin) Germanic Scholar interested in Indo-Iranian. Professor in ...

RENAUDOT, Eusèbe. Paris 20.7.1646 — Paris 1.9.1720. Abbé. French Theologian and Oriental Scholar. Born as the eldest of the 14 children of a ...

RENNEL, James. Chudleigh, Devonshire 3.12.1742 — London 29.3.1830. British Colonial Officer and Geographer in India. Son of Captain John R. (of artillery), who died in ...

RENOU, Louis Marie Joseph. Paris 28.10.1896 — Vernon (Eure) 18.8.1966. French Indologist. Professor in Paris. School and studies in Paris. The ...

REUTER, Julio Natanael. Turku 7.1.1863 — Helsinki 9.1.1934. Finnish Indologist. Professor in Helsinki. Son of the school director Edvin Titus Feodor ...

REVILLA Y MORENO, Manuel de la. Madrid 24(26?).10.1846 — El Escorial 13.9.1881. Spanish Poet, Literary Historian, Philosopher, etc.

RÉVILLE, Albert. Dieppe 3/4.11.1826 — Paris 25.10.1906. French Theologian and Scholar of Religion, a Protestant Priest. Professor in Paris. Son of the Rev. ...

RHENIUS, Karl Theophilus Ewald (Charles Theophilus E. Rh.). Graudenz, West Prussia 5.11.1790 — Tirunelvēli/Palayamkottai 5.6.1838. German Missionary and Tamil Scholar in South India. ...

RHYS DAVIDS, Caroline Augusta Foley. ...

RHYS DAVIDS, Thomas William. Colchester 12.5.1843 — Chipstead 27.12. ...

RIBEIRO, João. Baptized Lisbon 17.5.1622 — ?.11.1693. Portuguese Officer in South Asia. Son of a cap-maker. Left to India as private soldier in ...

RIBEZZO, Francesco. Francavilla Fontana 8.5.1875 — Lecce 19.10.1952. Italian IE Scholar. Professor in Palermo. Educated in Lecce, studies at Naples and Leipzig. Teacher ...

RICE, Benjamin Holt. 28.5.1814 — Bangalore ?.2.1887. Rev. British Missionary in South India, a Kannada Scholar. Worked in the family business, but soon ...

RICE, Benjamin Lewis. Bangalore 17.7.1837 — 10.7.1927. British Schoolteacher and Indologist in India. Born in South India, where his father, —> ...

RICE, Edward Peter. 1846? — 1936. British Missionary and Scholar of Kannaḍa, in India. The youngest son of —> Benjamin Holt ...

RICE, Henry. 1846 — 19??. Rev. British Missionary in South India. Son of —> Benjamin Holt Rice. Studied and ordination in London. Worked ...

RICE, Stanley. 1869 — 1944. Britishman interested in Sanskrit. Of I.C.S., retired before 1924.

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RICHARDSON, Hugh Edward. St.Andrews 22.12.1905 — St.Andrews 3.12.2000. British (Scots) Tibetologist. Son of an army medical officer and grandson of an ...

RICHTER, Paul Oswald. 1873 — 19??. German Student of Indo-Iranian. Ph.D. 1897 Leipzig.

RICKMERS, Mrs. —> DUFF, C. M.

RIDDING, Caroline Mary. Meriden, Warwickshire 30.8.1862 — 9.11.1941. Miss. British Indologist. Daughter of ...

RIEKER, Hans-Ulrich. 1.2.1920 — 26.10.1979. German Bauddha and Student of Yoga. An actor. Studies of Yoga under a Guru in India. Ordained as ...

RIEU, Charles Pierre Henri. Genève 8.6.1820 — London 19.3.1902. Swiss Indologist and Oriental Scholar in the U.K. Professor of Arabic in ...

RIMKA, Albinas. Skerpieviai 16.2.1886 — Vilnius 27.2.1944. Lithuanian Tagore Scholar. In 1911 emigrated to the U.S.A., returned. Taught economy at the universities of ...

RISCH, Ernst. Moscow 9.10.1911 — Kilchberg, Zürich 1.9.1988. Swiss IE and Mycenaean Linguist. Professor in Zürich. Came to Switzerland in 1918. Studies at ...

RISLEY, Herbert Hope. Akeley, Buckinghamshire 4.1.1851 — Wimbledon 30.9.1911. Sir. British Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of ...

RITTER, Pavlo Grigorovič (Pavel Grigor’evič Ritter). v s. Čutove, Poltava obl. 5.4.1872 — 17.4.1939. Ukrainian Indologist, Literary Historian, Critic, etc. Professor ...

RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha. Arraiolos 23.6.1809 — Évora 20.2.1879. Portuguese Physician, Colonial Civil Servant and Oriental Scholar, Specialist of Konkani ...

RIVERO GODOY, Francisco María. 18?? — 1???. Spanish Diplomat and Sanskrit Scholar. Grew up in Málaga. From 1877 the first Professor of Sanskrit at Madrid, but after few years ...

RIVERS, William Halse Rivers. Luton near Chatham, Kent 12.3.1864 — Cambridge 4.6.1922. British Physician and ...

RIVETT-CARNAC, John Henry (Harry). London 16.9.1838 — Vevey, Switzerland 11.5.1923. British Colonial Officer and Scholar of Indian Prehistory. Colonel. ...

RIVETTA, Pietro Silvio. 1886 — 19??. Italian.

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ROADARMEL, Gordon Charles. Kharagpur, West Bengal 1932 — Berkeley 15.6.1972. U.S. Indologist (Hindi Scholar). Son of missionary parents, grew up in India, educated ...

ROBERTS, Ernest Stewart. Swineshead, Lincolnshire 1847 — Cambridge 16.6.1912. Rev. British Linguist. Lecturer in Cambridge. Son of Dr. S. B. R. Educated at Boston School, Gonville and ...

ROBERTS, Sydney Gordon. 18?? — 19??. British Civil Servant in South India (1899 already there, 1915-18 District Judge in ...

ROBERTSON, George Scott. London 22.10.1852 — 2.1.1916. Sir. British Physician in India. Served and travelled in the North-West. “Son of Thomas J. R., ...

ROBERTSON, William. Borthwick, Midlothian 19.9.1721 — Edinburgh 11.6.1793. British (Scots) Historian. Son of a minister, himself studied theology at Edinburgh. In 1743-59 minister ...

ROBINSON, Richard H. Carstairs, Alberta 21.6.1926 — Madison 6.8.1970. Canadian Buddhist Scholar in the U.S.A. Professor in Madison. School in Carstairs, ...

ROCA LÓPEZ, Pedro. 18?? — 1???. Spanish. In Sanskrit student of Gelabert y Gordiola, as librarian of Barcelona University gave first Sanskrit teaching there. ...

ROCCA, Vittorio. Livorno 1.10.1862 — 19??. Italian Indologist. Docent in Rome. Studies at Pisa. From 1905 libera docenza in sanscrito at ...

ROCK, Joseph Francis Charles (Josef Franz Karl). Vienna 13.1.1884 — Honolulu 5.12.1962. Austrian-born U.S. Botanist, Geographer and Central Asian Scholar. In 1905 emigrated ...

ROCKHILL, William Woodville. Philadelphia, Pa. 1.4.1854 — Honolulu 8.12.1914. U.S. Diplomat, Traveller, Sinologist, ...

RODET, Léon. 1832? — 1895. French Oriental Scholar and Historian of Mathematics. Studies at École polytechnique, Paris, then living in Paris ...

RODGERS, Charles James. Wilne Mills, Derbyshire 1838 — Lahore 20.11.1898. British Teacher and Oriental Scholar in India. “Educated at Shardlow and Milford in ...

RODRÍGUES PINILLA, Tomás. 1814/15 — 1886. Spanish Historian. Professor at Salamanca.

Publications: ROE, Charles

ROE, Thomas. Low Leyton near Wanstead in Essex 1580/81 — Bath 6.11.1644. Sir. British Diplomat in India. Son of Sir Robert Rowe and ...

ROENAU, Ernst —> Ernst ROSENBAUM

RÖER, Johann (Hans) Heinrich Eduard. Braunschweig 26.10.1805 (or 12.6.?) — Braunschweig 17.3.1866. German ...

ROERICH, Nicholas (Nikolaj Konstantinovič Rërih). St.Petersburg 9.10.1874 — Naggar, Himachal Pradesh 1.3.1948. Russian Painter, lay Archaeologist, Theosoph and Central Asian Traveller. Father of ...

ROERICH, Georg N. (Jurij Nikolaevič Rërih, George Nicolas de Roerich). Okulovka, Valdajskij raion, obl. Novgorod 3.(16.)8.1902 — Moscow 21.5.1960. Russian Tibetologist, ...

ROGER, Abraham (A. Rogerius). Haarlem (?) 1609 — Gouda 1649. Dutch Reformed Priest in India and Indonesia. Studies at Leiden, in ...

ROGERS, George Gordon. 18?? — 1???. British Officer (?) in India. A younger Geogre Gordon Rogers served later on in Nepal, but he ...

ROGERS, Henry Thomas. 1830 — 1898. British Officer in Burma. Captain, served some years in Burma and after returning ...

ROLLAND, Pierre. Santec (Finistère) 2.5.1940 — 28.5.1974. French Indologist. Studies of Indology and comparative linguistics at Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Göttingen (as Alexander ...

ROLLAND, Romain. Clamecy 29.1.1866 — Vézelay 30.12.1944. French author interested in Indian Thought, Personal Friend of Gandhi and Tagore. Also a firm catholic. ...

ROMER, John. 17?? — 18??. British Civil Servant in India. In 1823 he was Government Agent in Surat. Member of the Council in ...

RÖNNOW, Kasten Anders. Stockholm 24.1.1897 — 2.5.1943. Swedish Indologist. Son of a director, school in Stockholm. Studied at Uppsala: Fil.kand. (M.A.) ...

ROOKE, George Harry. 18?? — 19??. British (?) Theosphist. In 1909 in Adyar. In 1939 Major G.H.R. is listed ...

ROOS-KEPPEL, George Olaf (also referred to as Ross-Keppel). 1866 — London ?.12.1921. Sir. British (Scots) Colonial Officer in India. Lieutenant-Colonel. “Joined the Royal ...

ROSE, Horace Arthur. East Grinstead 25.11.1867 — Saint Brélade, Jersey 18.9.1933. British Colonial Servant in India. Son of a merchant. Educated at St.Paul’s ...

ROSEN, Friedrich August. Hannover 2.9.1805 — London 12.9.1837. German Indologist and Oriental Scholar in the U.K. Professor in London. Son of ...

ROSEN, Friedrich. 30.8.1856 — Peking 27.11.1935. German Diplomat and Oriental (Persian and Urdu) Scholar. Son of the diplomat Georg R. (1820–1891), from Lippe, nephew of ...

ROSEN, Friedrich August. Hannover 2.9.1805 — London 12.9.1837. German Indologist and Oriental Scholar in the U.K. Professor in London. Son of ...

ROSENBAUM, Ernst (nom-de-plume Dr. Ernst Roenau). 1888 — 1938?. Austrian. Dr.iuris. Worked in graphic industry and translated narrative literature as E. Roenau (apparently ...

ROSENBERG, F. —> ROZENBERG, F. A.

ROSENBERG, O. —> ROZENBERG, O. O.

ROSS-KEPPEL, George —> G. ROOS-KEPPEL

ROSS, Edward Denison. London 6.6.1871 — Istanbul 23.9.1940. Sir. British Oriental (Persian) Scholar in India. Professor in London. Son of Rev. Alexander J. ...

ROST, Reinhold. Eisenberg, Sachsen-Altenburg 2.2.1822 — Canterbury 7.2.1896. German Indologist and South-East Asian Scholar in the U.K. Son of Karl R., ...

ROTH, Heinrich. Dillingen 18.12.1610 — Agra 20.6.1668. S.J. German Missionary and Precursor of Indology. Son of Konrad Roth, a lawyer, grew ...

ROTH, Walter Rudolf (von). Stuttgart 3.4.1821 — Tübingen 23/24.6.1895. German Indologist. Professor in ...

ROTTLER, Johann Peter. Strassburg (Strasbourg) ?.6.1749 — Madras 24/27.1.1836. German Missionary and Tamil Scholar in India. Educated at gymnasium and university in Strasbourg, ...

ROUSE, William Henry Denham. Calcutta ...

ROUSSEL, Alfred. Méloit des Ondes, Brétagne 17.1.1849 — 6.8.1921. French Indologist in Swizerland. Professor in Fribourg. Studies of Indology in Paris ...

ROVIRALTA BORREL, José. 1856 — 1926. Spanish Physician and Theosophist. In 1889 he was one of the founders of Sociedade Teosófica da Espanha.

ROWLAND, Benjamin, Jr. Overbrook near Philadelphia 2.12.1904 — Cambridge Mass. 3.10.1972. U.S. Art Historian. Professor in Cambridge, Mass. Educated at St.Paul’s School in ...

ROWLANDS, Jane Helen. Menai Bridge, Anglesey 3.4.1891 — Karimganj 12.2.1955. British (Welsh) Missionary in Assam. Daughter of Captain Jabez and Martha Rowlands, grew ...

ROXBURGH, William. Craigie (?), Ayrshire 3. or 29.6.1751 — Edinburgh 18.2.1815. British (Scots) Physician and Scientist in India, Pioneer of Indian Botany. Early ...

ROYLE, John Forbes. Cawnpur (Kanpur) 10.5.1799 — Acton near London 2.1.1858. British (Scots) Physician, Botanist and Scientist in India. “Son of Capt. William ...

ROZENBERG, Fridrik Aleksandrovič (Friedrich Rosenberg). Fellin, Livonia (near Viljandi in Estonia) 1.(13.)3.1867 — 5.6.1934. Russian (German of Livonia) Iranian Scholar. Graduated ...

ROZENBERG, Otton Ottonovič (Otto Rosenberg). Friedrichstadt, Kurland (Jaunjelgava, Latvia) 7.7.1888 — Tallinn 26.11.1919. Russian Buddhologist. Son of city archivist Otto R. ...

ROZWADOWSKI, Jan Michał. Czarna near Tarnów 7.12.1867 — Warsaw 14.3.1935. Polish IE and Slavic Linguist and Gipsy Scholar. Professor in Cracow. ...

RUBEN, Walter. Hamburg 26.12.1899 — Berlin 7.11.1982. German (East) Indologist. Professor in Berlin. Son of Albert R., a merchant, and Emmi ...

RÜCKERT, Friedrich. Schweinfurt 16.5.1788 — Neusess bei Coburg, Franken 31.1.1866. German Poet, Translator, Oriental Scholar and Indologist. Professor in Erlangen and ...

RUDENKO, S. I. 1885 — 1969. Russian Art Historian and Archaeologist. A specialist of Scythian antiquity.

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RÜDIGER, Johann Christian Christoph. Burg near Magdeburg 9.5.1751 — 21.10.1822. German Cameralist, from 1791 Professor ord. at Halle. Also a linguist. He was ...

RUDIN, Semën Gesselevič. Leningrad 21.7.1929 — 22.8.1973. Russian Indologist (Tamil Scholar). Son of an official. In 1947-52 studied Indology in Leningrad. ...

RUDNICKI, Mikołaj. Sokołow Podlaski 6.12.1881 — Puszczykowo 28.6.1978. Polish Linguist. Studies at Krakow. PD 1911. From 1919 Professor of IE Linguistics at Poznań ...

RUELL (de Ruël), Joannes. Leiden 1659/60 or 1663/64 — Colombo ?.5.1701. Dutch Priest in Ceylon, worked there as predikant in Colombo from 1692 ...

RUNDALL, Frank Montagu. 18.5.1851 — 25.4.1930. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of General Francis Hornblow R. (1823–1908), Irrigation Engineer in India. “Educated ...

RUPP, Joseph. Hamberg 14.3.1822 — 1894. German Priest and Schoolteacher interested in Indology. Ordained priest in 1845. Professor of Gymnasium in Freising. Benfey ...

RUTGERS, Antonie. Groningen 8.3.1805 — the Hague 18.10.1884. Dutch Oriental Scholar and Reformed Theologian interested in Sanskrit. Professor in Leiden. Son of a ...

RYDER, Arthur William. Oberlin, Ohio 8.3.1877 — Berkeley 21.3.1938. U.S. Indologist. Professor in Berkeley. Graduated 1894 from Phillips Academy in Andover ...

RYLANDS, Cyril Alexander. 18?? — 19??. British Indologist. In the early 1920s studied at Cambridge. In the 1930s/1950s Lecturer in Sanskrit ...

RYSIEWICZ, Zygmunt. Krosno 5.1.1911 — Warsaw 14.4.1954. Polish Indologist and Linguist. From 1929 studies of Polish, Slavics and philosophy at Jan ...